Dogs And Mental Health

How We Paint Dogs

Thomas W. Laqueur | LitHub | 10th June 2026

On dogs in art history. Interesting throughout. From the Odyssey onwards, dogs have been included in artistic works to "humanise humans". They make us feel less lonely as a species, inject humour, even give a painting an olfactory dimension. "They point to things, they tell us where to look, they make connections both between things in the image and gesture to us as observers of the image" (2,800 words)

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Mental Health (For Humans)

Kenneth Reitz | 6th June 2026

Argument for flipping the way we think about mental health diagnosis. Most patients treat their diagnosis as an immutable identity: "The noun arrives with the gravity of a verdict. Patients receive a diagnosis the way defendants receive a sentence: as a statement about who they are and what their life will now be." In fact, a diagnosis is just a "revisable lookup key that exists to find treatments faster" (2,500 words)