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I’m curious to hear what people think/feel regarding the term psychological problem.

Why therapists should have their own therapy first.

Ive just been reading a schema therapy text, which is great, but continues this outdated contrast with psychodynamic therapies, “…these therapies focus on drive theory and instinctual urges”. These are obviously intelligent authors. Help me understand.

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We need more accounts/understandings/models of flourishing that are multidimensional. We are more than “rational”, but it’s an important part. Psychodynamic/PsyA perspectives elaborate on this and it’s great!

I appreciate this perspective. I actually didn’t think about the diversity averse sense that the word can perpetuate. Consciousness is a great umbrella term that captures much. I’m fond of affect. It denotes something broad which supports subjective exp and enable obj measurement.

I’m slowly becoming to detest the word Cognition. Conceptually, we need something to capture the processes but the word has become brutalised and needs to be put to rest.

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Perhaps a hypothesis is what bridges them? Nice quote🙏

Coo - one more for complex circuits! Any midbrain activation?

The new object of the old feelings and expectations, the person toward whom they are now directed, must be willing, even determined, to discuss the client’s feelings and impulses with interest, objectivity, and without defensiveness.
- Michael Kahn

“There is a need to strike a kind of balance between danger and safety…a balance between being seen by the patient as an old or a new object. If the analyst cannot be experienced as a new object, analysis never gets under way; if he cannot be experienced as an old one, it never ends.”
- J. Greenberg

I agree that those are arguments that still require fleshing out. I think my original point, that you needn’t be a strict physicalist about these things to hold Pankseppian account of emotional generators, is still possible. I will have a look at Barrett’s model, thank you for sharing!

but cant do so, yet. I also appreciate that that’s the gulf Panksepp’s work is trying to overcome. Perhaps I’m doing the topic an injustice here. Diane O’Leary has written some compelling papers on the topic, especially as it pertains to practice of medicine.

I wouldn’t say a flaw, per se. Simply that some dualist theories allow for materialist starting point (e.g., property dualism or naturalistic dualism). Non-reductive physicalists still have to contend with fact that they want to account for certain qualities at biological/physiological level

I like to sneak this out at the hospital on occasion. The confused glares from fellow psychologists is both comedic and illuminating. Oddly, no one ever wants to discuss over a friendly beer!

Carving out my personal philosophy on meta-psychological matters and have resonated with writings on situational realism, and its broader conceptualisation, critical realism.

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I’m curious of any neuropsychological theorists/practitioners who are interestedin non-computational (i.e., non-information processing) accounts of neuropsychological functioning.

Forces in the mental health field drive us to do our work more quickly so we can be ‘cost-effective.’ Arriving at formulations prematurely is reinforced by these currents in the culture as well as by our natural urge to feel a sense of mastery over the chaos of the human condition.
- Glen Gabbard

Rejection of Hijab as a Psychiatric Problem in Iran An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare

Rejection of Hijab as a Psychiatric Problem in Iran

An illustration of political weaponization of healthcare

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Teaching a clinical psych bachelor intro course. Most of my students learned that schizophrenia is 'due to a dopamin problem', depression is 'because of serotonin', and that the gut microbiome 'causes' anxiety disorders.

I'm so disheartened about the state of psych textbooks.

The privilege of seeing both Nancy McWilliams and Michael Garrett speak this week.

A question for the affective neuroscience/general affect research crowd. How would you conceptualise (neuro and behavioural level) alexithymia in affective neuroscience terms?

I wish playing dead were an option when responding to reviewers.

describe the quality of feelings, motivations, thoughts, and memories in purely neural terms. They happen because of the brain, but emerge out of a confluence of interweaving systems and circuits. What neuroscience needs now is a new metaphor.

ever be able to fully account for mental life through mapping of brain states. We have brain states which account for core aspects of our physiology, sensory processing, perception, emotion, cognition, and behaviour. However, at this point in my life, I don’t believe that we will ever be able, to

I’ve been reflecting on this point. Perhaps the strong physicalist does not want to cede ground to any type of dualism as it leaves an entire property/aspect of conscious life up for grabs? Property dualism is attractive for me because I don’t believe neuroscience, or related clinical fields, will

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“…affective neuroscience is thoroughly monistic, with no remaining dualistic perspectives.”

I’m curious if this hard stance. One needn’t subscribe to a strong physicalism to be open to there only being physical stuff but with properties that may not be wholly reducible to that stuff. No?