MD-PhD Resident Physician in the Research-Track Residency in Psychiatry at Harvard/BIDMC. Opinions are mine alone.
New York, NY
Joined April 2021
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Excited to share that my final paper from grad school has (finally) been published! With @AkbarianLab and @kristenbrennand nature.com/articles/s41380-0…
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The New York Times should be ashamed of itself. I didn’t know I could count on them to promote dangerous, medically and scientifically illiterate, grossly ignorant quackery.
nytimes.com/2025/03/17/healt…
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PSA. The show “The Resident” is just a massive, condensed compendium of every resident’s collected nightmares all compacted into one episode. Residents: do NOT watch even one episode. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Never again. 😇
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Sam Powell retweeted
Today we celebrate 'Dr. Aaron T. Beck Day'.
In my view, Beck was 2nd greatest contributor in history of psychotherapy (after only Ferenczi).
Learn more about his life/contributions to therapy technique by joining Beck Institute description of his legacy:
beckinstitute.org/aaron-t-be…
Love this, and completely agree on all points as someone who is trained in and practices an “evidence based” psychotherapy 😉. We need to do so much better in how we study psychotherapy. @JonathanShedler I’m curious if there are any studies you like on the following: (short 🧵)
1/ The “evidence-based therapy” game—explained with 🥞
I have a pancake recipe. I do randomized controlled trials (RCTs) showing that people like my 🥞 better than getting no breakfast at all
My🥞are now “evidence-based” & yours aren’t. I start telling everyone my🥞are superior
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… long term (typical-ish duration) psychodynamic therapy to (definitely) long term CBT of equal duration and how they perform on relevant/important/meaningful outcomes? Asking for a friend 😅. If not, I’ll def investigate the literature myself. If still nothing, this is one …
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This post 👍❤️. The Meyers-Briggs or MBTI is just awful. It’s disappointing that the “most advanced” corporate “consultants” use it to “inform” administrative practices. Having no psychological information is oftentimes better than having bad psychological “information.”
The Big Five test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs test for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology—literally.
When we use personality tests that impose categories—like the Meyers Briggs or Astrology—we risk exaggerating the differences between groups and the similarities within them. When this occurs with other types of identities like race or gender, we typically call it “stereotyping” and we try to avoid it. When consultants do it in companies, they are creating the same dynamics and doing it on dubious scientific grounds.
Our latest newsletter explains why the MTBI is a bad measure, but why we are nevertheless obsessed with it! powerofusnewsletter.com/p/wh…
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Today was my last day of medical school and last day of a 9-year-long MD/PhD program at Mount Sinai 🥲
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Sam Powell retweeted
medical jargon:
“empiric” = I don’t know
“differential is broad” = I don’t know
“correlate clinically” = I don’t know
“poor historian” = he/she doesn’t know
“consult rheumatology” = who knows?
With the burnout many of us feel due to constant news cycles and social media, count me in on #NoOpinion, when appropriate. Question is, when is it ok to not be informed about an issue and thus not have an opinion about it? Feel free to not have an opinion on this (ha)…I think?
This Thanksgiving, let's be thankful that we live in a country where you're free to express your opinion, but it's still ok not to have one. #NoOpinion
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HUGE. CRISPR-based therapy for sickle cell disease approved in UK!
UK authorises gene therapy for blood disorders in world first reuters.com/business/healthc…
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We were lucky to have you!
NY, and broader America, have an equitable healthcare access problem. Student clinics can serve as safety nets for underserved populations. Our study validates this in the mental health realm by utilizing CBT while under supervision. Was a privilege to be a part of this program.
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Really proud of this one! Several years in the making. We show that medical students can make great CBT therapists and can provide clinically beneficial therapy to patients in need, who also report that it helps across broad domains of life! #CBT
link.springer.com/article/10…
