How psychiatry marginalizes those who contradict Western norms
Psychiatry employs a biomedical model of disease to define madness. It does so because it reflects a scientific and philosophical tradition of ideas about...
Machine learning fails to identify depression based on neurobiology
Researchers have suggested that machine learning—using artificial intelligence to investigate a complex phenomenon—might be better at identifying which neurobiological measures are important and how...
Paternalism and psychiatry
It seems to me that many doctors who self-select to do postgraduate training in psychiatry are attracted to the profession largely in a quest...
Physical activity improves symptoms of depression and anxiety
A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine finds that physical activity (PA) can improve symptoms of depression, anxiety, and overall psychological distress.
According...
Restless Heart Syndrome: just hearing about psychiatry is enough
As someone who has Complex Trauma and Dissociative Identity from childhood abuse, it is perhaps surprising that I’ve come so far on my healing...