Psychiatry at the Margins
Awais Aftab, David Heath, Haim Belmaker, Gonzalo Amador Rivera, Austin Ratner, Nev JonesExploring critical, philosophical, and scientific debates in psychiatric practice and the psy-sciences
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What I Wish People Understood About Mental Health Problems
I have a new opinion piece in the New York Times, “We’re Thinking About Mental Health Diagnoses All Wrong” (gift link for access) (published with several other titles, including “Here’s What Psychiatrists Mean When They Say You Have A.D.H.D...
Make Deprescribing Boring
There are two broad mindsets or flavors when it comes to talk of “deprescribing” in psychiatry.
The first is the mindset of competent, collaborative, patient-centered practice, one that treats taking patients off medications that are no lo...
Notes from a South American Psychiatrist on the Future DSM
Dr. Gonzalo Amador Rivera is a psychiatrist and philosophy graduate. He works at the Hospital de Psiquiatría de la Caja Nacional de Salud in La Paz, Bolivia. He writes online at Psiquiatría Subterránea.
The article is published below in bo...
Philosophical Considerations Around HiTOP - Commentaries and Response
Follow-up to:
In March 2026, I shared a summary of a new paper I had co-authored with folks from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup. ‘Examining the Foundational Assumptions of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology’ was published i...
Twilight of the Psychopharmacologists
Robert Haim Belmaker and Pesach Lichtenberg, Psychopharmacology Reconsidered: A Concise Guide Exploring the Limits of Diagnosis and Treatment (Springer, 2023).
There is a particular kind of book that can only be written late in one’s caree...
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Psychiatrist with philosophical interests. My first book “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (OUP, 2024) is an edited collection of interviews.
Heath founded Canada’s first psychiatric hospitalization at home program in Kitchener Ontario in 1989. He is the author of Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders 2004 Routledge, NY. His website is intensivehometreatment.com
“Like a Rolling Stone”. Médico psiquiatra, licenciado en Filosofía, aficionado a la metafísica y a la música —pero de aquella que se hace escuchar—; hijo, hermano, amigo y ciudadano renegado.
Associate Professor in the School of Social Work & affiliate psychiatry faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.
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