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Natali Reise

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Journalist, Book author, Freelancer https://www.glossai.de 🌍 ✨ 🌀 🌈 🕊️ 🔮 🖋️ 🌱 ♾️ 🪞🕸️💙 🧡 💚 🖤 ~ ⚠️Trigger-Warnung: Beiträge thematisieren Entgrenzung, psychische Krisen, Verlust, existenzielle Fragen ~ Engagement gegen Mitmenschlichkeitsmangel

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · Feb 7

📢 "But the most important thing to remember is that, in every single one of these experiments, there were people who didn’t blindly follow the crowd. A good 10–30%, and sometimes 60%, chose to do the right thing." (from the Medium article)

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lazers-everywhere.bsky.social @lazers-everywhere.bsky.social · Feb 7

Looking up the book this is from and found this great wee article about it:

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Stand Out: How to Prevent Obeying in Advance

Timothy Snyder’s dictum, “Do Not Obey in Advance,” seems to be everywhere these days. It’s the title of the first chapter of his book out…

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MatttttttttB @matttttttttb.bsky.social · Aug 17

The second editor, expert in “biosocial criminology,” waving the reddest of red flags

surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sociology folks, I didn’t realize “Theory and Society” went this crazy…I see why folks resigned en masse…a perfect example of the right wing information ecosystem in action. This is a way to simply launder reactionary takes on policing.

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Productive Takes on Policing

The state’s monopoly on violence is a fundamental requirement for maintaining social order in complex societies. In the absence of effective law enforcement, ...

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

The so-called “anti-psychiatry” thinkers — Laing, Cooper, Basaglia, Szasz — never wanted to abolish psychiatry.
They asked it to listen.
They laid the foundation for open wards, patient rights, trauma-informed care, and the idea that healing means dialogue, not domination. 🌿

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

Szasz questioned the medical language that turns human pain into pathology.
His — from many perspectives unfortunate — alliance with Scientology-linked critics was political, not spiritual: born from a fight against coercion, not from dogma.

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

Szasz didn’t deny suffering. He questioned why we call it a disease.
His legacy is complex: he once worked with Scientology-linked critics, yet his independence from Scientology is acknowledged in scientific discussions.
And current research shows: neither schizophrenia nor ADHD are purely genetic.🌿

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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If such findings lead to more support and understanding — that’s good.

But if they fuel new forms of labeling, excessive use of medication, or even subtle forms of surveillance,
we risk deepening stigma instead of healing it. 🌿

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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ADHD is a broad and shifting diagnosis — often shaped as much by context as by biology.

And what should we do with this information?

Factors like gender, substance use, social hardship, and inequality are far stronger predictors of crime than any diagnostic label.

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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One more note — a recent study links ADHD diagnoses and criminal convictions within families
(Biol. Psychiatry, 2025 — (www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... ).

But we must pause and ask: What do we actually do with this knowledge?
#BiologicalPsychiatry #ADHD #Psychiatry

The Familial Co-Aggregation of ADHD and Criminal Convictions: A Register-Based Cohort Study

The association between ADHD and criminality is well established, yet little is known about the familial liability of ADHD and crime across different types of relatives, from twins to cousins. This st...

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 2d

For #Halloween, here's the reclining skeleton mosaic from San Gregorio on the Via Appia. The Greek aphorism ΓΝΩΘΙ Σ(Ε)ΑΥΤΟΝ ('Know Thyself') is said to have been inscribed at the Temple of Apollo on Delphi (Pausanias 10.24.1). 🏺🦇

Image: Museo Nazionale Romano (Baths of Diocletian)

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Let science look deeper into the brain —
but let us look deeper into each other,
into the spirit of our shared humanity.
Only together will we understand
what truly makes and mends a mind. 🌿
#Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Resonance #Ethics #MentalHealth

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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I’m not against biology or neuroscience
in psychiatry.
I’m against forgetting what it means to be human.
Against the overuse of medication.
Healing happens between people —
inside the soul, through learning, action,
and resonance between us —
not only between neurons in a single brain.

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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If biology and neuroscience
become the whole story of psychiatry,
the danger is subtle:
when we speak only of molecules,
we might learn to fix chemistry and structures
back to “normal,”
while forgetting how to comfort the soul
whose pain still lingers. 🌿

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Meanwhile, molecular psychiatry expands rapidly —
mapping receptors, synapses, and genetic signatures.
This research can help.
But if we let it dominate the narrative,
we risk replacing understanding with measurement.

