
Articles/Podcast

How Psychiatry Lost Its Mind
We didn’t abandon the psyche because of scientific progress. We lost our mind because we wanted to, and because The Nine Commandments told us to.

Where’s the Wisdom In Psychiatry?
Not only does psychiatry ignore the clinical value of wisdom—it fails to satisfy the demands of wisdom. Or of the scientific method. Or of Hippocrates, the father of medicine.

Psychiatry’s Mission Impossible
Before I expose psychiatry's ignorance of its organ system, it's only fair to acknowledge the challenges of studying it.

How to Think Like a Scientist (And Why Psychiatrists Don't)
To understand psychiatry's abuses of science, you first have to understand the scientific method. Here's what you need to know.

Psychiatry's Inconvenient Truth: We're Not Saving Lives
Psychiatry's biggest public relations disaster in decades got no press coverage in 2018. When will psychiatry return Trump's favor?

Artificial Afterglow: How SSRIs Might Actually Work
A likely explanation for the effects of SSRIs, including the "undesirable" ones. Psychiatrists don't know it, and probably don't want to.

A Poem: “I Went to a Psychiatrist”
I wrote this poem, inspired by three literary influences from my youth: Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, and the PDR.

A Neurodigital Model for Thought, Mind, and Memory
Don't computers run on electricity? No, they actually run on information. Mounting evidence suggests brains might do so as well.

My Insecure Profession: A Psychiatrist’s Full Disclosure
Psychiatry’s current treatment model is driven not only by money, but also by psychiatry’s historical insecurity as a medical specialty. Let me count the ways…