Inspired by 3 literary influences from my youth: Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, and the PDR.

The biggest psychiatric news story in decades didn’t make the news, to psychiatry’s relief. I’ll tell you what it is, and why they don’t want you to know.

Before we ponder psychiatry’s many sins against science, let’s first give full consideration to the peculiar challenges it faces as a medical specialty.

Serotonin probably isn’t what you think it is. And I can show you why it probably does what it does.

In order to grasp how far psychiatry’s brand of science has strayed from scientific fact, you need to understand the scientific method–or be reminded how exacting it is.

If you ask a psychiatrist,
“Physiologically speaking,
what is a thought?”–
the only honest answer is,
“We have no freaking clue.”
But I DO have a hypothesis.