Yes to this: “We can be healthy only when the entire community is also healthy, meaning all beings: plants, animals, water, people, soil, and air, the ancestors those not yet born.” No to: writing in bumper-stickers. No to: citing single studies as the grounds for sweeping generalizations. No to: neglecting the experiences of people with…

“We have the physician, but we are not the physician. Here we shrink in our proportion, sink in our dignity, in respect of very mean creatures, who are physicians to themselves.” Our diseases are own, but we cannot be our own physician. We must send for the physician.

For the past decade, I’ve been teaching and writing about how we diagnose mental illness. @scahalan taught me to rethink both. Science matters. Pseudoscience also matters. Cahalan shows that Rosenhan’s (in)famous 1973 study harmed the care of persons with mental illness.