Category Archives: Psychiatry

Decoding The News (8-25-24)

Posted on August 25, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Hate Comments About Gus Walz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15713114:00 Tucker Carlson – The FULL Interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1tjQ-RaZU15:30 What’s going on with Ken Brown aka Deep Left Jokl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aALp15nKpUI26:00 Kamala Harris, LBJ & The Passage Of Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15714334:30 How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy: … Continue reading →

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Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2013 book by sociologist Liah Greenfeld: * finding oneself bombarded by contradictory cultural messages and overwhelmed with choices is an exceedingly and increasingly common modern experience. It is, therefore, not surprising that the period … Continue reading →

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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of medicine: * During the last half of the century, Charles Darwin’s new evolutionary theory exerted a towering influence over the scientific zeitgeist, including psychiatry.6 Darwin … Continue reading →

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Is depression just a chemical imbalance?

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Luke Ford
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Luke Ford
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