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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And there’s another dimension: investigative reporting (see The Guardian, Oct 2024) shows how ‘race science’ networks exploit genetics to promote eugenics and crime-biology narratives. (www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...)

Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss

Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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There is even a growing interest in molecular bases of criminal behavior — genetics, neurotransmitters, epigenetics.
but, as Undark Magazine points out, this research re-awakens a racist past of biology-driven crime theories. undark.org/2023/01/25/c...

Criminologists, Looking to Biology for Insight, Stir a Racist Past

Using biology to understand criminal behavior has long been controversial. Top criminology programs are pursuing it anyway.

undark.org

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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There’s another side to this:
Studies (www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...)
show that people with severe mental illness
are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.

They face stigma, poverty, exclusion —
and still, the story we tell
is one of fear instead of protection.

Frontiers | Determinants of victimization in patients with severe mental illness: results from a nation-wide cross-sectional survey in the Netherlands

ObjectiveTo examine determinants of the prevalence and frequency of criminal victimization (i.e. both personal and property crime victimization) in outpatien...

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Violence?

Often blamed on “illness” — especially in relation to diagnoses like psychosis.

But Fazel et al. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19668362/)) showed that most excess risk
is explained by comorbid substance use —
not by psychosis itself.

Context changes everything.

Schizophrenia and violence: systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed

Schizophrenia and other psychoses are associated with violence and violent offending, particularly homicide. However, most of the excess risk appears to be mediated by substance abuse comorbidity. The risk in these patients with comorbidity is similar to that for substance abuse without psychosis. P …

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Neighborhood deprivation matters too.
Kirkbride et al. (2014, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...)
found higher psychosis rates in deprived areas of East London,
even after controlling for migration and population density.

Brains and neurons don’t suffer in isolation — people do.

Social Deprivation, Inequality, and the Neighborhood-Level Incidence of Psychotic Syndromes in East London

Although urban birth, upbringing, and living are associated with increased risk of nonaffective psychotic disorders, few studies have used appropriate multilevel techniques accounting for spatial dependency in risk to investigate social, economic, ...

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Research shows that childhood adversity —
abuse, neglect, bullying, loss —
is strongly associated with psychosis.

Varese et al. (2012 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...) estimated that about one-third of psychosis cases might relate to such experiences.

These are not molecular accidents.

Childhood Adversities Increase the Risk of Psychosis: A Meta-analysis of Patient-Control, Prospective- and Cross-sectional Cohort Studies

Evidence suggests that adverse experiences in childhood are associated with psychosis. To examine the association between childhood adversity and trauma (sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional/psychological abuse, neglect, parental death, and ...

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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The human mind is not a cell culture.

Genes matter, yes — but so do poverty, trauma, meaning, and love.

The World Health Organization reminds us:
“Mental health is shaped by social, economic, and physical environments across the life course.”
(www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241506809)

Social determinants of mental health

Good mental health is integral to human health and well being. A person’s mental health and many common mental disorders are shaped by various social, economic, and physical environments operating at ...

www.who.int

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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I recently came across a PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry on “molecular and neural basis of psychiatric disorders.”
And I felt a quiet unease.

Not because molecular research is wrong —
but because it is becoming a dominant focus,
and biology alone can never tell the whole story.🌿

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Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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I wish for a psychiatry
that doesn’t blindly defend itself,
but understands and answers through dialogue,
and for a language that heals
because it can hold contradiction. 🌿
#Psychiatry #Stigma #LanguageMatters #Resonance #Ethics

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Critique is not hostility.
It is essential for every living science.
If we mistake it for opposition,
we lose what psychiatry most needs:
humility, innovation, listening, and personal relationship,
seeing every person as a human being,
not a diagnostic code.

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Maybe we don’t need frontlines between
biology and society,
medicine and critique,
but a resonant space in between,
where truth is plural, humane, personal, individual,
and healing is more than a single schematic model.

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr. Stea, on the other hand, defends
what has saved many lives:
therapy, medication, and research.
Both speak from care,
but also from fear of not being heard.

Natali Reise @glossai.bsky.social · 2d

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John Read, whom Dr. Stea refers to,
belongs to this psychosocial tradition.
He doesn’t deny that help exists and should happen.
- He questions why our labels sometimes harden,
and how language can wound even as it tries to heal.