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Mark All
Sep 22nd, 2020
When some advanced civilizations in our galalxy realized sometime around 2050 AD Earth time that our planet had gone quiet the Galactic Counsel Empowered Flog, the planet closest to Earth, to visit and provide information as to what might have happened to a civiization ready to be iinvited to join the galactic communit...
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Sep 21st, 2020
Psychotherapist Al Glaves and I will talk about how the medical model of mental illnesses was created and how it is fed by the American Public's acceptance of its harmful and erroneous beliefs. We will speak about the factors that motivate the various "states of being" (in essence, troubled and troubling modes of behav...
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Sep 15th, 2020
In Part 3 of this series I will discuss the differences between a relationship with a Psychotherapist or other mental health professional that will help rather than hurt those seeking help for emotional pain, difficult relationships or problems realizing a life that is creative and emotionally fulfilling. I will descri...
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Sep 11th, 2020
A second episode dealing with the myths of mental illness and health and the various ways in which your life can be ruined. I will continue my discussion of the basic information the public requires to interact with the professionals that comprise those supposedly "diagnosing" and "treating" problems in living.
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Sep 9th, 2020
A person writes on Twitter "I had so many dreams. Had so many things I wanted to do. I was told I needed to wait for the right cocktail of meds ...so I could be balanced. Days turned into months and years. 20 years gone. Never got to start my life." In todays episode I shall describe how being drawn into the lies of th...
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Aug 26th, 2020
Today I will discuss some of my reactions to Wilkerson's argument that race based on skin color formed the basis of a caste here in America. I will discuss the incredible, mind altering statement that "there are no black peope in Africa.'' I will discuss this from my own vantage point that had my grandparents not left...
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Aug 24th, 2020
Today I will discuss the nature of the self and try to convince my listeners that beginning a sentence that expresses a psychological fact should not be "I am" but "I do" thereby changing the nature of our selves from nouns to verbs. This small grammatical shift allows us to recognize the enormous difference between j...
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Aug 10th, 2020
I will deconstruct the concepts of race and intelligence and describe how these basically unscientific and invalid concepts have been used to divide and dehumanize human beings and justify the enslavement and murder of millions as well as convince more millions into believing that race, rather than their humanity, is ...
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Jul 27th, 2020
Are human beings the products of their genes, how they are treated by other human beings in their environments or by a combination of both? Are some human beings basically good and some basically evil? Do we have any control as to how human beings turn out and if so how can we describe that control? I do not pretend t...
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Jul 20th, 2020
A critical discussion about Mary Trump's psychological insights about how her family's dynamics shaped the personalities of its members. Dr. Trump is a clincal psychologist and provides a well written, easy to read, and in my opinion an important volume on her theories concerning the rise of Donald Trump and the fall ...
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Jun 22nd, 2020
I will present an arguement that America's current attempts to deal with "racism" and police brutality are best understood as common elements of authoritarian political structures. Authoritarianism is the dominant type of politics both in our world and the historical past. Authoritarian political structures are always...
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Jun 12th, 2020
My Co-host is Sue Parry, retired Occupational Therapist and Mother of three grown sons who were all diagnosed "at-risk" for ADHD, Conduct Disorder and various learning disabilities when they were of school age. Her personal experiences with the mental health system left her outraged at how health care and educational ...
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Jun 8th, 2020
I am a familiar with a young person about to start graduate studies in School Psychology which means that this individual will be emersed in much of the same theories and ideas as Clinical Psychology. I hope this individual (and all others entering the field) enjoys being a psychologist as much as I did but should be...
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Jun 6th, 2020
A further discussion on how confusing moral labels with medical diagnoses damages both individuals and the democracy we strive to live in. Morally judging unhappiness, confusion, a host of normal human emotions and a wide number of problems people might have adjusting to a variety of life situations dehumanizes and de...
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Jun 2nd, 2020
This will be the first in a series of podcasts that have two goals. The first is to try and convince the public to reject any and all attempts by professionals working in the mental health industry (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and others) to accept that confusion, anxiety and unhappiness represent actu...
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May 27th, 2020
There is no real thing called intelligence that can actually be measured although people do differ in the skills that they excercise in varying situations. After years of struggling to define just what intellience might be many psychologists gave up and decided that "intelligence is whatever the test tests!" However, ...
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May 26th, 2020
I will continue to develop ideas preresented yesterday but left unfinished when Bob Eben called in a told his life affirming story. I will discuss, love, joy, creativity as well as education, the arts and good citizenship.
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May 25th, 2020
It is often assumed that health, whether mental or physical, means the absence of illness. While I will not try and describe physical or medical health I will try and discuss the thorny topic of mental health. I have argued that mental illnesses are moral judgments of unwanted behaviors and have little or nothing to do...
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May 18th, 2020
I will begin my discussion of schizophrenia with a statement from my book "Psycho'therapy' and the Stories We Live By: "One of the saddest expressions of a ruined identity are the words 'I am a schizophrenic.' To have one's total identity conflated with a fictitious disease that a person believes is incurable is tantam...
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Apr 27th, 2020
Mental Illnesses are moral judgements about a variety of often unwanted, troubled and troubling behaviors that on the surface seem to be illogical and make little or no sense that pose as medical diganoses. In my own writings and podcasts I put quotation marks around "therapy," "patient," "symptoms," and all other wor...
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Apr 25th, 2020
My fear is that people will be convinced that their emotional reactions to the pandemic will represent some form of "mental illness" and that they will turn to Big Pharma to help them get through. Let's discuss what we are experiencing as we live in these extraordinary times. I am no longer a licensed psychotherapist...
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Apr 17th, 2020
Andrew Solomon, in his article "Don't Ignore Clinical Mental Illness" points out that people who have existing, long term mental illnesses are especially at risk at having their symptoms severely increased by the pandemic and therefore in need of more therapy and medication. I will discuss the type of stories and patte...
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Apr 15th, 2020
Today's discussion is based on an Op-Ed article in the New York Times entitled "Don't Ignore Clinical Mental Illness" by Andrew Solomon, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center. The author writes "Within weeks (of the pandemic) the familar symptoms of mental illness have become universal ...
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Apr 13th, 2020
Scott is a graduate of the University of Michigan, a musician and living in Spain as an educator. We will discuss our mutual interest in Szasz's ideas and how we both became convinced that the ideology of psychiatry is based on an unscientific, illogical and toxic set of ideas in which a moral judgment poses as a medi...
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Apr 2nd, 2020
A discussion based on my book Psycho"therapy" and the Stories We Live By which is my attempt to seperate my idea of what the field might look like once the corrupt, illogical and toxic notions of "mental illnesses and disorders," and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disoders (DSM). I will discuss the nee...
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