Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
My first column was about David Foster Wallace, whose ‘This is Water’ commencement address at Kenyon College (2005) had become a touchstone ( see transcript here , and audio recording here ). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 7, 2024
The altered states of consciousness in these cases are precisely altered by psychopharmacological drugs in the activity of neurotransmitters such as dopamine. I developed these exercises on body perception as a training director for a group of actors and actresses between 2001 and 2005.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.
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