Isomorphism insight + Audio
In this two minute snippet I think I managed to get enough of the idea down, so I can elaborate.
Isomorphism – an insight -wl -mp3
I had a moment of seeing clearly how different phenomena can all be related under one heading:
Isomorphism in human relations.
I am writing this after making the audio, expanding on it:
The Return of the Repressed
Not sure if I’ve linked to this essay before? I like his style. Interesting topic! What a culture psychotherapy creates around itself. This particular paragraph is interesting on countertransference.
http://bostonreview.net/BR27.6/boynton.html
Since Freud, there have been three main attitudes towards countertransference, explains Robert Young, a Texas-born, London-based analyst who was formerly the publisher of Free Association Books and a Cambridge don. He sums up the history of countertransference for me, citing several papers he has written on the subject. “An analyst can get rid of his countertransference through analysis and concentrate on the patient’s transference. He can try to exploit it in a controlled way, as Freud says when he advocates using the therapist’s unconscious as an instrument for fathoming the patient’s unconscious. Or he can, more or less, just ‘go with it,’ and treat this unconscious-to-unconscious communication as the only authentical communication between analyst and patient,” he tells me.
Psy War
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427381.300-psychiatrys-civil-war.html
This war is interesting as in New Zealand ACC is trying to make a DSM diagnosis madatory for treatment.
Two eminent retired psychiatrists are warning that the revision process is fatally flawed. They say the new manual, to be known as DSM-V, will extend definitions of mental illnesses so broadly that tens of millions of people will be given unnecessary and risky drugs. Leaders of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), which publishes the manual, have shot back, accusing the pair of being motivated by their own financial interests – a charge they deny. The row is set to come to a head next month when the proposed changes will be published online. For a profession that exists to soothe human troubles, it’s incendiary stuff.
Psychiatry suffers in comparison with other areas of medicine, as diseases of the mind are on the whole less well understood than those of the body. We have, as yet, only glimpses into the fundamental causes of the common mental illnesses, and there are no biological tests to diagnose them. This means conditions such as depression, schizophrenia and personality disorders remain difficult to diagnose with precision. Doctors can only question people about their state of mind and observe their behaviour, classifying illness according to the most obvious symptoms.
Buy a print!
Prints of all my sketches, in this blog, in the Thousand Sketches and in the Gallery are for sale.
Dare I say it, there is just enough time left for Christmas if you buy now. In New Zealand you have a little longer.
Thousand Sketches – Colour
This is a sketch in the Thousand Sketches project. I was thunbing through them and noticed this one. I had no memory of it. Bland? I looked at it for ages. I like it!
#0622 Colour
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Nuclear Energy?
Nuclear isn’t necessary : article : Nature Reports Climate Change:
The notion that we need nuclear power to address climate change does not reflect the realities of the marketplace or rapid new developments in energy technology.
Ruskoff mp3 – Korzybski Memorial Lecture
http://www.generalsemantics.org/misc/akml/akmls/rushkoff.mp3
I liked his talk. (Right click the link to download button) He goes into the state of the world with some enthusiasm & intelligence. He misses the Marxism that applies so thoroughly to what he is discussing, which is a pity, but he also amplifies it, sees the same stuff from another fresh angle.
Weekly Digest of Tweets 2009-12-13
5 Tweets and my 7 min audio commentary
Tweets follow.
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Climate change – Malcolm Turnbull MP (Aust)
Is the proposed ETS in Australia any better than the NZ one, which the NZ Greens say is a scam to make the rich richer & won’t do anything for climate?
Are the NZ Greens right?
Malcolm Turnbull makes sense, (who thought I’d be quoting an Aussie Liberal!)
First, let’s get this straight. You cannot cut emissions without a cost. To replace dirty coal fired power stations with cleaner gas fired ones, or renewables like wind let alone nuclear power or even coal fired power with carbon capture and storage is all going to cost money.