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🚨 Confirmed: Schizophrenia’s “voices” are the brain mishearing its own thoughts. For decades, neuroscientists have theorized that the "voices" heard by individuals with schizophrenia stem from the brain mistaking its own inner dialogue for external sounds. A groundbreaking

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Commentary on ‘The Julian Assange case and its implications for expert witness evidence’ – Damned if you do ……… - Keith Rix, 2025

An updated reading list for students/residents. Everyone will have their own recommendations, but here are mine: 1. Approaches to the Mind (Havens) 2. The Concepts of Psychiatry (Ghaemi) 3. General Psychopathology (Jaspers) 4. A History of Psychiatry (Shorter) 5. Borderline

What do homicide inquiries tell us? Excellent from forensic psychiatrist @MayuDeshp & colleagues. https://t.co/HsooTsJzv3

The entire archive (over 2,000 articles) of Psychodynamic Psychiatry is open with unlimited access for the month of May. (I have an article in the current issue.)

Introducing the PRiSM (Psychopathology Refracted into Seven Modalities) psychiatric diagnostic instrument, co-developed with Ronald Pies, which aims to reduce the problem of "comorbidity." @PsychTimes @TuftsMedSchool https://t.co/X9KQqwtyG3

The Decline of Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Part I: Dismantling the Legend of CBT https://t.co/agU6Ddanpn Part II: The Challenge of Psychopharmaceuticals https://t.co/Lj7uqlhWYN Sahanika Ratnayake (@SahanikaR ) Open access through May 3rd!

In this new piece at @PsychToday, I offer some thoughts on complex PTSD, arguing that the construct suffers from two fatal flaws and should not be included in DSM-6. https://t.co/Rm4LwG9dQO

It's often still asked, how long the police can hold someone in custody without charging them for an offence and most people answer 24hrs. Short thread explaining why this is the day-to-day norm, but it's not in serious cases, using the North Sea ship collision example: 1/

‘Stitch,’ capacity and complexity – a masterclass in capacity determination:

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Really? 😅 @rcpsych @TheBJPsych

What immediate lessons for mental health from the Nottingham inquiry? 1) We are too reluctant to intervene when signs of risk are becoming clear, citing “least restriction”. 2) We do not accept what families tell us, our fleeting observations counting for more.

Drawing of a schizophrenic inmate

Litigation capacity and a very clear statement from the Court of Appeal about the ordering of the capacity test:

Research Assistants at the Law Commission have published four presentations on legal research and writing skills for university students 💻 The videos are available on the following playlist on the Law Commission YouTube channel on the following link:

Maybe Aristotle was right about a few things

A crossover between Chekhov's Gun, Schrödinger's Cat, Occam's Razor, and Murphy's law.