David Carreon

How Psychiatry Finally Found the Brain

Notes from a Boston conference, two studies that landed on the same number, and the week my field finally stopped looking away from its own organ I flew home from Boston this weekend with a feeling I had never had at this particular conference before. It is the strange and

How Do You Feel?

A Psychiatrist Asks the Machines What They're Feeling Note: this was originally written on March 15, 2026. Anthropic dropped a huge research paper on nearly this exact topic on April 2, 2026. I intend to dissect their findings in more detail soon, but this essay may feel just