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THE PSYCHSURVIVALIST

THE PSYCHSURVIVALIST

por Julian Lev

Salud mental Ciencias Sociales

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ANGER Pt 3: Mental Hospitals

This episode explores the intersection of anger, fear, incompetence, and institutional culture within state psychiatric hospitals. Drawing on experiences in both Washington and New Mexico, the author reflects on how professional training often failed to prepare the author or other professionals on how to best effect treatment with little regard or even belief on how or whether inpatient treatment can anticipate successful outcomes at all.

ANGER-Pt 2: An Emotion, A Symptom, A Diagnosis, or A Way of Living

What is ANGER in reality? In this episode I discuss what anger is and what it isn't. By my account, it is a symptom of mental illness that is not sufficiently worthy of a diagnosis in the Diagnostic Manual because its expression is so diffuse as to be unanalyzable in terms that will explain the behavior as it appears in a large number of people. Copilot, however, offered a clue as to the commonality of anger across all areas where it is often expressed. As I apply the concept, the best example is the current President of the United States. He presents as someone who has maximum agency, more than anyone else in the world, but behaves in a way that would lead one to think that he has no agency at all. This episode also includes a discussion of how POTUS's sense of agency departs from that of his followers and that, despite any disagreement with him, they persist in their adoration.

AI vs. Lizard Brain

My response to #SamAltman, #RayKurzwell, #JensenHuang et al. How they are feeding the machine through their passive enabling of politicians' wars that we as individuals and as a society have no business supporting. How #AI and #AGI are rendering our concepts of #intelligence meaningless and how all the efforts of the entitled, well-financed, and empowered will eventually encounter the same end as the rest of us rendering all their efforts meaningless. Or as the #Who said, "Meet the new boss, like the old boss," even though it is only a machine, having no instincts or feelings. Now, meet our guide however unconsciously, the #LizardBrain, our most intimate #LimbicSystem that through feeling and instinct allows us to adapt to the broader environment flying in the face of all that the our minds tells us.

The Lizard In Therapy

In which I discuss how to recognize the #limbicsystem in #psychotherapy and in life. While we are talking to a client about the things that concern them, there is a more basic, perhaps primitive mode of thinking that is ever present influencing that person's thoughts and actions just as much as and perhaps more than what they are presenting. We can either pay attention to it or adhere to what is being presented. This is a reminder to #therapists and their #clients that a question is a question and is not necessarily a hint and that there may be any number of ways to understand the story of our lives. Alternative views are not a threat, but an invitation. The #lizardbrain may become frightened in response to questions that elicit #personalobservations. In a nonthreatening place a properly asked question may provide an opening to #selfexploration and to the #psyche.

The Snake In The Grass: "Luke, I Am Your Personality"

#TheSnake is the origin of #Personality. We thought we knew what a #PersonalityDisorder is only to learn that we have never defined what personality is. We can discuss, even define symptoms related to personality disorders, but we can't say what it is in #HumanExperience that makes us the way we are, why one turns out to be a #Psychopath and another a #BorderlinePersonality. Each of us equally, even the most normal, feel ourselves to be unique. Perhaps at a very early age, we find ourselves at a crossroads leading to a diversity of experiences that separate us from others, leading us to a sense of our #Individuality that we feel is our primary interest to protect, This is about cortical learning, but with the recognition that our deepest learning would occur much earlier in the #Limbicsystem. #StarWars is who we are. It is the human experience.

The Snake's Lecture

This is episode 13 with the artwork included. Sorry for any inconvenience due to my error. How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is used to interpret how life events affect us as we go from passive observer, however scientific, to active interpreters of our own experience and vicariously through others. How this might be what was intended by the psychiatrist #ViktorFrankl in his theory of #Logotherapy In which I ask the question, What might the limbic system be doing when it is not reacting to influences that are intended to cause us #fear, #pleasure or pander to our basest needs? What might the limbic system be doing when we are not actively using it?All AI is credited when it appears in the discussion. The conclusions are all my own. AI is only used for clarity and to develop content.

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The Snake's Lecture- version 2

How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is used to interpret how life events affect us as we go from passive observer, however scientific, to active interpreters of our own experience and vicariously through others. How this might be what was intended by the psychiatrist #ViktorFrankl in his theory of #Logotherapy In which I ask the question, What might the limbic system be doing when it is not reacting to influences that are intended to cause us #fear, #pleasure or pander to our basest needs? What might the limbic system be doing when we are not actively using it?All AI is credited when it appears in the discussion. The conclusions are all my own. AI is only used for clarity and to develop content.

Meet Your Lizard Brain: Psychology In Action

In which I present the notion that the #unconscious mind doesn't only express itself in our #dreams or when we are not fully aware or in control of what we are doing, but that it is an ongoing participant of our daily life and in our thinking. I argue that it is the basis for what we regard as #internalconflicts because it may not be in agreement with who we perceive ourselves to be and may take an oppositional stand as we refuse to accept certain aspects of ourselves that are discordant with who we believe we are and who we would like to be. I express this idea more fully and dramatically in my novel, Spiders Kill Their Young, available on Amazon that received an excellent Kirkus review, I once again discuss #storytelling as the best medium to understand human problems in context and further examine why this is so.

Diagnosing With Your Gut

Applying #instinct to #psychodiagnostics. Incorporating feelings in the process of diagnosis. Going beyond #ActiveListening Theory to a more indepth form of listening.

What's For Dessert? Psychodiagnostics, anyone?

#Psychsurvivalist What is a #psychiatricdiagnosis anyway? Is it the name of a disease? Is it mental? Biological? Is it a negative character assessment? Or is it simply name calling, a way to ostracize a person with whom we find fault for any reason or for no reason at all because we just don't like them? This episode explores several reasons for attaching a #clinicallabel, although there may be others I haven't thought of yet. This is the beginning of an answer to the very common question, #Am-I-crazy? Going to the cover art, do you ask the educated doctor or do you ask the monolith that symbolizes the repository of experience? Maybe we are looking in the wrong place for our answer.

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