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Lissa Warren @lissawarren.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Save the date! @susantonetta.bsky.social discusses THE DEVIL'S CASTLE at a Women, Life and Science "Science Cafe" at M. Judson Bookseller in Greenville, SC at 5pm on 6/29. More info here: bit.ly/49EfB1N @catapultbooks.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Looking forward to this interview going live tomorrow!

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Lissa Warren @lissawarren.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"We're still caught in a lot of the same thinking that some people just aren't able to be fixed, that there's a hopelessness with the mind. And that's absolutely not true." @susantonetta.bsky.social discussing THE DEVIL'S CASTLE on @chewsviews.bsky.social: bit.ly/3ZRIYZr @catapultbooks.bsky.social

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Lissa Warren @lissawarren.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"What happened in Germany during WWII to their psychiatric population...felt to me like a story that's not over...We're still making value judgements about who is worthwhile." THE DEVIL'S CASTLE's @susantonetta.bsky.social on @ksqdfm.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rPVHHV @catapultbooks.bsky.social

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This was a great interview. We got into the difficulties of neurodiversity & our ongoing eugenic beliefs.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Thanks @lissawarren.bsky.social for sharing this! A wonderful interview, great host.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Oh them shiny glasses! But this was a GREAT conversation.

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David Swanson @davidcnswanson.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.

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Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle

AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.

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Lissa Warren @lissawarren.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"The DSM is the beating heart of our psychiatric system, but it was based on the work of a eugenicist." Watch THE DEVIL'S CASTLE author @susantonetta.bsky.social on Cowboy State Daily Show discussing the Nazi underpinnings of mental health care in the U.S.: bit.ly/43funsP @catapultbooks.bsky.social

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

My latest for Psychology Today--how we allowed a German proto-Nazi doctor to guide our psychiatry. What could go wrong? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...

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The Doctor Who Trained Nazis and Changed Psychiatry

Emil Kraepelin trained Nazi doctors and helped shape the DSM.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

For the next four days Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off pre-orders of The Devil's Castle for premium members--a great deal! As my Counterpoint Press points out, B&N is "also an underdog" these days.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I loved this conversation I had with the folks at Wimblu about animal consciousness, orangutans who sign, & what we continue to get so wrong about those who share our umwelt, in their own umwelts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYY...

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Meet the Authors | 'Interspecies Conversations' with Susanne Paola Antonetta

YouTube video by Wimblu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The Collegeville Institute is offering a FREE pop-up writing workshop in Ashville on April 5, offering chances to write with prompts, a plenary, & limited 45-minute one-on-one mentoring sessions. I'll offer a free copy of Tell It Slant to my five mentees. collegevilleinstitute.org/events/event...

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Pop-Up Writing Workshop, April 5, 2025 (Asheville, NC) - Collegeville Institute

Join us for this pop up writing workshop.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Pretty much everything from this year's Consumer Electronics Show seems like a terrible idea that's going to make bad things worse.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

My search engine suggested an article to me about neuroscientist Anil Seth, who I wrote about recently for Psychology Today. At the end a little note said the article was partly AI generated. Obviously my article was part of its "training," or whatever you want to call it. What the bleep? #writers

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My friend Susan calls us the "two-apocalypse" family--spouse & I in Helene, weeks into having clean water again, son Jin unhoused by LA fires. I feel more than I ever have that each day can bring anything, a freefall nausea I don't know what to do with. Somehow we're living God's warning to Noah.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Apparently fact-checking is now the opposite of free speech. Jeopardy question to follow.😨

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Lots of us left X due to the Musk & meanness of it. I wonder how this Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively mess is going to come out. I don't know who is right (no one at this point does IMO) but it shows how cruelly & in pursuit of the worst of capitalism social media gets weaponized now. Time to ponder.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

So far the best summation I've read. "t’s possible, and in fact quite easy, to agree that it was bad to kill someone without retroactively sanitizing the victim." www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

So many of us got to BS & let out a breath of relief at the civility of it. What do we do when that starts eroding? Anyone out there have thoughts? & I'm afraid there's plenty of bad behavior on my side of things these days, not as much as the other side, but still. Stay respectful? Can we?

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Since I just started posting here, putting up one of my articles for Psychology Today that I really enjoyed writing & matters to me. Hope you all enjoy as well. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...

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The Breathtaking Diversity of the Human Mind

Talking about a transformative "perceptual diversity" with neuroscientist Anil Seth gives new ways to consider neurodiversity and the wild creativity of the human mind.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In the midst of that amazing necessary appreciated somewhat terrifying literary root canal that is copy-editing. To quote E Dickinson, I feel I have not expressed myself strongly enough.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I broke my toe & have just been walking on it for six weeks. That's how strange the last two months in Asheville have been, for a whole variety of reasons I'm sure you all can imagine. I'm off to the Summer Land. As sketched by AJ Davis in his astral travels, it sounds pretty good.

a man's sketch of the "Summer Land," an arched band surrounded by stars & trees.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Madwoman here: telling a new-ish friend I used to crazy quilt (which is a real thing) & her touching my arm & saying, Oh honey, you don't have to call it that just because it's you.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Coming out in September 2025. Many years in the making. Really the toughest thing I've ever done & timely in ways I wouldn't wish.

Taupe book cover with an ink blot in the upper left corner & a 17th century painting of a castle in the lower right, shadows in the background. The Devil's Castle by Susanne Paola Antonetta.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Water ban lifted & I'm a bit horrified by the ppl here in Asheville who plan to keep using only bottled water b/c they "don't trust the numbers." Same ppl horrified by the choice of JKF Jr as he "doesn't believe in science." Plastics got us here, ffs.

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I think the Onion bought not just Infowars but everything & none of this is really happening. Is that possible?

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Can anyone explain this whole intriguing yet baffling starter pack thing?

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madsusanne @susantonetta.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Can't do twitter anymore so I'm trying this out! I have no idea who is out there or what kinds of discussions people have. I currently have many thoughts about creative nonfiction after reading enormous amounts of it for various purposes. If anyone's game let me know! Or say hi. Or whatever!

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