Category Archives: Psychiatry

‘No one has the faintest idea of how to prevent major mental illness.’ (12-12-24)

01:00 New York Post: OnlyFans model cries after sleeping with 101 men in a day: ‘Sometimes I feel so robotic’, https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/lifestyle/onlyfans-model-lily-phillips-cries-after-sleeping-with-101-men-in-a-day/08:00 Failing the Severely Mentally Ill, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9kTPLfK7ZM25:20 The wit of the child wards off the parent’s depression, https://x.com/lukeford/status/186731343674262757027:00 How do … Continue reading

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How do you prevent major mental illness?

“No one has the faintest idea of how to prevent major mental illness,” writes Rael Jean Isaac, coauthor of Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill (2000), in his plug for Insane Consequences: How … Continue reading

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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill (2017)

Grok summarizes this book by DJ Jaffe: Core Argument: Jaffe argues that the mental health industry has largely abandoned the most seriously mentally ill in favor of promoting “mental wellness” among a much larger, less symptomatic population. This shift, he … Continue reading

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Decoding The News (8-25-24)

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

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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