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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

This was embarrassing because I was on a long, overseas trip during which I had talks and seminars to give. Two months after I began tapering, I harmed myself physically for the first time since early adolescence: I slashed my left arm with a serrated kitchen knife, over and over again. It happened again three months later.

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The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman

Mad in America

But I also went to Chicago because I was interested in learning more about the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur, and I saw that he was teaching a two-semester seminar in the Phenomenology of Time Consciousness. So, that’s what was going on in the Committee on Human Development. It was risky territory for me.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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97 Allen Frances, 683 and other prominent figures in the field, including Insel 684 and his predecessor Steven Hyman, 685 acknowledge that the disorders in the DSM manual have never been validated as discrete illnesses, and that the diagnostic categories are constructs. The seminar was very long, 14 pages, with 142 references.