Write, psychologist, write more!
Why writing psychological assessment reports is an underrated training ground for clinicians. A memory from fifteen years ago, several hundred documents later.
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The ADHD-only diagnostician: why ADHD cannot be assessed in isolation
A new professional identity has emerged: the “ADHD diagnostician”. But diagnosis depends on differential assessment, and you can only distinguish ADHD from conditions you genuinely know from clinical practice. Imagine a psychiatrist whose entire practice consisted of diagnosing depression.
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Quo vadis, psychotherapy? If we don’t provide professionally facilitated groups, people will create informal ones of their own
I asked Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to consider how we, as a species, undermine our own mental health. Its answer stayed with me: diagnostic inflation, inventing illnesses in order to treat them, and the case for far more group therapy and group support.
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Invisible variables: what we don’t yet understand about psychedelic therapy
Group-level statistics suggest that psychedelics help. But behind every score lies a whole galaxy of variables that barely register in research abstracts. An expanded version of my talk at the Nauka Psychodeliczna 2026 (Psychedelic Science) conference.
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Psychedelics versus antidepressants: what does the 2026 meta-analysis tell us?
An in-depth analysis of the 2026 meta-analysis by Williams, Barnett and Szigeti, published in *JAMA Psychiatry*.
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