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The “Evidence-Based” myth of mental health treatment.
I use evidence based practices, but I’m often not really happy about saying it. When someone is suffering some sort…
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: Both modern and antimodern :
More than any other culture in the world, the Western tradition has been one focused on propositional clarity, certainty, fixity…
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: Embrace vicissitude, adapt, or Die!! Republicans ARE Killing Us – Literally!!! :
I am so far behind on my email that I now have over 600 emails to go through, so it…
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: Zizek on the greatness of Freud :
This is from The Metastases of Enjoyment , a very early book (1993): Although one finds in Freud some passages…
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: VIDEO: Response to Response on Sapolsky v. Dennett Debate :
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted a video. Restart the clock. In this video, I critique Outside Philosopher’s critique…
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That’s right!
www.instagram.com/reel/C5LkdwMrG6G/ You’re music is just as good as this. Whatever you listen to! 👽
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There is Philosophy., and then there is Philosophy.
The more I see, and the more I know, it is not I realize that there is less that I…
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Mathematical Realism, and comment
Mathematical Realism – From Intuition to Esoterica — Read on www.academia.edu/46897260/Mathematical_Realism_From_Intuition_to_Esoterica — Interesting manner of opening the empirical to… what?…
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: World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe, and philosophy.
A meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise the basic model first formulated in 1922 that the universe is a…
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: World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe, and philosophy.
A meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise the basic model first formulated in 1922 that the universe is a…
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: DO LEFT NIETZSCHEANS EAT MARXIST BABIES? (1): Matthew Sharpe teaches the controversy :
Matthew Sharpe’s lengthy review of Aymeric Monville’s book “Misère du nietzschéisme de gauche: de George Bataille à Michel Onfray” (soon…
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Udio | “making love to a kitchen table in Rhianna style”
Discover, create, and share music with the world. — Read on www.udio.com/pricing —- let AI supply your daily soundtrack needs.…
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: You Are A Human Breathing :
You cannot claim to value life itself, the sacredness of all that happens without a person’s deliberate action or intervention,…
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: Political Philosophy: Ancients vs. Moderns :
The history of political philosophy is often divided between the classics (or ancients) in contradistinction to the moderns. Political philosophy,…
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Mental Health: Ideological Set as point for confusion
Cultural awareness and respect of identity is such a PC buzz-practice that often we miss the significance of ideological sets.…
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Data as an ideological set: Tech companies finding the edge of colonialism?
If the “data” that the internet homes is itself assuming a certain kind of understanding, a certain meaning of what…
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: The Mystery Of Life :
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved,but a reality to be experienced.Alan Wilson Watts The Mystery…
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Mental health, Orientation
Some thought full axioms to ponder about what is happening. There is nothing wrong with you. The problem is the…
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: Right Now:
I have been living without direction, stuck, bouncing from a pretend past to a fabricated future. I glorified the way…
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The Brain as a Symbolic Object of Representation – and Comment.
Throughout history and various cultures, the understanding of the connection between the human ‘soul’, ‘mind’, and body has varied. In…
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:Some Sunny Saturday Smiles:
Some Sunny Saturday Smiles
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Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani Victim Of ‘Massive Theft’ By Interpreter = Gambling Addiction
Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara was fired after questions arose around $4.5 million in wire transfers made to a SoCal bookie now…
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Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage
This paper from Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello, Felix Cheung, and Michael Inzlicht has been published in Communications Psychology. The abstract…
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: Foods Good for Depression:
There are many foods that have been proven to be good for depression, and many of them are actually foods……
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What? Depression is not caused by a neurochemical imbalance ?
www.purplepenpodcast.com/home/2024/3/17/ppp-159-deprescribing-psychotropics-with-dr-mark-horowitz — Love. And my inspired comment: Of course we have to wait for the study, because while people do…
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Drugs are bad…uh, I mean they are ok…wait…I mean drugs are like anything else for mental health.
www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/psychedelics-are-about-to-become-a-casualty-of-oregon-s-opioid-crisis/ar-BB1k03WP There is no magic pill. or, maybe sometimes, under certain conditions… And that means: Law.
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:: What is our deepest drive?
In our inner lives, drives and desires are powerful factors that shape our goals, motivations, and actions. They arise from…
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:: Effects of Food on Mental Health
There are many factors that affect our mental health during the day. The weather, your responsibilities, your plans during the…
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On philosophy, Counseling, Psychology, Mental Health, and Orientation in things.
