March 2012
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February 2012
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“It is, of course, easy to be glib about these questions. As I write this, I am...”
– James Bradley
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Never real and always true: on depression and... →
Another fantastic article! Always relevant…
But across the weeks and months that followed, I grew less comfortable with the term. In part this was because, like so much of the jargon of psychology, it performs the parlour trick of seeming to offer understanding while actually erasing it. Not for nothing does William Styron rage against it, declaring that: ‘For over seventy years the word...
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The Decline and Fall of Parental Authority →
A very very excellent article! This article summarizes, addresses, and offers sound evidence on essentially everything I’ve been thinking about over the past year.
psychotherapy:
via Psychotherapy Networker:
It’s no accident that since the economic implosion of 2008, following decades of stagnant or declining income across the socioeconomic spectrum (except for the very top), the tone of...
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“There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a...”
– Peter Thiel
Oooh, kinky ideas are kinky. This is the societal myth of Higher Education (the discipline-based approach), which supports the myth that orients human life toward “Accessing the Unknown through Scientific Advancement through Technology”. But the mechanistic world view is...
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“Remember that the word psychiatry means ‘healing the soul’, not ‘medicating the...”
– Elio Frattaroli (via psychotherapy) 