Tag: psychiatry
Dissent Becomes a Mental Illness
A healthcare historian looks at the history of the use of psychiatry to crush alternative viewpoints.
Replace Psychiatrists with AI?
“A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot ‘confidante,’ committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change.”
Heart Attack Doctor: Science Shows Death Is Not the End
Sam Parnia began by wondering how brain cells can give rise to thoughts. He came to see that the message “from science” was not what he had been led to expect.
Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…
What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism.
Examining Causes of Gender Dysphoria
In recent years, there has been increased interest in a possible connection between gender dysphoria and autism.