Profits and novel ideas are nice. But yield a problematic mental health. The coming 2024 book that questions our modern…
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:: La Toupie folle – The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts
La Toupie folle – The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts Our research project, The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts funded by a Small Grant…
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:: Dark Night Reflections
It is ok to feel like crap while going through a negative experience in life. Negative experiences are the vicissitudes…
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:: Early Morning Philosophy & Spirituality Rant
I’ve been making spirituality personal at times lately. It’s hard to resist that urge. I’ve made it personal on my…
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:: Existential Comics: the philosophy of magic
What is the difference between magic and science? It’s been a while since I shared an Existential Comic. This one gets…
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:: Rollin’ Out More ‘Toons …
Well, once again my ‘toon file is overflowing, and maybe it’s a good thing, for anything I would write today…
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::The Augustinian Imperative: Saint Augustine and the Discovery of the Self
The Augustinian Imperative is, as scholar William E. Connolly writes, “the quest to move closer to one’s truest self by…
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We will not change…and mental health.
Celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern is asking you to save the foods we love. — Read on www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-zimmern_l_65bd4ef4e4b0102bd2d9263f —- but we…
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:: Gnosis
Being the Greek noun for “knowledge”. Gnosis
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:: Interview: Lance of The Veritable Counsel
This is the first interview of 2024 and I am hoping there will be many more. After I posted that…
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::Beginning Treatment – Jonathan Shedler. And small comment.
The producers of this video say: “Dr. Jonathan Shedler is well known for his work on the efficacy of psychodynamic…
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:: The Revolution in the West and The Theologico-Political Question
“All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical…
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the Covert Sound Philosophy | ReverbNation
Lie For Your Love. www.reverbnation.com/covertsoundphilosophy —– philosophy, aesthetics, and mental health in one nice moment.
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:: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Paradox
By Steve Goreham & Joseph E. Postma What portion of the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is caused by…
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‘::This is weird’: Experts ‘shocked’ by record-breaking longevity of Death Valley’s phantom lake
No sign of any blame being attached to human activities, in this article at least. – – – A temporary…
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Disordered Brain? Is that what’s really happening with mental disorder ?
lancek4.com/2023/02/25/mental-disorder-a-phenomenological-phantom/
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Too Ironic: Uh oh !
Links between Unrwa and Hamas illustrate how this now thoroughly dysfunctional organization has become an insult to all civilized countries.…
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:: Marxism and Woke Ideology
Woke ideology is Marxist. We have commonly heard this retort as Woke ideology and activism has spread over the past…
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:: The Mapping of Stories
Kurt Vonnegut took an early interest in what he considered the fundamental “shapes” of stories… Stories have very simple shapes,…
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:: Questions that keep me awake
Where did the descendants of the ancient Egyptians go? Were they wiped off the surface of the esrth by disease?…
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:: February Arctic ice ahead of recent comparisons
February Arctic Ice Jumps Over 15 Wadhams a Month Early – – – Let’s see how this plays out over the…
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:: Renaming schizophrenia: a Japanese perspective
This paper from Mitsumoto Sato has been published by World Psychiatry. The abstract says: “In order to contribute to reduce…
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El Niño fading, ‘good chance’ of La Niña to follow says atmospheric physicist
Natural phenomena dictating weather patterns. The El Niño of 2023-24 is described as ‘strange’, possibly due to some extent to…
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:: “Man is not disturbed by events, but by the view he takes of them”*…
From Stripe Partners, a framework for rethinking the way we talk about the AI future… AI is both a new…
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We have reached it: Megaregions of the USA.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/EyXCA3NpOh
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A country of children seem to want old men to lead them.
View Nevada’s primary election results for the 2024 Democratic and Republican primary elections. For more information, visit cnn.com/election. — Read…
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:: The Internet
The most important invention in your lifetime is… ? How would you answer this question? The Internet
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:: Human Consciousness and the end of Materialism
This article provides some insight on how and why the explanation of human consciousness might be the reason for a…
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Lance’s Dilemma: Some philosophy
https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophyandfiction/p/the-most-misunderstood-philosopher?r=2dg72n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email ——- I’m getting confused on the switching between blog apps. I’m sure my learning spot will catch up on…
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Buy n Large
https://www.reddit.com/r/whenthe/s/3gSyXJqbBp
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merika 🤠
https://www.reddit.com/r/shitposting/s/wgTTJay3Z0
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Do we grow up
Governmental politics is 15 year old minds playing popularity games, but now for real money and power. It is a…
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radical meaning.
“originating in the root or ground;” of body parts or fluids, “vital to life,” from Latin… See origin and meaning…
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See Trump Archive fact checks in one place | Internet Archive Blogs
See Trump Archive fact checks in one place | Internet Archive Blogs — Read on blog.archive.org/2017/01/13/see-trump-archive-fact-checks-in-one-place/ —- Yup.
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Liberal for Nikki
Old fart men of the past… Or new woman future? Let’s start to come back to the United States of…
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:: “NON”-FANS ARE STRANGE READERS: on the advantages of non-curated feedback
THE NEOLIBERAL REBIRTH OF THE AUTHOR Much discussion was provoked by the affirmation of the “death” of the author popularised…
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:: Cosmic voids and dark energy
Cosmic voids may cause dark energy, or at least provide an explanation for the Hubble tension. A team of Iranian…
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:: Is it a valid POV?
