Ecopathologies: The Trauma of Climate
Although this post can be read alone, it might make sense to read it in sequence. The previous posts can be found here and here. I have at least two […]
Tag Archives: psychiatry
Critical psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff, author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure (2009) and The Bitterest Pill (2013), discusses what psychiatrists do and, more importantly, do not know about psychoactive […]
For An Affective Anarchism
Joseph Kay’s call for an affective politics is one I agree with and have made in other (non-anarchist) circles. For me part of the problem of leaving affect out of the picture […]
To Cultivate An Active Suicidality: possibility and suicide
Introduction In this essay I want to discuss suicide from within a Heideggerian perspective as a form of freedom. In doing so I will be making the distinction between suicide-as-event […]
Vulnerability, Meaning, and Death: on the aetiology of panic disorder
“He whose eyes happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy.” –Kierkegaard. This essay will briefly examine the genetic, evolutionary, cognitive (and behavioural), and psychodynamic approaches to the […]
Movements of Feeling and Moments of Judgment
Systems thinker Tom Andersen, in being “a wanderer and worrier” (as he put it), was constantly reflecting on his own practice, on his way of ‘going on’, to further develop […]
Psycho-Climate Communique #1
Beak Street, London, England: 11th June 2013 and two camps cut the capital in two. The heavy black figures,clad in stab-proof vests, weighed down by shining tools of their trade, […]
Their good life: Should the state legislate for individual happiness?
‘Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinion about events.’ – Epictetus Some governments are now providing free psychotherapy to their citizens. Jules Evans asks, ‘Is there a […]
Postpsychiatry: reaching beyond the technological paradigm in mental health
A great discussion ensued in the comment section. Healthcare in general is in danger of being subsumed by the machinations of technoscience and corporate pharma: the colonization of the life-health-world […]
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