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I've been busy and not updating the website, as usual. For residents: as previously noted, the Dropbox has the most important resources. See also recent emails about specific book chapters. ANPA is starting next week and I excited! In theory I would like to post some things about it as it is going - either here, on Bluesky, on Padlet, or all of the above - but past experience from ANPA indicates that I will likely mostly just be in some combination of in-the-groove or tired to want to stop and do anything like that. We shall see.

Just added today's today on asexuality and aromanticism to the Talks Page. As is tradition, there is also a playlist that somewhat follows the flow of the talk - though this one has a lot more inside jokes / songs that may not seem to make sense: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6qextVOUdvj8v2mRsyQVRH?si=48483ac29fea4efd  

It's been an interesting year to say the least - and for the last few months I haven't been using my social media as consistently and definitely have not being using the website or even the Padlet. There have been some good articles / discussions that I should have posted to Padlet, but a combination of holidays (including Halloween, Thanksgiving travel, Christmas,) life events, and working on a new talk have distracted me. As usual, upcoming lectures / teaching in the new year is [somewhat] motivating me to post something.

I just uploaded the talk page to have the PowerPoint file for the recent talk. I feel like hibernating for a bit.

Haven't been posting as much here, mostly related to the time of the academic year / timing of lectures and working on grand rounds. I have been putting interesting articles on the Padlet link. I should probably post a few things about upcoming ANPA deadlines and events.

A brief check-in - as I say ad nauseum, this site is most of boring education updates, but this is a time of significant concerns - CDC issues, anti-trans / anti-vaccine / anti-psychiatry rhetoric. Please stay involved, informed, and do adequate self-care during this times.

The Catatonia SIG is meeting soon - and plan to discuss this article and it's interesting points / limitations: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38924566/ I may be biased, but I highly recommend being both a member of ANPA and a member of the Catatonia SIG, so that you can join us to discuss such things and work on projects such as https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40223425/ ANPA SIG Information: https://anpaonline.org/special-interest-groups/special-interest-groups  

From the June 24, 2025 edition, four great viewpoints in a row: The FDA's Crisis Is Everyone's Crisis The Role of Affirming Language Heath and Human Services Restructuring - Threats to the US Preventive Services Task Force & Health Psychiatry and the Make America Healthy Again Commission Just like how I don't usually do "book reviews," I don't necessarily always promote editorials or articles - but having four in a row like this caught my eye.

Hello all, It's a new academic year? I'm mostly typing this to keep the blog active, though I don't have much to say. Working on a couple of talks and considering some curriculum changes. For the residents (which should be the biggest percentage of people reading this) - remember to check the Dropbox. I'm also now at the Associate Professor level, which doesn't really change much but seems like an accomplishment. Seems like the most appropriate thing to do is post my book (though these are only the ones in my work office): https://bsky.app/profile/psychialove.com/post/3lt66cvo6ms2j I have some thoughts on the…

I wanted to start this entry a bit ago, but I dragged my feet due to not being sure how to do it - mostly because I've avoiding doing book reviews or recommendations except in specific cases -  but decided that I would be best to just do a normal post that I can update later. I also wanted to do this at the end of May for Military Appreciation Month, but by the time I got to it that was over. I've had a couple of recent incidents of trainees not being as aware of military and veteran culture,…