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Awais Aftab
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I think the real issue is not whether antipsychotics work or not (they work), but:1) whether patients should be forced to take them (which is a complex ethical issue, not
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1/ The term “disorder” in medicine has always had an uncomfortable relationship with physical injuries & traumatic wounds. Is a gunshot wound to the abdomen a disorder? For many the
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1/ I do think a lot of problems with current practices in psychiatry have to be do with system issues, however, these system issues have been synergistic with a variety
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Many of my psychiatric colleagues in the real world (outside my little bubble of philosophically minded friends) are so eager to avoid dualism that they fall right into the lap
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Almost any meaningful and valuable explanatory hypothesis in the realm of psychopathology can be corrupted into a caricature if it is applied indiscriminately as a one-size fits all. /1 For
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Post four books that started you on your current intellectual journey https://twitter.com/vernon_w_cisney/status/1340493341524410370 Tagging: @DrGipps @schizosemia @HaneMaung @R_J_Chapman @SameiHuda @psychunseen
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My view:i) Use of diagnostic concepts such as schizophrenia requires balancing reliability, validity, & utility, & there can be reasonable disagreement in how they are best balanced. ii) I think
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A bold & timely step by Sir Robin Murray: Psychological Medicine (edited by Kendler & Murray) publishes an article by Bob Whitaker on antipsychotics & mortality, along with a commentary
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If homeostasis (self-regulation & dynamic equilibrium) and the eventual breakdown of homeostasis are universal characteristics of life, what makes us think that our psychological regulatory processes & equilibria are immune
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@Foreman1David I find myself in disagreement with a number of points; I don't want to say that u r necessarily wrong but philosophically speaking it is far from obvious that
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“while sociological critiques cast much valuable light on the social processes around mental illness, they have a fundamental methodological limitation. What is visible from the perspective of social sciences are
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This article initiates a good discussion of how psychiatric syndromes should be understood within a specific context. I want to clarify some aspects of this discussion using the example of
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