I’ll confess, I always cringe a little bit every time I read the noun ‘human’… coming from humans. Is there…
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:: Saving psychiatry from itself: will young psychiatrists choose authoritarian power or authoritative respect?
This editorial comment from John Read appears in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. It begins: “In their important paper, ‘Images of psychiatry…
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:: Back With More ‘Toons!
Well, friends, my stash of cartoons is overflowing once again, so it’s time to share some of the fun. I…
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What is Existence? Submit your article for publication!
What am I thinking? I know nothing, yet I know I am me. I question everything. And yet I believe…
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Chapter 6: Deontology – The Object of the Subject
The Philosophical Hack uses Slavoj Zizek’s book ‘Event’ as a platform from which to hack into philosophy. A hack is…
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The Bottom of the Rabbit Hole
youtu.be/j319TD10I1g https://youtu.be/j319TD10I1g?si=ZLInubcG1KwCUIRN not sure why it didn’t embed. Probly the stupit indernet. But Of Course! So Sit back and get…
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::Human Zoo: The Sad History Of Freak Shows In Photos
Before the modern advances in medicine, social care, and sympathy for the disabled and unfortunate, people born with deformities had…
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:: A more than philosophical Philosophy Novel.
https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/a-footnote-to-plato-by-tina-lee-forsee
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:: Beyond The Shadows: Deciphering The Phenomenological Reduction – Part 1
The things that we experience, including our own human self, its history and its fundamental situatedness within a context, i.e.…
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:: The influence of paid opinion leaders on the prescribing of antidepressants in the UK
A former NHS psychiatrist has submitted two rapid responses to the BMJ (British Medical Journal) in relation to this published letter: Reversing…
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Onward Christian … what ?
The newly unsealed court documents are part of a now-settled civil suit brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell. —…
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:: Welcome To The United States Of Lunacy
Five headlines in my own city from Christmas Day: Multiple people injured during shooting inside Over-the-Rhine bar Gunfire causes auto…
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That’s two.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/maine-trump-ballot.html
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Yup.
youtu.be/N60ceYRlY2I
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Our US choices for President in 2024 .
A. The Old Guy with Early Dementia. B. The Retirement Home Dunce. I feel like aliens brought me here and…
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The Price for mental health treatment is insane.
Only one-third of Americans with a behavioral health condition received treatment within a year of their diagnosis. That’s based on…
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Open Up and Be Present
policestatefilm.net/ Knowledge and understanding is key ti a functioning democracy. How did the message of this movie square with Trump’s…
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Spread the Word
momsforamerica.us/ A public service announcement. If we listen only to people who think the same we we do, we create…
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:: Today In ‘Toons!!!
It is a source of constant amazement to me that the political cartoonists can keep cranking them out at this…
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Hells yeah!
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Still another shrinking of our sense of time.
www.instagram.com/reel/C1DaFgtADsP/ As I have posted before about colorizing of old back and white photos helps us to realize our humanity…
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Scientists design non-hallucinogenic psychedelic treatments potentially accelerating research on mental health benefits
Researchers identified 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A (5-HT2A) receptor (5-HT2AR) signaling pathways associated with psychedelic potential. :: I don’t know what all the…
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What’s right
“We do not reach these conclusions lightly,” the court wrote in its decision on Trump’s 14th Amendment violations. — Read…
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‘Blood of Our Country’? | The New York Sun
There is no American race, only an American story. And immigrants are among its grandest protagonists. — Read on www.nysun.com/article/blood-of-our-country
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:: Enlightenment Now?
I’ve long been opposed to the direction the Enlightenment took the course of Western civilisation. I’m not religious or spiritual,…
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:: How Latin Became Modern Italian
In my last post, I explored some ways in which a new language is born. This post examines one of…
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The interstitium. (it is such a new piece of information that the Internet wants to auto correct the spelling).
Medical researchers have found a network of fluid-filled spaces that they’d not really noticed before in connective tissue all over…
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A Few Historical Photos in Colour
Most of these photos were later colourised after being taken of course. Freed slaves in America, 1865. Native Americans in…
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The Guardian: Making News Instead of Reporting it?
Sultan Al Jaber says his statement on fossil fuels was “taken out of context,” but a full, unedited video of…
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Clinical Trials
Well, I was making my breakfast this morning, my thoughts went to various ideas concerning mental health. This morning in…
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We are so hip and dark !
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Change changes
agencymatters.org making sense of your world.
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:: Taking Care of Yourself During a PhD: My Personal Story
Going through a PhD is tough, not just for your brain but also for your feelings. I learned this the…
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:: The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change
“A fundamental shift is required within the field of mental health … There is an overreliance on biomedical approaches to…
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