Press Coverage
"Young and Depressed? Try Woebot! The Rise of Mental Health Chatbots in the US," The Guardian, Mark Keierleber, April 13, 2o22: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/chatbots-robot-therapists-youth-mental-health-crisis
“Why health and wellness tech can make so many BS claims: Regulators and internet companies are playing defense,” Mashable, Rachel Kraus, July 20, 2021: https://mashable.com/article/health-wellness-tech-false-claims
“Artificial intelligence tools for monitoring employees come with complications,” Houston Chronicle, Chris Tomlinson, March 21, 2021; https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Artificial-intelligence-tools-for-monitoring-16047143.php
“Researcher warns about dangers of AI chatbots for treating mental illness,” UTSA Today, by Milady Nazir, July 8 2020: https://www.utsa.edu/today/2020/07/story/chatbots-artificial-intelligence.html
“Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data: Digital diagnosis could transform psychiatry by mining your most intimate data for clues. But is the privacy cost worth it?” MIT Technology Review, by David Adam, August 13 2020:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/13/1006573/digital-psychiatry-phenotyping-schizophrenia-bipolar-privacy/
“What if we pull the plug too early?’In the age of COVID-19, decisions about death are fraught,” San Antonio Express News, by Lauran Caruba, September 4 2020:
https://www.expressnews.com/coronavirus/article/COVID-19-decisions-about-death-15538800.php
“Mental Health in the US is Suffering—Will It Go Back to Normal? Covid-19 has left lots of people feeling anxious and depressed. But it’s hard to untangle whether this is a normal response to a difficult situation or actual pathology,” WIRED Magazine, by Grace Huckins, September 8, 2020: https://www.wired.com/story/mental-health-in-the-us-is-suffering-will-it-go-back-to-normal/
Popular Press Publications
Tekin, Ş. 2021. An Impossible Feedback Loop” | The Year in Mental Health, The Drift Magazine, Issue 4, May 6, 202:https://www.thedriftmag.com/mental-health/
Tekin, Ş. 2020. Health Disparities in COVID-19 Triage Protocols. Impact Ethics Blog: Making a Difference in Bioethics.
Tekin, Ş. 2020. Tele-psychiatry Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Blog.
Tekin, Ş., Bluhm, R. 2019. The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. Imperfect Cognitions Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2018. Creeping vs. Sweeping Reductionism in Addiction Research. Imperfect Cognitions Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2018. There is Such Thing as The Self and It is Empirically Tractable. Aeon Magazine.
Tekin, Ş. 2017. Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mental Health Research.
Imperfect Cognitions Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2017. The Missing Self in Psychiatry. Featured Philosopher Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2016. Are mental disorders natural kinds? Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases.
Tekin, Ş. 2012. Remembering Ulric Neisser. Brains: A Blog on Philosophy of Mind and Related Matters.
Tekin, Ş. 2012. Psychiatry: Far from the Madding Grief. Hesperus is Bosphorus: A Group Blog by Philosophers in and from Turkey.
Tekin, Ş. 2011. What is Empirically Informed Philosophy of Mind? Brains: A Blog on Philosophy of Mind and Related Matters.
Tekin, Ş. 2011. A Query into Mental Illness Memoirs: Does Writing Help Psychiatric Patients? Neuroethics and Law Blog.
"Young and Depressed? Try Woebot! The Rise of Mental Health Chatbots in the US," The Guardian, Mark Keierleber, April 13, 2o22: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/chatbots-robot-therapists-youth-mental-health-crisis
“Why health and wellness tech can make so many BS claims: Regulators and internet companies are playing defense,” Mashable, Rachel Kraus, July 20, 2021: https://mashable.com/article/health-wellness-tech-false-claims
“Artificial intelligence tools for monitoring employees come with complications,” Houston Chronicle, Chris Tomlinson, March 21, 2021; https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Artificial-intelligence-tools-for-monitoring-16047143.php
“Researcher warns about dangers of AI chatbots for treating mental illness,” UTSA Today, by Milady Nazir, July 8 2020: https://www.utsa.edu/today/2020/07/story/chatbots-artificial-intelligence.html
“Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data: Digital diagnosis could transform psychiatry by mining your most intimate data for clues. But is the privacy cost worth it?” MIT Technology Review, by David Adam, August 13 2020:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/13/1006573/digital-psychiatry-phenotyping-schizophrenia-bipolar-privacy/
“What if we pull the plug too early?’In the age of COVID-19, decisions about death are fraught,” San Antonio Express News, by Lauran Caruba, September 4 2020:
https://www.expressnews.com/coronavirus/article/COVID-19-decisions-about-death-15538800.php
“Mental Health in the US is Suffering—Will It Go Back to Normal? Covid-19 has left lots of people feeling anxious and depressed. But it’s hard to untangle whether this is a normal response to a difficult situation or actual pathology,” WIRED Magazine, by Grace Huckins, September 8, 2020: https://www.wired.com/story/mental-health-in-the-us-is-suffering-will-it-go-back-to-normal/
Popular Press Publications
Tekin, Ş. 2021. An Impossible Feedback Loop” | The Year in Mental Health, The Drift Magazine, Issue 4, May 6, 202:https://www.thedriftmag.com/mental-health/
Tekin, Ş. 2020. Health Disparities in COVID-19 Triage Protocols. Impact Ethics Blog: Making a Difference in Bioethics.
Tekin, Ş. 2020. Tele-psychiatry Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Blog.
Tekin, Ş., Bluhm, R. 2019. The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. Imperfect Cognitions Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2018. Creeping vs. Sweeping Reductionism in Addiction Research. Imperfect Cognitions Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2018. There is Such Thing as The Self and It is Empirically Tractable. Aeon Magazine.
Tekin, Ş. 2017. Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mental Health Research.
Imperfect Cognitions Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2017. The Missing Self in Psychiatry. Featured Philosopher Blog.
Tekin, Ş. 2016. Are mental disorders natural kinds? Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases.
Tekin, Ş. 2012. Remembering Ulric Neisser. Brains: A Blog on Philosophy of Mind and Related Matters.
Tekin, Ş. 2012. Psychiatry: Far from the Madding Grief. Hesperus is Bosphorus: A Group Blog by Philosophers in and from Turkey.
Tekin, Ş. 2011. What is Empirically Informed Philosophy of Mind? Brains: A Blog on Philosophy of Mind and Related Matters.
Tekin, Ş. 2011. A Query into Mental Illness Memoirs: Does Writing Help Psychiatric Patients? Neuroethics and Law Blog.
