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About, Around, and Against the Work of John Bowlby
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 12, 2012 

Truer Words—Pathologizing and Medicalizing Life

Today’s Truer Words come from an article by Martha Rosenberg entitled Psychiatrists Seek New Patients at Annual Meeting. Rosen writes about the recent meeting of the APA—American Psychiatric Association. Here’s an excerpt from Rosenberg’s article early on: This is the year the APA puts the finishing touches on DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 5, 2012 

Truer Words—Not Saving But Selling Face (Update)

In my May 30th, 2012, Truer Words blog post, I talked about how Facebook is selling us to ourselves. Well, in the “I could not make this up” category, consider the following article entitled On Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads. The article appears to be by Somini Sengupta and originally came out of San Francisco. I […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 30, 2012 

Truer Words—Not Saving But Selling Face

In an earlier post, I suggested that there is much data to be found on the Internet, but not much wisdom. I still feel this to be true. But, occasionally, you can find pearls of wisdom on the Internet. Ergo, I have decided to create a new blog post category entitled Truer Words as in […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 23, 2012 

Repent for the Cosmic Castration Is Upon Us (part IV)

Welcome to the last part of this four-part series wherein I describe what I am calling the Cosmic Castration—systematically castrating body from mind. As a backdrop I have been summarizing the last chapter in neurologist Antonio Damasio’s 2010 book Self Comes to Mind. Damasio’s last chapter is entitled Living With Consciousness. In part IV, I’ll […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 14, 2012 

Repent for the Cosmic Castration Is Upon Us (part III)

Lets engage in a bit of a thought experiment. Over the weekend you complete a workshop on dream interpretation. The presenter suggests that you buy a dream journal and put it by your bed. The presenter also makes note of the fact that it is imperative that you write your dream down in your journal […]

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