Tom Rowland

Psychiatry has tied itself into a Gordian knot as complex as brain anatomy. It has long claimed that mental disorder is a "dysfunction in" people to be corrected, and it has used convoluted reasoning in an attempt to support this claim. But, if the dysfunction is ever found, why would the problem still be a mental disorder and something for psychiatry? Wouldn't it then be a neurological disorder (for brain dysfunction), an endocrinological disorder (for hormone dysfunction), a nutritional disorder (for nutrient dysfunction), etc.? If psychiatry ever comes up with this promised evidence of dysfunction, it would run itself out of business as a medical profession. Let's help it along!

This is a toned down version of an unpleasant peer review Shafir gave on our paper. So much so that the 2nd reviewer found it necessary to come to me & the editor in SPUDM2023 to express how problematic he found those reviews to be. Much of the unpleasantness remains here...