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The Rise of AI and The Humans Left Behind: A True Short Story
Part I: The Rise of AI “Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.” –Nora Ephron End of an Era: The Free and Neutral Information Highway It’ll be two years this December 14th. Our loss of internet neutrality. It…
Read MoreNaming Madness & Saving Normal
Imagining Something New They did it. They succeeded in helping me see myself as a bipolar defective again instead of the talented, strong, intelligent and beautiful human being that I really am. In the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, starring Robin Williams and Matt Damon, psychologist Sean Macguire tries an alternative approach to reach…
Read MoreIn Loving Memory of the Taj Mahal on 9/11, Chalk Art Day
The Memories That Won’t Wash Away … For Americans in other parts of the country, it’s just an annual remembrance of a distant tragedy, not really affecting them very personally at all. But in NYC, the anniversary of September 11th marks a solemn day of unease. The shadows of yesterday are alive downtown where the…
Read MoreMy Case Against the Psychiatric Institution: The Full Report and Nothing But The Truth
A Cause Worth Fighting For: My Freedom The Politics of Psychiatry Critics of psychiatry encompass far more than the scientologists. Many are affected by the institution’s wrongdoings. Over two decades have passed since I was first labeled a bipolar mental case, and psychiatry has never evolved in its perception of the human mind. Their theories…
Read MoreElimination of the Mentally Ill: the Genetic Undesirable
The Human Genome How could anyone who has not been on the receiving end of getting tagged and put into a category of the “mentally ill” for their personal thoughts and emotions, know the feeling of being singled out and ostracized as abnormal? Only we can truly understand the warped mindsets originating from long…
Read MorePsychiatric Labeling: A Modern Day Crime
We Are Not Behavior Alone In 1994, I was labeled with bipolar disorder. I always hated to divulge this juicy nugget of info to doctors or budding friends, and I never revealed it to employers. By sharing this label I was submitting to society’s stigma and thwarted conclusion of what everyone felt this “illness” actually…
Read MoreFreud’s Psychoanalysis: Is It Time We Moved On?
Psychiatry’s Relationship to Psychoanalysis I can’t get away from it. I see them everywhere. The four-eyed doctors sitting with analytical cruelty behind a one-dimensional interpretation of reality that I see as senseless. There she is. As I exit the Mount Kisco Greek diner she’s sitting there proud and straight-backed, robotic and brainwashed. It’s Dr. Innez.…
Read MoreBiological Psychology: Stealing the Mysteries of Our Futures…
The Biomedical Model Let us ring in the new year with the latest scientific discovery. Last week science writer, Jenny Chen, writes an article in The Atlantic, “Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?” and within days links and commentary were published all over the web. Prominent news sites like the Chicago Sun-Times, International Psychologists, and…
Read MoreChemical Imbalances: Established Science or Mythical Theory?
Societal Conditioning in the Scientific Worldview… A number of proposed causes of mental illness have been circling in the air for some time, and one of the most repellant to me is that brains with mental illness, when compared to normal brains, show a chemical imbalance deficiency of neurotransmitters like serotonin and norepinephrine.…
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