Real Psychiatry

  “If you laid all philosophers end-to-end it would be a good thing.”   Anonymous philosopher lecturing medical students somewhere in the Mi...

  I became aware of a paper on epistemic injustice (1) this morning and just finished reading the paper.   I wrote a blog on this topic wi...

Some of the greatest minds in psychiatry have emphasized the importance of philosophy in the field and done some excellent work...

A couple of years ago, I responded to a New York Times editorial by a philosopher .  It was focused on the release of the DSM-5 and li...

Before anyone schools me about Prohibition - I give lectures on Prohibition. I know it doesn't work and I know the reasons why....

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times, by George Makari, MD has me shaking my head.  The thesis was that a recent headline grabbi...

I started writing this blog over three years ago.  I decided to start writing it for a number of reasons.  First and foremost was the c...