- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every mental state is also physical.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.
- Complex
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020