Psychobabble

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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 15min

This episode sits very deliberately at the "how do I deal with this?" level. It's for people who find themselves repeatedly destabilised in relationships marked by manipulation, emotional volatility, ...

24 Des 202519min

Welcome to the Psychobabble Christmas Special — and to the most dangerous game on the internet: Can You Think Like a Feminist? I brought three of my favorite anti-feminist friends — Janice Fiamengo Ja...

11 Des 202530min