madsusanne
@susantonetta.bsky.social
Writer doing memoir, science, neurodiversity. Also poetry. Latest book is The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here. Soon out in 2025 from Counterpoint is The Devil's Castle. Also work in Psychology Today, The Hill, NYT, Orion. Certified mad!
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"The DSM is the beating heart of our psychiatric system, but it was based on the work of a eugenicist." Watch THE DEVIL'S CASTLE author @susantonetta.bsky.social on Cowboy State Daily Show discussing the Nazi underpinnings of mental health care in the U.S.: bit.ly/43funsP @catapultbooks.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"The DSM is the beating heart of our psychiatric system, but it was based on the work of a eugenicist." Watch THE DEVIL'S CASTLE author @susantonetta.bsky.social on Cowboy State Daily Show discussing the Nazi underpinnings of mental health care in the U.S.: bit.ly/43funsP @catapultbooks.bsky.social
Writer & other friends in Olympia, WA: I'll be reading there next Thursday. Come say hello! #writers #writing
browsersolympia.com/events/35790...
browsersolympia.com/events/35790...
Susanne Paola Antonetta: The Devil's Castle | Browsers Bookshop
A charming bookshop in downtown Olympia, WA. Since 1935.
browsersolympia.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Writer & other friends in Olympia, WA: I'll be reading there next Thursday. Come say hello! #writers #writing
browsersolympia.com/events/35790...
browsersolympia.com/events/35790...
Friends & writers in & around Seattle: I'll be there a week from today reading at Elliott Bay! Please come! #writers #writing
www.elliottbaybook.com/events/48437
www.elliottbaybook.com/events/48437
Susanne Paola Antonetta w/ Brenda Miller | Elliott Bay Book Company
Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles
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October 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Friends & writers in & around Seattle: I'll be there a week from today reading at Elliott Bay! Please come! #writers #writing
www.elliottbaybook.com/events/48437
www.elliottbaybook.com/events/48437
A new piece up on Psychology Today, about the questions I get when I talk about my new book: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
Improved Psychiatric Care, Through History
The moral treatment, Soteria, trialogue—many experts have found great ways to treat mental distress. Just look at history.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A new piece up on Psychology Today, about the questions I get when I talk about my new book: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
My latest for Psychology Today--how we allowed a German proto-Nazi doctor to guide our psychiatry. What could go wrong?
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
The Doctor Who Trained Nazis and Changed Psychiatry
Emil Kraepelin trained Nazi doctors and helped shape the DSM.
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September 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
My latest for Psychology Today--how we allowed a German proto-Nazi doctor to guide our psychiatry. What could go wrong?
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
For the next four days Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off pre-orders of The Devil's Castle for premium members--a great deal! As my Counterpoint Press points out, B&N is "also an underdog" these days.
July 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For the next four days Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off pre-orders of The Devil's Castle for premium members--a great deal! As my Counterpoint Press points out, B&N is "also an underdog" these days.
I loved this conversation I had with the folks at Wimblu about animal consciousness, orangutans who sign, & what we continue to get so wrong about those who share our umwelt, in their own umwelts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYY...
Meet the Authors | 'Interspecies Conversations' with Susanne Paola Antonetta
YouTube video by Wimblu
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June 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I loved this conversation I had with the folks at Wimblu about animal consciousness, orangutans who sign, & what we continue to get so wrong about those who share our umwelt, in their own umwelts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYY...
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It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
March 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein
A new piece in Psychology Today, referencing my most loathed newspaper article of all time: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
A Mind Greater Than an Alpine Mountain
Could a neurodiverse mind be greater than an alpine mountain? The concept of a "Perception Box" help us value the richness of consciousness.
www.psychologytoday.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A new piece in Psychology Today, referencing my most loathed newspaper article of all time: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
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It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
January 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
The Collegeville Institute is offering a FREE pop-up writing workshop in Ashville on April 5, offering chances to write with prompts, a plenary, & limited 45-minute one-on-one mentoring sessions. I'll offer a free copy of Tell It Slant to my five mentees.
collegevilleinstitute.org/events/event...
collegevilleinstitute.org/events/event...
