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Psychiatrist interested in Evolutionary Psychology. Co-author of the book Evolutionary Psychiatry: An Introduction and editor of the blog Evolución y Neurociencias https://evolucionyneurociencias.blogspot.com.es Member of the Txori-Herri Medical Association and The Beautiful Brains Band
This article is a summary-commentary of the book Rethinking Suicide, by Craig Bryan. The starting point of the book is that suicide rates in the US have increased in the…
There is now in all spheres of our society, after the COVID pandemic, a renewed interest in suicide that has reached political bodies and has motivated…
No one in the West can be totally non-Christian. You may call yourself a non-Christian, but the dreams you dream are still Christian dreams, and you are still part of the history of Christianity.…
Thomas Joiner is a very famous suicidologist, creator of the so-called interpersonal theory of suicide, which we have already talked about here. In this entry I am going to make a summary-commentary…
In this article I am going to say – and argue with data – that given our current knowledge it is impossible to propose that we can reduce suicides or homicides of…
This is a commentary on the book The 7 Deadly Sins of Psychology, by Chris Chambers, which I think should have been better titled the 7 Deadly Sins of…
There is a quite radical idea about psychiatric diagnosis that has been circulating for some time in the literature and that is once again the center of attention due to the publication of…
There have been a couple of articles out recently that raise a lot of interesting questions that share the question: Why haven’t increased mental health services reduced…
Among the criticisms that antidepressants receive, there is one that refers to the serotonergic (or monoaminergic, in general) hypothesis. The argument is more or less that the serotonergic hypothesis…
Throughout the 19th century, there was an enormous increase in the admission of patients throughout the West to the psychiatric institutions of the time, the asylums. The annual average…