mental illness

Autistic children attend a course delivered by a specialised teacher Caroline Berge (L) at the College du Parc in Aulnay-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris on October 9, 2019. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP via Getty Images)

Autism diagnoses are rising, yes, but autism, probably not

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:9. January 2024
Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics Psychiatry

We can read in many outlets that the reason autism is increasing in prevalence is that clinicians are becoming more aware of it. The idea being that autism was already…

Jan-Erik Lönnqvist vs. Emil Kirkegaard on mental illness and the left

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:13. September 2023
Post category:Political science Psychiatry

Occasionally, academics launch an unprompted attack on me. Unprompted in the sense that I had never previously heard of this person as far as I know. Recently a Swedish professor…

Preferences can be sick: mental illness from an evolutionary perspective

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:19. July 2023
Post category:Evolutionary biology Evolutionary Psychology Psychiatry

In the continuing debate about mental illness, we have roughly the following situation: Bryan Caplan representing the Thomas Szasz camp Scott Alexander representing the pragmatist "define mental illness in a…

Homosexuality is a mental illness

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:26. January 2023
Post category:Psychiatry

To be precise, exclusive homosexuality is. But let's backtrack a bit. Scott Alexander has a new piece out that begins with this disclaimer: CONTENT NOTE: This essay contains sentences that…

A theory of Ashkenazi genius: intelligence and mental illness

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:11. November 2022
Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability Psychiatry

I want to put together a theory to explain a putative phenomenon: Ashkenazi Jews have more geniuses relative to non-Jewish Europeans (gentiles) than one would expect based on their average…

Mental illness and intelligence: the relationship is negative

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:3. February 2022
Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability Psychiatry

This one keeps coming up whenever I post things about mental illness and X, like politics. So it's worth having a go-to summary for a popular audience. Mental illness is…

The conservative advantage in mental health keeps replicating

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:29. January 2022
Post category:Political science Psychiatry

Back in May 2020, I published a paper provocatively titled Mental Illness and the Left. It was based on the common observation (stereotype!) that conservatives seem less prone to mental…

New study out: Mental Illness and the Left

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:27. May 2020
Post category:Political science Psychology

Well, this one has been public as as preprint for a while (PsyArxiv [this is tagged as private?!], OSF and ResearchGate ~9k views), but it is now officially published in…

Siekieatry, again

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:16. January 2012
Post category:Uncategorized
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Dhis is a respons to dhe artikl: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/01/100301crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all “Kirsch’s conclusion is that antidepressants are just fancy placebos. Obviously, this is not what the individual tests showed. If they had, then…