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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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J ustin Garson is a Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a contributor for Psychology Today and Aeon. He writes on the philosophy of madness, the evolution of the mind and purpose in nature. His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

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The Psychiatrist Who Got Hooked on Antidepressants — Now, He Helps Others to Quit

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From The Times : “In 2019 Horowitz and Professor David Taylor, the director of pharmacy and pathology at the Maudsley Hospital in London (who went through his own ‘strange and frightening and torturous’ withdrawal), co-authored an article in the Lancet Psychiatry journal arguing that tapering should happen far more slowly than official guidelines suggested.