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Alexey Tolchinsky

@tolchinsky.bsky.social

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Talk at McGill next Thursday. For colleagues in Montreal. I'll present next Thursday 3-4.30pm at the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry. Many thanks to Laurence Kirmayer Ana Gomez-Carrillo and other colleagues.

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Most problematic - she is in distress, he apologizes and continues to do it. From this video and this style of the interview to conclude that it was indeed shame sounds speculative to me. (no facial expression analysis, no blush, no parasympathetic system evaluation, just questions)

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

You can ask a good endocrinologist to break down the differential diagnosis of Hashimoto for you in 5 digestible steps, but the truth of the matter is that their 15 years of training contributes to how they Actually do it.

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

An upcoming seminar at McGill University on Narrative Fallacy in clinical psychology and psychiatry. Thank you so much, Professor Laurence Kirmayer for the invitation. This seminar will be a part of the Culture & Clinic Series. April 3rd 3-5pm EST. The link to register in the comments below.

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Yes. It’s just important to balance things and have a sober reality check – Harari is right – we are very psychologically hackable creatures and corporations use that extensively. #hijacking #piracy #hacking #exploitation

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

this is terrible. We need collective action to do something about this. Science is about to be censored by people who advance their personal agenda and can care less about public wellbeing

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