Posts for the “The unity of the Subject vs a process of human BEING” category
…diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely: Inquiry into the ‘Schizophrenia’ Label
by Julia Evans on December 6, 2012
The Inquiry into the ‘Schizophrenia’ Label (ISL) : ‘However, our preliminary findings show that the diagnosis itself and its usefulness and validity are under question and may need discarding completely. The (…)
Happiness is too close to hedonism : George Vaillent : Comment on ‘Today programme’
by Julia Evans on November 14, 2012
Quick post! In the past I have circulated (before the days of LW) many commentaries on the Government’s bonkers clinic of ‘Happiness’. I will be posting Willem Buiter’s (a former (…)
Mental Health: as standard or other…
by Julia Evans on October 22, 2012
These reflections were started when in a semi-comatose state I listened to a report of a seminar at Lambeth Palace on how faith communities can help combat the stigma of (…)
Giles Fraser reinterpretes ‘Kant avec Sade’ around Occupy London at St Paul’s
by Julia Evans on October 14, 2012
There are a series of relevant articles waiting to be posted. I have given up saving to the desktop as it is now covered with urgent postings. The new file (…)
Do the ‘evidence-based’ results of brain scanning debunk Freud both scientifically and in the clinic?
by Julia Evans on September 5, 2012
My attention was caught this morning by a report by Tom Feilden on the BBC Today programme, titled ‘How neuroscience could help explain human emotions’[i]. ‘So what?’, I hear (…)
For your action (UK):the Law Commission’s CON-sultation which closes on 31st May 2012
by Julia Evans on May 28, 2012
Thank you to the informant who spotted this. This Government is exceeding the last Government’s standards of CON-sultation. It CON-sults those who it knows will say ‘yes’. Your action is (…)
Sadeian power, the UK Government……… & CON-sultations
by Julia Evans on February 3, 2012
Contents 1) A further post to www.LacanianWorks.net : my response to a Government CON-sultation, assumptions & the concrete wall which protects the collaborators & excludes everyone else. 2) How (…)
‘Meno’, Montaigne and the ‘Docta Ignorantia’: Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century
by Bruce Scott on January 21, 2012
Plato’s Dialogue, ‘Meno’, (written in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. [i]) is a wonderful example of an anti-technological and anti-systemizing stance towards psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. In the ‘Meno’, (…)
The Government’s reforms to the NHS? A car crash in slow motion playing out before our very eyes. Stephen Wright
by Julia Evans on January 6, 2012
We’re spending millions, billions, on changes for which there was no electoral mandate, for which there is no need, based on fundamentally flawed thinking that competition, not co-operation delivers the (…)
How Government Action goes wrong…. ‘The report says the department pushed ahead without undertaking basic project approval checks, taking decisions before testing the ideas for feasibility.’
by Julia Evans on September 20, 2011
My comments and the title are provoked by the report of the Fire service Reorganisation as in the Guardian[i] From the Guardian report: – Margaret Hodge, the Labour chair (…)