Showing posts with label Mental Disorder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mental Disorder. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

On Medium: Friendship is Social Engineering for the Self-Help Crowd

Read on for a critique of the self-help industry and specifically Dale Carnegie’s foundational advice on how to increase profits by being friendly at work.

Thursday, December 4, 2025

On Medium: Tourette Syndrome and the Acquaintance with Absurdity

Read on about the extent to which your personal background might be relevant to the philosophical evaluation of your worldview.


Thursday, November 6, 2025

On Medium: Self-Help Know-it-Alls and the Cult of Happiness

Read on about how individualism is the source of many of our mental health problems, and why the self-help industry should be humiliating to psychiatrists and professional therapists.

Monday, November 3, 2025

On Medium: Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science

Read on for a dialogue on the basis of psychiatric evaluations of mental disorders, and the clash between psychiatrists' scientific status and their deference to social conventions.

Thursday, October 30, 2025

On Medium: The Clash Between Conservative Psychiatrists and Liberal Philosophers

Read on to sort through the psychiatrist's conservative propaganda and the philosopher's liberal critique of society's conception of mental health.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

On Medium: Are We Ever Awake and Not Daydreaming?

Here's an article about the cultural dreams of billions of sleepwalkers, and what it means psychologically and socially for life to be dreamlike.

On Medium: Psychiatrists Don’t Dictate Who’s Mentally Healthy

Read on about social conformity, the psychiatric struggle to define “mental disorder,” and the philosophical judgment of social norms.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

On Medium: The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism

Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike impersonal animals, inevitably experience alienation.

Friday, May 9, 2025

On Medium: Is Trumpism Ideological or Psychotic?

Here's an article about a superficial clash between explanations of Trump’s second presidential term, and whether his regime is guided by mental disorder or right-wing ideology.

Monday, April 21, 2025

On Medium: Should the Masses be Taught Philosophy?

Read on for a dialogue on the need for reason’s integration with intuition, and whether philosophers should be elitists or popularizers in dealing with the public.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

On Medium: A Silver Lining of Trumpian Madness

Read on about how the travesty of Trump’s hyperreality can inadvertently humble and enlighten us, by illustrating how all knowledge filters the facts.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

On Medium: Nature’s Otherness and the Consolation of Madness

Read on about the futile bridges of philosophy, science, mysticism, and horror fiction: by always simplifying to understand things, the facts always include a terrifying unknown or ignored side.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

On Medium: When Philosophers and Scientists Squabble about the Meaning Crisis

Read on about how John Vervaeke minimizes the philosophical reasons for alienation, in taking the meaning crisis to be a problem mainly for psychologists and therapists.

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

On Medium: The Peril of Taking Comfort in Alien Norms

Read on about how routines reassure us, even as this paradigm is set by the paranoid fear of nature's wild reality that surpasses our self-serving inductive generalizations.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

On Medium: The Claptrap of “Trump Derangement Syndrome”

Here's an article that exposes the laziness of Republicans’ Orwellian gaslighting about their critics' supposed mental disorder of noticing the egregiousness of American conservatism.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

On Medium: Psychopathy is the Linchpin of Civilizations

Here's an article about the history of how urban environments have sorted us like wild animals because psychopaths were needed initially to promote and to secure states.