Psychobabble

ADHD is officially classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder: a lifelong brain condition said to be present from birth. But despite decades of research, there is still no biomarker, no diagnostic br...

22 Maalis 22min

I am joined by ​⁠Janice Fiamengo, ​⁠Tom Golden, and James Nuzzo to analyze a "folder of awful" containing various feminist buzzwords and social media trends. If you want to go deeper, here is the reco...

15 Maalis 54min

Obesity is increasingly explained through hormones, genetics, metabolism, and microbiomes. These explanations sound compassionate, scientific, and non-judgmental — but they often fail to explain what ...

11 Maalis 23min

To question a diagnosis today is to trigger a moral reaction.In contemporary psychiatry, diagnostic categories no longer function merely as clinical tools. They increasingly operate as moral identitie...

8 Maalis 17min

I explain how traits once understood as borderline pathology were gradually laundered into bipolar disorder — through expanding criteria, rapid cycling, and the replacement of personality with biology...

25 Helmi 16min

Most so-called "high conflict" divorces are not what people think they are. The term suggests two volatile adults locked in mutual chaos. But in a significant subset of cases, what looks like dysregul...

11 Helmi 29min

In this video, I walk through three everyday patterns in which narcissistic traits are reframed as vulnerability, self-awareness, or moral superiority and therefore escape recognition altogether. From...

27 Tammi 19min

Therapists can't say no to women, psychiatry won't protect its categories, and TikTok has turned serious disorders into identity accessories.In this video, I walk you through a proper differential dia...

7 Tammi 15min