Dr. Robert Maunder
@boiby.bsky.social
Psychiatrist, writer. I write about attachment, health, trauma… University of Toronto Press. 🇨🇦 Away from the office, I post pictures of birds. https://linktr.ee/bobmaunder
Edie’s strength—the self-proclaimed worry wart who opposed her mad father when no one else would, worked without education, & managed her family through beer storms and the Depression—somehow matched malignant forces that were in motion long before she was born.
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Bone-boilers and Kneecappers
Trouble passed down generations from Cornelius and Annie, to William and Florence, and then to Edie
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February 8, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Edie’s strength—the self-proclaimed worry wart who opposed her mad father when no one else would, worked without education, & managed her family through beer storms and the Depression—somehow matched malignant forces that were in motion long before she was born.
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Urban eagle. A juvenile bald eagle in the city🪶
February 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Urban eagle. A juvenile bald eagle in the city🪶
Cooper’s Hawk today in Toronto. -17 but nice and sunny. 🪶
February 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Cooper’s Hawk today in Toronto. -17 but nice and sunny. 🪶
Validation is not agreement, and it helps
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Validating an Anti-Vaxxer
Others who take your inner life seriously will help you to endure the world's unreasonable silence
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February 7, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Validation is not agreement, and it helps
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Hooded merganser thinks it is a goldeneye. This pair has been inseparable lately. 🪶
February 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Hooded merganser thinks it is a goldeneye. This pair has been inseparable lately. 🪶
Elijah didn’t drive alone. Charger was always in the shotgun seat beside him, and usually they were on their way to a park... Elijah would drive around, looking for good places for a dog to run and for a good place for him to jump.
Yalom's Spare Prescription
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Yalom's Spare Prescription
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Yalom's Spare Prescription
Making meaning where there was none
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January 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Elijah didn’t drive alone. Charger was always in the shotgun seat beside him, and usually they were on their way to a park... Elijah would drive around, looking for good places for a dog to run and for a good place for him to jump.
Yalom's Spare Prescription
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Yalom's Spare Prescription
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Carmen's fourth specialist was useless to her. There was nothing that he could say that would carry weight; he gave that authority away with his brisk indifference to her experience...
#pain #healthcare
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#pain #healthcare
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In Doc We Trust?
A woman in pain decides whose medical facts to believe
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January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Carmen's fourth specialist was useless to her. There was nothing that he could say that would carry weight; he gave that authority away with his brisk indifference to her experience...
#pain #healthcare
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#pain #healthcare
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The goals of psychiatric care - more freedom, less cruelty, less suffering - are brought into relief by the story of a woman who chose medically assisted death. open.substack.com/pub/bobmaund...
Life & Death
Goals for change: more freedom, less cruelty, less suffering
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January 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The goals of psychiatric care - more freedom, less cruelty, less suffering - are brought into relief by the story of a woman who chose medically assisted death. open.substack.com/pub/bobmaund...
Reposted by Dr. Robert Maunder
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Hooded Merganser and Goldeneye toodling around icy water 🪶
January 3, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Hooded Merganser and Goldeneye toodling around icy water 🪶
Light was beautiful this afternoon on Frenchman’s Bay, Lake Ontario 🪶
January 1, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Light was beautiful this afternoon on Frenchman’s Bay, Lake Ontario 🪶
My night with Harry foreshadowed a career in medicine. This is what we do… using whatever blunt tools are available to buy time, waiting for a better solution, knowing that the stakes are high, the solution is often elusive, and that just being there may be the best medicine we have to offer.
December 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My night with Harry foreshadowed a career in medicine. This is what we do… using whatever blunt tools are available to buy time, waiting for a better solution, knowing that the stakes are high, the solution is often elusive, and that just being there may be the best medicine we have to offer.
I Haven’t Met You Yet
The Cure for Inauthenticity is Human Connection
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December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This was exciting (to me). On a day with no birds to see except gulls and chickadees - my very first sighting of a Northern Shrike. 🪶
December 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This was exciting (to me). On a day with no birds to see except gulls and chickadees - my very first sighting of a Northern Shrike. 🪶
Irvin Yalom asserts humans are "'the uncontested authors' of their lives... individuals create everything... including their own suffering. I have no idea how a thoughtful, observant, person who spent a life in the business of caring for others could believe that."
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Freedom of a Sort
A Psychiatrist Wrestles with Autonomy and Coercion
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December 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Irvin Yalom asserts humans are "'the uncontested authors' of their lives... individuals create everything... including their own suffering. I have no idea how a thoughtful, observant, person who spent a life in the business of caring for others could believe that."
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Rough surf for the long-tails on windy cold Lake Ontario 🪶
December 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Rough surf for the long-tails on windy cold Lake Ontario 🪶
Adverse Childood Experience (ACEs) and high ACE counts trending down from 2016 to 2023 in one large US study. I hope this is real. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Adverse Childhood Experiences Decline in US
The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences seems to be trending down, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Adverse Childood Experience (ACEs) and high ACE counts trending down from 2016 to 2023 in one large US study. I hope this is real. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Harrier and gulls on new ice 🪶
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Harrier and gulls on new ice 🪶