Bringing Psyche Back to Psychiatry with Paul Minot MD
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How Psychiatry Lost Its Mind
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the murky historical origins of psychiatry’s “mindless” biomedical treatment model…and its current record of failure.
Psychiatry's Next Revolution: A New Way to Think About Thought
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Psychiatry's history is bipolar--swinging between obsession with the mind, and the brain. We've now had forty-plus years of biological domin...
A Poem: "I Went to a Psychiatrist"
24 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A poem inspired by 3 literary influences from my youth: Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, and the PDR.
Psychiatry's Inconvenient Truth: We're Not Saving Lives
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More Americans than ever before are being diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and treated with psychiatric medications. So wouldn't you expect t...
Artificial Afterglow: How SSRIs Might Actually Work!
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The modern biological era of psychiatry began with the 1987 release of Prozac--the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, or SSRI. Other popula...
How to Think Like a Scientist, and Why Psychiatrists Don't
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you think that contemporary psychiatric treatments are based on a firm scientific understanding of how the brain-mind operates? Don't be foole...
My Insecure Profession
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Modern psychiatry’s enthusiastic embrace of the current biological model of treatment was triggered by significant advances in brain research in the...