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 »
Category Archives: Insight
maeror meror (in mourning)
[Edit: to complete the e-trail, see also David Dobbs commentary at Wired, and Maia Szalavitz' (very over-simplified) article at Time. Both "re-mix" and quote parts of this post.] I suspect it would strike most people as ‘mad,’ particularly perhaps, to those who know me, to identify any sort of kinship, any common bond, with James … Continue reading »
The Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS): A sarcastic and not especially serious commentary
If I weren’t such an assiduous—and perhaps even obsessive—reader of Schizophrenia Bulletin, I probably never would have come across this (relatively) new scale (designed in the cognitivist tradition by Beck and company). But there it was…sitting in my inbox. Now, before I drop all attempts at serious critique, let me say that I don’t necessarily … Continue reading »
