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For those convinced that female hysteria is a thing of the past - look. Outside of MH care, ppl think hysteria was rejected long ago as a grossly sexist physical threat to women w disease. Inside MH care, it's "Hey this great book from the 80s helps you treat hysterical women!"

Hey @NeilLevy10 I love your new paper, “Consciousness ain’t all that”. What a great read! I’m not convinced by yr challenge to my argument (or Kriegel’s or Siewert’s) on the moral value of consciousness but it's clear I need to sort out why. Working on it. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I had a marvelous conversation with the brilliant Jazmine Russell , who hosts the Depth Work Podcast. The episode is "The Mind-Body Problem in Psychiatry: How to Be a Holist". Very grateful for Jazmine's insights on my work, and on mental health generally podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jazmi…

“When medical doctors or psychiatrists entertain incoherent ideas about the mind and body, they make bad decisions about how to assist us in being well.” - Diane O’Leary open.spotify.com/episode/44gnLt…

This long-Covid paper helps correct the most frequent/harmful mistake I've seen in my career- ie docs using psych diagnoses as a reflex default ("its all in your head") when can't nail a known cause for symptoms. Uncertainty always beats false certainty! thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

“The ‘medical model’ is conflated with the idea that all medical conditions are discrete biological disease entities, an assumption that isn’t even true for much of general medicine, let alone psychiatry.” (Awais Aftab) psychiatrymargins.com/p/people-are-s…

Pleased that Institute of Art and Ideas reposted my article on confusion abt dualism in medicine. I still don't get why people in philosophy of mind are so passive abt medicine's misunderstanding of dualism. That confusion is actually built into standards for patient care, and it does real harm.

"Based on this confused philosophical anxiety, a doctor who follows her training will automatically construe medically unexplained symptoms as psychiatric problems."

Some excellent philosophical reasoning here frm Mark L. Ruffalo: psychiatry needs a foundation of nonreductive physicalism. Note this does involve property dualism, bc experiences are distinct from their correlated brain states. Prop dualism is in no way problematic for psychiatry!

Thx Mark for taking a stand on this vital issue. Here you recognize the core deception that drives the construct of FND: convince patients that FND diagnosis means brain disease when, for MDs, it means psychosocial causes. This deception violates informed consent & it must stop.

Who do you think wrote this sentence? "Psychiatry’s crisis revolves around the question of whether the categories of human distress w which it is concerned are properly considered 'disease'... & whether the exercise of the traditional...physician is appropriate..." Do you agree?

Several guessed Engel & that's right. What struck me is that this sentence explains the crisis in psychiatry that Engel sets out to resolve w the BPS model. Since many see it as an accurate account of psychiatry's current crisis, that means the BPS model failed w its main goal.

Many thx Institute of Art and Ideas for posting my article. It doesn't say, tho, that mind-body dualism puts our health at risk! People often assume I'm rehashing that common idea, but no. I show how anti-dualism in medicine is based on bad philosophy, and how that confusion threatens our safety.

Thanks Symptomodyssee for posting this talk I gave at the 2023 RME conference! For those w ME & long covid I'd like to highlight the final section, starting around 25:10 - where I discuss the moral outrage people feel, rightly, abt problems with their med care. Hope it's useful.

HEY Institute of Art and Ideas! I've written to you several times to say that this tweet is inaccurate! Please, could you stop telling the world that I say "mind-body dualism puts our health at risk"? I argue the opposite, that medicine's fear of dualism puts health at risk. Read the article!