does #AI cause #psychosis? contains the “from eccentric to floridly psychotic” spectrum. #psychiatry
on 02025-08-27an article by Paul R. McHugh, who was the head of #psychiatry at Johns Hopkins for a while, opposing sex-reassignment surgery for #transgender people, but also supporting the position that psychological gender differences are not environmental, based on studies of XY intersex people assigned female at birth. Like most psychiatry, the article is obsessed with the normal/abnormal distinction. Probably not irrelevant that this is published in “First Things”, which is a Christian magazine.
on 02016-02-02holy shit, being randomly assigned to taper off #antipsychotics early instead of continuing on them more than doubles your chances of functional recovery at 7 years, from 18% chance of recovery to 40% chance, in one experiment (Wunderlink et al. 2013) #psychology #psychiatry #drugs
on 02015-11-16