Mixed Bag #26:
Darby Saxbe on the Science of Fatherhood
@darbysaxbe.bsky.social
@awaisaftab.bsky.social
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:
buff.ly/xK0itkD
open.substack.com
a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item
Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies”
What we talk about when we talk about antidepressant withdrawal
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/some-predi...
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!"
www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/explana...
