By not defining normal, psychotherapy can pathologize anything it feels like pathologizing and make much more money.
in reference to:"Our culture does a pretty terrible job educating us about normal human functioning."
- Jung’s Red Book and what is normal anyway? (news roundup) « Beyond Meds (view on Google Sidewiki)
I've learned to love weight training. I wish I had discovered years before I did. It's a wonderful hypnotic, repetitive behavior that requires deep contemplation. I've learned that it has very little to do with manipulating objects in physical space but everything to do with looking deep inside one's self and learning to merge the self with the physical body.
in reference to:"How about you? Have you ever found an activity that connected you with your body? How was your first experience with this? Was it therapeutic for you?"
- Finding My Body in Pilates « Voice in Recovery (view on Google Sidewiki)
Those angles would be helpfully be provided by establishment psychiatrists, who would also be happy to downplay and minimize the less than positive stories. It's absolutely impossible to get the full, unvarnished truth from any of these people.
in reference to:"It's probably true to say that 20th century psychiatry was not exactly a litany of success stories, although it would have been useful to hear some of the more positive angles as well."
- Mind Hacks: From madhouse to medication (view on Google Sidewiki)
At any rate, I guess the new line is, The markets can stay weirdly rational longer than you can stay conventionally solvent.
in reference to: The weirdly rational flash crash | Analysis & Opinion | (view on Google Sidewiki)There's absolutely nothing weird to download onto your computer's hard drive.
in reference to: Mahjongg Solitaire Games online (view on Google Sidewiki)From what I understand, the Federal Reserve purchased a lot of the really bad stuff on the banks' balance sheets and parked it in one of the Maiden Lane "credit facilities" on the taxpayers' dime. Recent reports indicate that the Fed is in no rush to sell this junk. There are no greater fools to be found anywhere.
in reference to:"So how in the world can these banks make all this money when they have stuff like this on their balance sheet?"
- Real Homes of Genius – 1 out of 7 homeowners not paying mortgage or in foreclosure. Examples in Pasadena. 672 square feet apartment for $385,000. 676 square feet home became equity machine. » Dr. Housing Bubble Blog (view on Google Sidewiki)
There are so many here I don't know where to begin.
Let's start with this ahistorical view:
...It went from a private, furtively practiced, vice to an open and accepted subculture. In many circles, ``sodomite'' ceased to be an insult. This acceptance led to the toleration, and wide practice, of gross homosexual promiscuity. HIV, falling onto that fertile soil, made the AIDS epidemic. Even before AIDS was recognized, practicing homosexuals were notorious for a high rate of venereal diseases....
No, sir, homosexual relations were practiced far more frequently in Western culture prior to the advent of the Pill. Prior to the Pill, prostitutes were expensive and nice girls simply didn't do it. It was quite common for men who identified themselves as heterosexual to seek out quick homosexual companionship. My gay friends who were of age when the Kinsey report came out in 1948 scoffed that only about 40% of the American male population had engaged in man-on-man relations.From their experiences and perspectives it was more like 60-70%. Like masturbation, these liaisons were something that was never discussed in polite company.
Let's make homophobia an equal opportunity employer:
...Homophobia is the moral judgement that homosexual behavior (most of the arguments in this essay refer specifically to male homosexual behavior) is wrong...
He really needs to make some arguments about the lesbian kind. Oh, wait, lesbians are the one cohort of the population that are least likely to have HIV. Never mind.
...it is a moral judgement upon acts engaged in by choice...
The mind-blowing thing is that this guy calls himself a scientist. Brain structures of homosexual men are unlike those of heterosexual men. We all know this. The last time I looked I couldn't chose my brain. I somehow wonder if he is also a closet Creationist on the side?
Of course, reports of mortgage delinquencies are going to drop when the banks refuse to report them because they don't want to show how bad their mortgage balance sheet actually is and how insolvent they really are.
in reference to:"The rate of 60+ day delinquencies among US mortgages fell 12 basis points (bps) to 6.77% in Q110, from 6.89% in the previous quarter, according to market research by credit bureau TransUnion."
- TransUnion Sees Delinquency Fall for First Quarter Since 2006 « HousingWire (view on Google Sidewiki)
Even if Kendra's Law is extended, it could merely be a moot point with massive budget shortfalls in all the states, including New York. Mental Health services and Medicaid are generally the first to be cut. Or at least, we can hope the psychiatric beast will be starved.
One question that I have, however, is about this new National Health Insurance Law. I have never read it, but there has been some mention of it providing for medical research. Is human experimentation by psychiatry provided for in this new law, I wonder?
