Archive - Rational Psychiatry

Searching for root causes

We crave meaningful explanations for mental disorders

May 1 •

April 2024

The case against 'mental health'

A shift away from mental illness may be doing more harm than good

Apr 8 •

March 2024

All the lives we cannot see

The truth about clozapine - 'Britain's most dangerous drug'

Mar 1 •

February 2024

A history of violence

The enduring and controversial link with schizophrenia (warning: discussion of the 2023 Nottingham attacks)

Feb 4 •

January 2024

How to read a paper

(Tommy's 2024 edition)

Jan 6 •

December 2023

Research roundup 2023

Here are my favourite papers of the year

Dec 24, 2023 •

Have we been doing neuroimaging wrong?

There is no such thing as an average brain

Dec 1, 2023 •

October 2023

The powerful and the damned

That cool ketamine-under-general-anaesthesia trial is underpowered, sorry

Oct 31, 2023 •

I'm a reductionist. Maybe you are too

Oct 4, 2023 •

September 2023

How doctors actually think

(Spoiler, we're secretly all Bayesians)

Sep 11, 2023 •

August 2023

KarXT for schizophrenia

Aug 1, 2023 •

July 2023

Why raloxifene failed

...and the implications for the oestrogen hypothesis of schizophrenia

Jul 1, 2023 •

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