I define psychiatric “overdiagnosis” as the observation that there has been a rapid rise in the rate of mental health diagnoses in recent decades, combined with the suspicion that a substantial propor...

Evidence suggests that it really affects what psychiatrists like me call sustained engagement — an important difference in understanding how to think about the condition.

I am wary of movements that focus on a subtractive agenda, one whose primary ambition is to take things away from people.

On imperfect tools

Eric Caplan is a historian of American psychiatry and the author of "When Healing Harms"

Guest post by Colette Delawalla

Guest post by Daniel Cohrs

The DSM needs postpartum psychosis more than postpartum psychosis needs the DSM

The DSM needs postpartum psychosis more than postpartum psychosis needs the DSM

The DSM needs postpartum psychosis more than postpartum psychosis needs the DSM

The absurdity of mad versus bad

New York State Legislature ordered a comprehensive independent study of Kendra’s Law in 2022. The results have now been published and are being misrepresented.

Some psychotherapists argue that erotic countertransference disclosures may serve a therapeutic function... but what are the pitfalls?

Sometimes cocaine use is just cocaine use, and sometimes it is a prelude to the development of psychoanalysis...

Problems that resist definitive articulation

Clinical guidelines addressing complex and ‘wicked’ problems

Problems that resist definitive articulation

If obesity were like ADHD

If obesity were like ADHD

Torrey on the magic of the right word

Torrey on the magic of the right word

Guest post by Adele Framer

“If I thought my voice was nothing more than random, psychotic noise, then that’s all she ever would have been.”

The job of containment and metabolism

The job of containment and metabolism

The Future of “Schizophrenia”

The Future of “Schizophrenia”

The Future of “Schizophrenia”

Guest post by Sorbie Richner

Guest post by Sorbie Richner

Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota

Klerman noted in 1977 that the term had evolved into a slogan used more for rhetorical impact than scientific clarification