Category Archives: Psychiatry

Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of medicine: * During the last half of the century, Charles Darwin’s new evolutionary theory exerted a towering influence over the scientific zeitgeist, including psychiatry.6 Darwin … Continue reading →

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Is depression just a chemical imbalance?

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Luke Ford
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Luke Ford
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2007 book: * The book you are about to read is a brilliant tour de force of scholarship and analysis from two of our leading thinkers about psychiatric diagnosis and the nature of mental … Continue reading →

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Historicism and Hill Street Blues, Major Depressive Disorder, Afghan Refugees

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Luke Ford
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