Comments on: The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/ Science, Psychiatry & Social Justice Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-269805 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:18:56 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-269805 In reply to Michael Robin.

Dear Michael Robin,

I think the way you react to my comments shows you have a lot to learn about psychiatry.

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]]> By: Michael Robin https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-269767 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:18:18 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-269767 In reply to Birdsong.

Dear Birdsong, I think your portrayal of University professors like Mark Freeman, who is an outstanding author and writer, is insulting to someone like Freeman who has written a number of very important books. I highly recommend his book on Hindsight, which is a very insightful essay on cognitive processes. Making cynical generalizations about MIA contributors is not very helpful or respectful. Nor is making comments about a scholar’s life’s work without referring to anything he specifically wrote in his MIA essay/interview. I think Mark Freeman deserves a much better reception from the MIA community. Having actually read most of his books, I can faithfully say that he has contributed as much as anyone to the rethinking of psychiatry.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-269687 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:48:31 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-269687 In reply to Birdsong.

Clarification: “JNANI: The Silent Sage of Arunachala – Ramana Maharshi”

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-269671 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:25:30 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-269671 In reply to Birdsong.

CORRECTION: Universities teach a lot of things, but NOT what is truly important, WHICH MAKES THEM A WASTE OF MONEY.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-269596 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:58:45 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-269596 Universities teach lots of things, except what is truly important.

On YouTube: “6 Ways To Be In Flow With Your Life – Lao Tsu(Taoism)”, courtesy Philosophies for Life

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]]> By: Brianne Fitzgerald https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-269520 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:29:09 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-269520 Thank you Richard Freeman for your interest in “the other”.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-269053 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:03:55 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-269053 “If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience . . . situation(s) as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that’s capital-T true is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it.”

– David Foster Wallace, from “The Art of Letting Things Happen | A Japanese Philosophy That Will Change How You Think”, on YouTube courtesy Pursuit of Wonder

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-268966 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:18:31 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-268966 Asking the unanswerable is a waste of life.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-268947 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:20:34 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-268947 In reply to Birdsong.

…”Philosophy Is Not The Answer”, courtesy SEEKER TO SEEKER

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-268888 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:41:13 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-268888 On YouTube: “Sri Ramana Maharshi — JNANI” courtesy Cinefx Productions

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-268858 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:40:03 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-268858 Psychology is a soulless field the value of which is dubious at best, whereas enjoying good books or art of one’s choosing offers much, much more than psychology ever could — which imo is as it should be.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-268836 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:27:52 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-268836 Eastern philosophies and spiritual traditions offer a vastly different way of seeing the world and one’s place in it than western psychology, philosophy, or spiritual traditions, as the former emphasize learning humility through losing one’s ego — rather than endlessly promoting it.

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]]> By: Birdsong https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/the-psychological-humanities-manifesto-an-interview-with-mark-freeman/#comment-268831 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:40:03 +0000 https://www.madinamerica.com/?p=253306#comment-268831 When the mind goes the heart remains.

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