Danilo Moggia, Ph.D.

I started using this platform in 2010 to follow and share academic and scientific news, especially on psychology, psychotherapy and mental health. However, nowadays, the only feeds I receive are discourses of alt-right populism, misinformation, and hate speech. 🧵1/2

We've gone from 106 diagnoses in the DSM in 1952 to nearly 300 today. Did humans suddenly develop 200 new ways to be mentally ill? Or did the psychiatric industrial complex develop 200 new ways to profit from convincing you your personality is a disease?

A new paper from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup (and yours truly) on the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of the framework. Recommended reading for anyone interested in questions of classification and psychopathology! Here’s the journal article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

@jualtorres Gerontócratas...

@Giligg and social demands, highlight the biological foundations of sex-specific roles." Paragraphs like this reproduce stereotypes about genders that are unquestionned because it's evolution, not a perspective, a speculation on how evolution has operated on human beings.

@Giligg defense, critical for group survival. Human females, conversely, developed enhanced nurturing and social skills, advantageous for child-rearing and maintaining group cohesion, reflecting their higher parental investment (Geary, 2021). These differences, rooted in ecological...

Sex is not a social construct but a biological reality. Denying it hurt both men and women. A new review article demonstrate common sex differences and how biology and evolutionary psychology best explain them. #Sec12" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@IDefsHateYou @Giligg Why do you personalise this?! I haven't attacked you personally... I don't know you and you r stalking my profile. I won't enter into the discussion you're suggesting.

@psiconstructiva @Giligg i'm aware but a psychotherapist calling evopsych pseudoscience is the pot calling the kettle black

@IDefsHateYou @Giligg The paper is not about psychotherapy and is not founded on it 🤷

@psiconstructiva @Giligg I can just as easily say the same thing about psychotherapy which has even less predictive power.

@Giligg I did, that's why I'm posting my comment. It's full of apealings to evolutionary psychology.

@psiconstructiva I assume you haven't read the article, have you?

@Yandelrio92 ¿Por qué el salto de genes que regulan 5-HTT, luego rol de la serotonina en el control de los impulsos (nivel molecular), a células GABAérgicas? ¿Cuál sería la relación entre 5-HTT, rol de la serotonina y células GABAérgicas? 5-HTT y serotonina se siguen, luego GABA, no se sigue.

el trayecto de la desregulación emocional en el sistema de valance negativo (RDOC) CECILIA A. ESSAU

¿Soy Yo o es mi enfermedad? Dado que no existe un concepto indiscutible de "yo" ni de "trastorno mental", la relación "yo-enfermedad" está plagada de ambigüedad. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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New publication! We measured engagement with mental health apps and developed the "Psychological Effort" index, which predicts symptom improvement with the app activities! #MentalHealthMatters #Psychology #psychotherapy #clinicalpsychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cp…

Good to see this issue on the front page of Psychiatric Times. A small boat entering an avalanche of uncharted water is a good choice from the editor.

An excellent essay on how mental health labels obscure the complexity of human beings and 'can become self-fulfilling spells' theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/…