Orestis Zavlis
@orestiszavlis.bsky.social
@UCL PhD Student in Computational Psychoanalysis
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Orestis Zavlis
@orestiszavlis.bsky.social
· Nov 16
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As a first post to Bluesky, I'd like to share some of our most recent and hopeful work that formalizes (static) personality disorders as (dynamic) relational disorders: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-bored...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-bored...
ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable
Exploring the relationship between ADHD and boredom
www.psychiatrymargins.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-bored...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-bored...
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Machinery of Misbelief
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
Machinery of Misbelief
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
www.psychiatrymargins.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Machinery of Misbelief
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
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Reposting for the Monday crowd 👇🏽
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposting for the Monday crowd 👇🏽
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“We are made by relationships. Most meaning, as well as suffering, is found in relationships. Our entire sense of self only makes sense within the context of relationships.” @orestiszavlis.bsky.social 👇🏽
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“We are made by relationships. Most meaning, as well as suffering, is found in relationships. Our entire sense of self only makes sense within the context of relationships.” @orestiszavlis.bsky.social 👇🏽
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Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
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@awaisaftab.bsky.social Thanks for posting this interesting Substack on personality disordered- definitely a new paradigm , via computational psychiatry.
open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...
open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
open.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@awaisaftab.bsky.social Thanks for posting this interesting Substack on personality disordered- definitely a new paradigm , via computational psychiatry.
open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...
open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...
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“… the idea that there is a general latent entity, ‘personality,’ that causes difficulties in self-relating and other-relating. In my eyes, this idea is both empirically and conceptually untenable…” @orestiszavlis.bsky.social 👇🏽
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
A guest post by @orestiszavlis.bsky.social on a new generative model and insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/personalit...
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
www.psychiatrymargins.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“… the idea that there is a general latent entity, ‘personality,’ that causes difficulties in self-relating and other-relating. In my eyes, this idea is both empirically and conceptually untenable…” @orestiszavlis.bsky.social 👇🏽
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How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?
Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
🧵:
Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
🧵:
Accuracy and Consistency of Visual Analog Scales in Ecological Momentary Assessment and Digital Studies
The ubiquity of digital technologies has increased assessments of thoughts, behaviors, and experiences via electronic devices. Surveys on smartphones or laptops often implement Visual Analogue Scales ...
online.ucpress.edu
August 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?
Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
🧵:
Examined in a massive EMA study (N = 3,761), our new #OpenAccess piece on this is just out:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
🧵:
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How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️
In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️
In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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RFK Jr. says he wants the “gold standard” of science so he used AI to write his error-riddled MAHA disinformation report.
I guess he should have used Au instead.
I guess he should have used Au instead.
May 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
RFK Jr. says he wants the “gold standard” of science so he used AI to write his error-riddled MAHA disinformation report.
I guess he should have used Au instead.
I guess he should have used Au instead.
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Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
April 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
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New: Labour plans to cut disability benefits instead of imposing a wealth tax. Ben Jennings’ cartoon nails it.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
March 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New: Labour plans to cut disability benefits instead of imposing a wealth tax. Ben Jennings’ cartoon nails it.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
A government that fines disabled people while letting the rich park wherever they want—both literally and politically.
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First, we provide evidence that increasing public support for redistributive policy (the CTC) across racial/ethnic and partisan lines is possible with well-designed messages that center shared values, describe policy efficacy, and include a call to collective action.
January 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
First, we provide evidence that increasing public support for redistributive policy (the CTC) across racial/ethnic and partisan lines is possible with well-designed messages that center shared values, describe policy efficacy, and include a call to collective action.
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Super happy to share on HAL (open access) our @bmj.com paper « Fragile promise of psychedelics in psychiatry »
Fragile promise of psychedelics in psychiatry
hal.science
January 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Super happy to share on HAL (open access) our @bmj.com paper « Fragile promise of psychedelics in psychiatry »
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Can you help me build a list of things that are (or might be) wrong in the current HiTOP model while I'm sick and recovering on the couch? Some of my top hunches are:
-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
1/2
-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
1/2
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Can you help me build a list of things that are (or might be) wrong in the current HiTOP model while I'm sick and recovering on the couch? Some of my top hunches are:
-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
1/2
-My PhD was wrong (☹️) and low sexual function shouldn’t be neatly nested under internalizing
1/2
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Happy to share that our (Vera Du, @jdmiller.bsky.social, & @drlynam.bsky.social) paper, “Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Daily Life: An Exploratory ESM Study”, has been officially published in Aggressive Behavior and is now available open access. (1/n)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Daily Life: An Exploratory Experience‐Sampling Method Study
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January 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Happy to share that our (Vera Du, @jdmiller.bsky.social, & @drlynam.bsky.social) paper, “Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Daily Life: An Exploratory ESM Study”, has been officially published in Aggressive Behavior and is now available open access. (1/n)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️
In this cross-country study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
In this cross-country study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
December 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️
In this cross-country study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
In this cross-country study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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Can be read without shuddering. Best review so far….
Thank you @keirwales.bsky.social and Hollie Berrigan for a validating overview of ‘personality disorder’. Rare I read a textbook on the label I carry, without shuddering!
December 9, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Can be read without shuddering. Best review so far….
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Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East
We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...
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November 27, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter
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Pressing need for clinical trial research on dimensional personality disorder: http://osf.io/ur5qy/
November 25, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Pressing need for clinical trial research on dimensional personality disorder: http://osf.io/ur5qy/
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I just want to say for the record that I am not against preregistration. I understand the usefulness of registration for a priori hypothesis testing. I support any measures for improving our science.
November 24, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I just want to say for the record that I am not against preregistration. I understand the usefulness of registration for a priori hypothesis testing. I support any measures for improving our science.
Very happy to share our new scoping review at Lancet Psychiatry, showing that in the past decade *only 3* clinical trials were conducted on dimensional personality disorder:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Pressing need for clinical trial research on dimensional personality disorder
A decade has passed since the introduction of dimensional diagnostic systems for personality
disorder.1 However, national health guidelines (such as those from the UK's National
Institute of Clinical ...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Very happy to share our new scoping review at Lancet Psychiatry, showing that in the past decade *only 3* clinical trials were conducted on dimensional personality disorder:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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I think one of the things I found so frustrating about Morgan’s story is how professionals completely ignored the idea that a PD is supposed to be a consistent pattern of behaviour, and labeled her based off how she acted in a crisis. I have a lot to say about this bc I see it too often 💬
RIP Morgan Betchley, a 19-year old lovely young woman and an amazing mum. As ever when #ActuallyAutistic, there is scant regard or formal assessment. Thanks as ever to the amazing @georgejulian.bsky.social for the coverage tinyurl.com/44x43z2s and INQUEST. #AutismNotPD Fourth such inquest this year.
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 AM
I think one of the things I found so frustrating about Morgan’s story is how professionals completely ignored the idea that a PD is supposed to be a consistent pattern of behaviour, and labeled her based off how she acted in a crisis. I have a lot to say about this bc I see it too often 💬
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It was a pleasure to give a talk about Global Crises and their impact on Mental Health and Behaviour at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social yesterday.
Really enjoyed the discussions and the clever questions that interdisciplinary environments stimulate.
Really enjoyed the discussions and the clever questions that interdisciplinary environments stimulate.
November 22, 2024 at 10:48 AM
It was a pleasure to give a talk about Global Crises and their impact on Mental Health and Behaviour at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social yesterday.
Really enjoyed the discussions and the clever questions that interdisciplinary environments stimulate.
Really enjoyed the discussions and the clever questions that interdisciplinary environments stimulate.