emotions
In 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 MoreMy Story On Meds
The Psychiatric Sentence Yes, I’ve been laced on psychiatric medication for 22 years. After my failure of a trip to India in 1994, (where I suffered from acute dysentery and almost died, and subsequently had a near-death-experience on my plane trip home), I had a mental meltdown due to the trauma, and I landed in a…
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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