This book is phenomenal. I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone interested in effecting any kind of change.

Want to get a sense of the music Plato might have listened to as he was dying? Watch this fascinating video based on Armand D'Angour’s important insights and research #aulosnotflute

The problem with psychedelic trials...

My new backyard companion.

Allow me to share this new case study on #delusions of love & pasion in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal #dementia
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At age 59, after the death of her husband & after the loss of her son to suicide, Mrs M showed features of the so-called Clerambault delusion...

Jane van Dis MD 🌎 'In general, administrators [aka 'leadership'] are paid for by a college or university’s endowment.'

Sponsor-paid university administrative operatives control both academics and students and thus shape research and education.

wapo.st/4aTXROx

Discharged by Death: Inside a Japanese Mental Hospital

'From a whistleblower ...records of nearly 1,500 patients..revealed rampant patient abuse, illegal physical constraints and the fact that 78% of patients were discharged by death.'

www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/sh…

A reminder that's worth putting out there every so often

The major reason #academia is not standing up to the major challenges of our times, such as #ecologicalovershoot , #climatecrisis , the decline of #democracy , and the rise of #authoritarianism , is that academia is part of the problem.

'Fossil fuel money has flowed to academic centers for decades in exchange for research that advances their objectives, access to policymakers, and civic goodwill.. This relationship has for years gone mostly unquestioned by mainstream media and regulators'
drilled.media/news/hearingdo…

“We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.”

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

- Peter Singer

'The government..cancelled CPR’s..funding.. The Centre for Policy Research has lost..most of its staff and is running out of cash..Now any research organization in India is going to be wary of getting involved in anything that may challenge the government'
nature.com/articles/d4158…

'Climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks in Germany'

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Sharpen your diagnostic skills in the new Carlat Psychiatry Podcast, where clinicians who live with #mentalillness tell us what the symptoms are really like:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wou…

#psychiatry #depression #bipolar #anxiety #addiction #PTSD #psychosis #Schizophrenia

Art: Alan D.…

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'The conflict between mass delusion and biophysical reality is increasingly evident in the destabilization of the ecosphere induced by the excessive scale of the human enterprise.

mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/3/…

'The last time CO2 levels were as high as today, ocean waters drowned the lands where metropolises like Houston, Miami, and New York City now exist.'

If emissions stopped today, It would take thousands of years for CO2 to return to pre-industrial levels.

mashable.com/article/carbon…

'According to historians, the absolute worst time to be alive was 536-550 AD, when three different volcanic eruptions blotted out the sun across most of the planet... We're living through our own version of the sixth century. Everything is changing.'

okdoomer.io/the-worst-time…