Archive - Surface Level

Agency, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Psychiatric Care: Q&A with Awais Aftab

Awais Aftab is a psychiatrist whose work focuses on conceptual and critical issues in psychiatry

Jul 10 •

Sophia Laurenzi

My Medium Good June

Decisions from the month (the good, the bad, and the medium)

Jul 3 •

Sophia Laurenzi

June 2025

Selected Inputs #002

What shaped my thoughts on getting back on birth control, the challenges with psych meds, and how the MAHA movement is impacting both

Jun 26 •

Sophia Laurenzi

In and Out of Control

On wrestling with hormonal birth control and psychiatric medication in the age of MAHA

Jun 19 •

Sophia Laurenzi

What I Learned from Editing My Manuscript After a Year Away

How leaving my book helped me return to it

Jun 12 •

Sophia Laurenzi

My Medium Good May

Decisions from this month (the good, the bad, and the medium)

Jun 5 •

Sophia Laurenzi

May 2025

The Problem With Saying Suicide Is Preventable

A conversation I hope more of us can have about mental health

May 29 •

Sophia Laurenzi

Today's execution in Tennessee, and how a television show I never watched led me to death row

May 22 •

Sophia Laurenzi

Selected Inputs #001

What shaped my thoughts on the self-facing camera view, surveilling our own emotions, and what the Narcissus myth is really about

May 15 •

Sophia Laurenzi

If Narcissus Did Teletherapy

On the video call and seeing too much of ourselves

May 8 •

Sophia Laurenzi

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