Bibliography
Resources.
18 sources cited across published episodes.
Every study, article, and guideline referenced in a Frustratingly Simple episode. Marked URL_NEEDS_VERIFICATION when the source is real but the link is unverified.
Studies (9)
Behavioural activation for depression: an effectiveness review
Cuijpers et al. 2007
The actual evidence base behind 'dopamine detox' practice.
Behavioural and physiological effects of slow breathing
Zaccaro et al. 2018
Acute-effect evidence; useful to ground "yes it does something" claim.
Coercive control: a definitional and conceptual review
Stark 2007
The framework that gives 'gaslighting' its clinical home.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder — meta-analysis
Mayo-Wilson et al. 2014 (Lancet Psychiatry)
Strong evidence base for CBT in social anxiety, supporting the "responds to treatment" claim.
Comparing physician and AI chatbot responses to patient questions
Ayers et al. 2023 (JAMA Internal Medicine)
Useful empirical comparison; note the "empathy" finding had real methodological limits.
Concept creep: psychology's expanding concepts of harm and pathology
Haslam 2016 (Psychological Inquiry)
The academic frame for why the inflation of clinical terms costs precision.
Polyvagal Theory: a critical appraisal
Grossman 2023 (Biological Psychology)
Important corrective to over-applied polyvagal framing.
Prevalence and correlates of personality disorders in a community sample
Trull et al. 2010
Source for ~1% prevalence range for NPD.
The therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome: a meta-analytic review
Horvath et al. 2011
The empirical basis for why AI cannot easily replace the working alliance.
Articles (8)
AI chatbots in mental health: limitations and considerations
Graham et al. 2019
Boundary-setting on what current AI tools can credibly do.
AI in mental health: a review of the state of the field
Graham et al. 2019
Useful boundary on what current AI mental health tools can and can't do.
Bereavement-related depression: when grief becomes a clinical concern
Zisook & Shear 2009 (World Psychiatry)
The bridge between the two — co-occurrence and the clinical threshold question.
DSM-5-TR criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder
APA
The actual diagnostic criteria.
DSM-5-TR Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
APA
Canonical source for the narrow Criterion A definition.
Gaslighting: a sociological concept worth taking seriously
Sweet 2019 (American Sociological Review)
Clear academic treatment of the term — useful counter to internet usage.
Prolonged Grief Disorder in DSM-5-TR
APA
The newer diagnostic category for grief that does become clinically stuck.
The dopamine myth — Stanford neurosciences review
Anna Lembke
Useful primer on misinterpretation of dopamine signalling.
Books (1)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Useful counterweight to the assumption that introversion is a problem.