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Stories We Live By

The Stories We Live By

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Retelling our own life stories that are creative and hopeful rather living as victims and in despair.

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Six year old foster child commits suicide while on psychiatric drugs. A discussion given context by New York Times column written by Thomas Friedman concerning the decline of our nation.
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We know what we believe to be real no matter how hard we try and deny unpleasant realities. In the long run there is no peace, or even real living, until we accept what we know to be true.
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A discussion of the differences between individual and societal stories based in reality and fantasy. Why "lies" are "little and white" and the "truth is so brutal."
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Stories about education and how our society's future depends upon how we change our current approach to teaching the next generation.
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Modern science treats us as machines. Psychiatry and psychology, which should foster humanistic stories to live by, pretend to be sciences that foster the story that human beings are robots or other types of hardware. Our spirits are... more
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Continuing a far ranging discussion on the dangers and corruption of the mental health industry both currently and historically.
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Robert Whitaker is the Pulitzer Prize nominated author of "Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill."
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A discussion concerning the revision of the DSM, (the diagnostic statistical manual of mental illnesses).
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The interview with Stella Levi has been delayed because she is experiencing medical problems. The Holocaust is discussed in the light of psychosocial stories.
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How to move from defective object to creative personhood.
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