Pop-Up Writing Workshop, April 5, 2025 (Asheville, NC) - Collegeville Institute
Join us for this pop up writing workshop.
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January 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Collegeville Institute is offering a FREE pop-up writing workshop in Ashville on April 5, offering chances to write with prompts, a plenary, & limited 45-minute one-on-one mentoring sessions. I'll offer a free copy of Tell It Slant to my five mentees.
collegevilleinstitute.org/events/event...
collegevilleinstitute.org/events/event...
A new piece on putting life & consciousness back into psychiatry. (Don't love the illo though)
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
On Consciousness, Psychiatry, and Thought That Isn't Thought
Biologically based mind care has divorced states like despair and delusion from mind and consciousness. Putting them back together can be transformative.
www.psychologytoday.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A new piece on putting life & consciousness back into psychiatry. (Don't love the illo though)
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
Pretty much everything from this year's Consumer Electronics Show seems like a terrible idea that's going to make bad things worse.
January 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Pretty much everything from this year's Consumer Electronics Show seems like a terrible idea that's going to make bad things worse.
My search engine suggested an article to me about neuroscientist Anil Seth, who I wrote about recently for Psychology Today. At the end a little note said the article was partly AI generated. Obviously my article was part of its "training," or whatever you want to call it. What the bleep? #writers
January 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
My search engine suggested an article to me about neuroscientist Anil Seth, who I wrote about recently for Psychology Today. At the end a little note said the article was partly AI generated. Obviously my article was part of its "training," or whatever you want to call it. What the bleep? #writers
My friend Susan calls us the "two-apocalypse" family--spouse & I in Helene, weeks into having clean water again, son Jin unhoused by LA fires. I feel more than I ever have that each day can bring anything, a freefall nausea I don't know what to do with. Somehow we're living God's warning to Noah.
January 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My friend Susan calls us the "two-apocalypse" family--spouse & I in Helene, weeks into having clean water again, son Jin unhoused by LA fires. I feel more than I ever have that each day can bring anything, a freefall nausea I don't know what to do with. Somehow we're living God's warning to Noah.
Yes, exactly.
It shouldn't be possible to become a billionaire. Every billionaire is a policy failure.
January 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Yes, exactly.
Apparently fact-checking is now the opposite of free speech. Jeopardy question to follow.😨
January 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Apparently fact-checking is now the opposite of free speech. Jeopardy question to follow.😨
Lots of us left X due to the Musk & meanness of it. I wonder how this Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively mess is going to come out. I don't know who is right (no one at this point does IMO) but it shows how cruelly & in pursuit of the worst of capitalism social media gets weaponized now. Time to ponder.
January 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Lots of us left X due to the Musk & meanness of it. I wonder how this Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively mess is going to come out. I don't know who is right (no one at this point does IMO) but it shows how cruelly & in pursuit of the worst of capitalism social media gets weaponized now. Time to ponder.
So far the best summation I've read. "t’s possible, and in fact quite easy, to agree that it was bad to kill someone without retroactively sanitizing the victim."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
MSN
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December 18, 2024 at 7:06 PM
So far the best summation I've read. "t’s possible, and in fact quite easy, to agree that it was bad to kill someone without retroactively sanitizing the victim."
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
So many of us got to BS & let out a breath of relief at the civility of it. What do we do when that starts eroding? Anyone out there have thoughts? & I'm afraid there's plenty of bad behavior on my side of things these days, not as much as the other side, but still. Stay respectful? Can we?
December 6, 2024 at 1:42 AM
So many of us got to BS & let out a breath of relief at the civility of it. What do we do when that starts eroding? Anyone out there have thoughts? & I'm afraid there's plenty of bad behavior on my side of things these days, not as much as the other side, but still. Stay respectful? Can we?
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Since I just started posting here, putting up one of my articles for Psychology Today that I really enjoyed writing & matters to me. Hope you all enjoy as well.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
The Breathtaking Diversity of the Human Mind
Talking about a transformative "perceptual diversity" with neuroscientist Anil Seth gives new ways to consider neurodiversity and the wild creativity of the human mind.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Since I just started posting here, putting up one of my articles for Psychology Today that I really enjoyed writing & matters to me. Hope you all enjoy as well.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...