[This post is--again--inspired by a breathtaking mixed media project of Timothy Kelly's that he will hopefully one day post; and in honor of mother's day. Best viewed on a full screen.] …………….. Every time I tried to talk to my grandfather about my mother before he died, the story was the same: “it was the … Continue reading »
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On problems inside ‘the’ movement
Over the last few days (beginning with a conversation with Timothy Kelly, whose blog Mental Health Musings everyone who wants to understand the complexities of the US c/s/x movement should be reading), I’ve been thinking even more than usual about the politics of mental health organizing in this country. The realization I’m coming to is … Continue reading »
Psychosis & Luhrmann’s ‘Epistemological Double Register’ (Part I)
I’ve been meaning to return to Tanya Luhrmann’s essay “A Hyperreal God and Modern Belief” for some time; I finally now have a chance to get back to it. What initially intrigued me most about this text was the fact that it was not written about, or with any direct reference to, psychosis; the overlap, … Continue reading »
Phenomenological Method (with gravitas)
I’m slowly—admittedly with some trepidation!—beginning to prepare for an INPP talk I’ll be giving at Durham University in July. The task I’ve set myself is to critically unpack the implications of the slippage (this, I feel, is the generous way of putting it) between first and third-person perspective in contemporary phenomenological psychopathology. With this goal … Continue reading »
Post-ICOSR II: Limitatations of the current phenomenology of psychosis
At ICOSR I was delighted by multiple opportunities to converse with active neuroscientists; a general lack of attention to the nuances and complications of phenomenology nevertheless troubled me. The overall impression I walked away with was that certain nosological categories (AVHs for example) have become so thoroughly and invisibly ‘naturalized’ that the vast majority of … Continue reading »
Post ICOSR: Brief Reflections on ‘First Person” Positioning
I still need to return to my planned posts on anthropological theory of mind and double-bookkeeping, but have been distracted over the past few weeks by an intensive hearing voices training I organized in Chicago followed by the week-long International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR) in Orlando. ICOSR was, in fact, tremendous fun overall (time … Continue reading »
Luhrmann: Between Religion and Madness (Part I)
Several thousand feet above the air, I’ve just finished reading two of Tanya Luhrmann’s recent texts: “A Hyperreal God and Modern Belief” and “Hallucinations and Sensory Overrides.” These are scintillating texts and, although Luhrmann presumably did not intend them to perform this particular interdisciplinary function, robust and energizing challenges to contemporary approaches to ‘psychopathology’ within … Continue reading »
