Archive - Susan T. Mahler, MD

Notable Links (Substack Edition) - Jan 3, 2026

And some personal media favorites from 2025

Published on Psychiatry at the Margins • Jan 3

December 2025

Mayo Sojourn: All in the Waiting

I had a strange experience, on my second day of tests at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dec 19, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

August 2025

The Oath of Mediocrates

I thought this could be a group project. The Hippocratic Oath and Oath of Maimonides are both used at the conclusion of medical training. This is my…

Aug 12, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

July 2025

Paradigm shifts and 3D tic-tac-toe: thinking about time in psychotherapy

In Madeleine Thien’s philosophical, millennia-spanning novel, “The Book of Records,” the stories of Hannah Arendt, Baruch Spinoza and the Chinese poet…

Jul 31, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

June 2025

Life Lessons from the Wind River Mountains

At the age of 19, in 1985, I flew into Landers, Wyoming, for a month-long wilderness course in the Wind River Mountains.

Jun 29, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

May 2025

Written on her soul: Jouissance and the inheritance of daughters

This post is dedicated to my mother, Ida May Mahler, may her name be a blessing. And to Dr. Nancy Chodorow, with gratitude.

May 30, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

April 2025

Great Medscape article on language in chronic illness

Please scroll down within the paper to the table of "Never Words"- things doctors should not say to patients, and alternatives.

Apr 25, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

I am "WOMI," Hear Me Roar!

A doctor's disenfranchisement, as a patient with complex medical illness.

Apr 20, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

March 2025

Mar 23, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

January 2025

This is Susan T. Mahler, MD.

Jan 30, 2025 • Susan T. Mahler, MD

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