Comments on: An American Horror Story. http://roadsassy.com/2008/04/an-american-horror-story/ The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: zee http://roadsassy.com/2008/04/an-american-horror-story/#comment-717 zee Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:13:09 +0000 http://roadsassy.com/index.php/2008/04/13/an-american-horror-story/#comment-717 That is indeed an interesting article. I have no great love of <i>any </i>practitioners in the field. Suffice to say, the damage they can inflict is crippling and costly. To assent to the therapy offered, is to, in essence, acquiesce to their version of reality and to allow that to become the lens through which you have agreed to interpret the world. You can be trapped in such a false construct for years if nothing shattering occurs to force one to jump out of the story. Fortunately, I quit seeing those witch doctors just around the time they started getting Prozac crazy. Back in the day, they were quite content to simply to vitiate my soul, they hadn't yet advanced to rearranging my neural network. But, what your article describes... <blockquote>The new neuroscience has emerged from the last two decades of formidable progress in brain science, psychopharmacology, and brain imaging, bringing together research related to the human nervous system in fields as diverse as genetics and computer science. It has flowered into one of the hottest fields in academia, where almost anything “neuro” now generates excitement, along with neologisms—neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuromarketing. [...] A layperson leafing through a mainstream psychiatric journal today might easily conclude that biologists had taken over the profession.... The field has so thoroughly cast its lot with biology, and with the biology induced by psychoactive drugs, that psychiatrists can hardly hope to publish in one of the mainstream journals if their article tells the story of an individual patient, or includes any personal thoughts or feelings about the people or the work that patient was engaged with, or fails to include a large dose of statistical data. Psychiatry used to be all theories, urges, and ids. Now it’s all genes, receptors, and ­neurotransmitters.</blockquote> ....would I be correct in seeing this a Marxian view of the human being. It is totally materialistic and, according to their preferred wisdom, it posits that human as imminently "fixable". The engineered man; fancy high tech zombies stripped of volition, populating a world where <a href="http://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html" rel="nofollow">Huxley's soma</a> would fit right in. Good post, thank you. That is indeed an interesting article. I have no great love of any practitioners in the field. Suffice to say, the damage they can inflict is crippling and costly.
To assent to the therapy offered, is to, in essence, acquiesce to their version of reality and to allow that to become the lens through which you have agreed to interpret the world. You can be trapped in such a false construct for years if nothing shattering occurs to force one to jump out of the story.
Fortunately, I quit seeing those witch doctors just around the time they started getting Prozac crazy. Back in the day, they were quite content to simply to vitiate my soul, they hadn’t yet advanced to rearranging my neural network.

But, what your article describes…

The new neuroscience has emerged from the last two decades of formidable progress in brain science, psychopharmacology, and brain imaging, bringing together research related to the human nervous system in fields as diverse as genetics and computer science. It has flowered into one of the hottest fields in academia, where almost anything “neuro” now generates excitement, along with neologisms—neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuromarketing.
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A layperson leafing through a mainstream psychiatric journal today might easily conclude that biologists had taken over the profession…. The field has so thoroughly cast its lot with biology, and with the biology induced by psychoactive drugs, that psychiatrists can hardly hope to publish in one of the mainstream journals if their article tells the story of an individual patient, or includes any personal thoughts or feelings about the people or the work that patient was engaged with, or fails to include a large dose of statistical data. Psychiatry used to be all theories, urges, and ids. Now it’s all genes, receptors, and ­neurotransmitters.

….would I be correct in seeing this a Marxian view of the human being. It is totally materialistic and, according to their preferred wisdom, it posits that human as imminently “fixable”. The engineered man; fancy high tech zombies stripped of volition, populating a world where Huxley’s soma would fit right in.

Good post, thank you.

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