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    Psychiatry and the Business of Madness

    As others have pointed out, restraining, forcibly drugging, or locking someone up because a police officer or judge deems them a potential risk to themselves or others would not be acceptable. So why do we allow it and even condone it just because some psychiatrist has an opinion? Especially...
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    Psychiatry and the Business of Madness

    Thanks for your comment. >This is a supply and demand issue. If there were no need for psychiatry, then psychiatrists wouldn't exist. Can you explain this further? It doesn't seem that simple to me. Yes, people have psychological problems, so yes, there is a need for psychological help. But...
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    Psychiatry and the Business of Madness

    On Friday the University of Toronto hosted the book launch of "Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting" by psychiatry abolitionist, researcher, and author Dr. Bonnie Burstow. Based on years of thorough and rigorous mixed methods research, the book lands...
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    Working model: "Inside-Outside" dual-aspect monism

    FYI Mods: Please ignore my previous flagging of this thread for deletion.
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    Working model: "Inside-Outside" dual-aspect monism

    I've been working on a visual depiction of what dual-aspect monism "looks like" in my mind. What do you think? Does it make sense? Does it require clarification? Any and all comments are welcome!
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    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    Not sure if the rest of your comment is in response to anything I wrote here. Seems like a response to this comment in the Jeff Kitsch thread. If so, perhaps repost your comment there for thread continuity?
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    Mod+ 248. BERNARDO KASTRUP SAYS MATERIALISM IS BALONEY

    My thoughts exactly. It surprises me that Bernardo so emphatically embraces such an arbitrary conclusion.
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    Mod+ 250. DR. JEFFREY SCHWARTZ, SCIENCE’S INABILITY TO EXPLAIN PERSONHOOD

    Good point about it being "too soon" for idealism. In fact, there has been a ton of backtracking since idealism and panpsychism were the dominant views near the onset of the Enlightenment. I disagree that dualism is useful; it's still a hidden and therefore problematic assumption for many...
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    Mod+ 250. DR. JEFFREY SCHWARTZ, SCIENCE’S INABILITY TO EXPLAIN PERSONHOOD

    No edge in terms of scientific explanations, no. But here are some common observations I find intriguing: 1. Reality is only known to us through conscious experience. Matter is an abstraction, experience is not. This is an epistemological problem for materialism, but is predicted by idealism. 2...
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    Mod+ 250. DR. JEFFREY SCHWARTZ, SCIENCE’S INABILITY TO EXPLAIN PERSONHOOD

    The importance of this insight cannot be overlooked, yet it fails to register with most materialists, many of whom I've debated are very intelligent, well-informed thinkers. Those who do acknowledge this epistemological gap exhibit a degree of faith in the belief that conscious experience is...
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