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🚑 Can we do better than involuntary hospitalization?
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Can we do better than involuntary hospitalization?
Researchers at Stanford and a Pennsylvania county are investigating new methods to minimize costly and harmful psychiatric holds.

Professor Obvious theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/13/psychedelics-ocd-treatment-psilocybin

Psychedelic treatments show promise for OCD while cannabis doesn’t, review finds
Psychiatry professor theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain

Also in Asterisk: an interesting article about the history of the DSM-5, and its critics.
> The psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams captures this concern with unusual clarity in her 2021 essay “Diagnosis and Its Discontents.” She reflects on a shift that began with the release of DSM-III, when psychiatry embraced a more descriptive, symptom-based diagnostic model. The change, she notes, quietly restructured how people speak about themselves in therapy. Once, a client might enter the roo…

You Aren’t In The DSM—Asterisk
Five editions on, the DSM shoulders more responsibilities than it was ever intended for. How did we get here?