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Awais Aftab
The Ground Beneath the Clinic
On the scope of medical authority
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The Ground Beneath the Clinic
On the scope of medical authority
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-ground...
Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse
“Individuals with disorders often have advantages, but that does not make the disorder an adaptation.”
[May 2025]
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Explaining schizophrenia, anorexia or autism by proposing ways they might offer advantages is tempting but almost always wrong. Diseases are not adaptations shaped by natural selection.
@awaisaftab.bsky.social talks evolutionary psychiatry with Randolph Nesse:
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Mixed Bag #26: Darby Saxbe on the Science of Fatherhood
@darbysaxbe.bsky.social explores the topic via a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item
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The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum
In my new post today, I discuss the B-SNIP biotypes of psychosis and how I make sense of them
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Mixed Bag #26:
Darby Saxbe on the Science of Fatherhood
@darbysaxbe.bsky.social
@awaisaftab.bsky.social
The Brain Architecture of Schizophrenia-Bipolar Psychosis Spectrum
In my new post today, I discuss the B-SNIP biotypes of psychosis and how I make sense of them
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-brain-...
Finally we are discarding the imaginary boundaries of “schizophrenia” and “bipolar” …
“DSM categories did not correspond to distinct biological entities. Instead, they lined up along a continuum of severity that appears across multiple bio-factor domains…”
Adding a firey quote of this type about the "Biopsychosocial model" of psychiatric conditions, taken from an interview of Paul R. McHugh by @awaisaftab.bsky.social.
"Sophistry!"
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