How Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning Works A Review of Adrian Kind's “How Does the Psychiatrist Know?” psychiatrymargins.com/p/how-psychiat…

Disability Rights in East Asia's Democracies 2025 Hybrid, Friday, 11 April eventbrite.com/e/disability-r…

The NEW The BSA Global Histories & Sociology Study Group is organisiing their 1st event: 📌1885 & its Long Shadow: Sexual Offences in Historical Context 📆11 July 2025 ✍🏾cfp by 16 May - see below Dr Wai Lau law-school.open.ac.uk/research/resea…

I am pleased to announce that my new paper in "Area Studies 2.0" has been published online. Hezbollah’s shifting rhetoric reflects not ideological rigidity but institutional adaptation and strategic pragmatism within Lebanon’s flawed consociational system. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Working on paper revision ☻

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Join us for the Transitions Project Launch - 25 June | 16:30 | Stand Campus, King's College London Researchers, policy experts & advocates will discuss the historical development and contemporary debates about psych deinstitutionalisation in Latin America. kcl.ac.uk/events/project…

I give public talks on neurodiversity for Japanese-speaking audiences because I have access to English resources and contacts with people who know much about ND, but I always believe my role should be replaced by more specialised researchers or actually neurodivergent people.

My abstract has been accepted for the BSA Medsoc conference! However I'm not sure I'll be in the UK this autumn...things are highly unpredictable during postdoc hunting.

The 'Japanese style' of deinstitutionalisation and its difference from the Euro-Amerian style has been an oft-mentioned topic in Japanese governmental documents and research repmrts made to react to the international pressure on the 'delay' of Japan's deinstitutionalisation.

🚨 Exciting news! My new book Voices of Neurodiversity: An Inclusive Encyclopaedia is now available for pre-order 📘🎉 It’s out 10 July 2025 via Routledge Books and you can now order it via: 📚 Routledge: shorturl.at/CuMf8 📦 Amazon: shorturl.at/nXRP7 More below 👇🧵

Ruth Benedict’s Obituary for Japanese Culture By C. Douglas Lummis apjjf.org/c-douglas-lumm…

Just started my new role as a Project Assistant Professor at Keio University, working under the Japanese government's Moonshot R&D Goals. I'm primarily engaging in the ethical and social implications of genomic and neurological approaches to child mental health.

Today I gave a talk at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine on my sociological & historical research on autism! I had a valuable exchange with scientiststs and practitioners from Professor Atsushi Senju's lab and got motivated for interdisciplinary collaboration.