Another Look at Diagnosis
But were we looking at two different disorders on a parallel course through the generations? Or a single genetic vulnerability, expressing differently depending on one’s sex?
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Those Sneaky Conspiracy Theories
It’s not one or the other, it’s about the synergy between them– toxic ideas, with a platform that allows them to spread.
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How Conspiracy Theories Work
Arguing with believers about the merits of a pet conspiracy theory is ordinarily a waste of time. It’s too easy to ignore or discount any evidence that contradicts their beliefs.
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The Sociopath and Self-Disclosure
Sociopathic people can be quite perceptive about others’ desires and motivations– it’s a key to manipulating them
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Psychedelics in Psychotherapy
If you’d paid thousands of dollars in order to travel to a foreign country for a last-ditch, Hail Mary-type grab at lasting relief, wouldn’t you really want it to work?
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Excited Delirium? Ketamine on the Street
Excited delirium is a term widely recognized in emergency medicine yet somehow lacks a single accepted definition.
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Mental Health and Gun Violence
I’m all in favor of wider access to good mental health care, and since drug and alcohol problems are included, I thought this might be an opportunity to point out some serious flaws in this approach.
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Opioids and Mental Health Diagnoses
This goes back to a problem in assessing pain. There’s no physical test for what is essentially a subjective experience.
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Are Video Games Addictive?
Isn’t that a bit like the drinker who insists he’s fine except that he just drinks a whole lot more than other people?
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A System That Isn’t One
It makes little sense to criticize our “system” of mental health care, when it’s only a system in some places. In the national sense, it isn’t a system at all, and never has been.
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Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
In spite of the advances, science still struggles to understand the disease process that underlies most disorders.
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DSM5 – The Great Debaters
In a sense we’re just describing disorders that we only partly understand.
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More on Mental Illness: Genetics
As a general rule, the better the causes of a disease are understood, the more effective the treatments will be.
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