THE PSYCHSURVIVALIST

My response to #SamAltman, #RayKurzwell, #JensenHuang et al. How they are feeding the machine through their passive enabling of politicians' wars that we as individuals and as a society have no business supporting. How #AI and #AGI are rendering our concepts of #intelligence meaningless and how all the efforts of the entitled, well-financed, and empowered will eventually encounter the same end as...

In which I discuss how to recognize the #limbicsystem in #psychotherapy and in life. While we are talking to a client about the things that concern them, there is a more basic, perhaps primitive mode of thinking that is ever present influencing that person's thoughts and actions just as much as and perhaps more than what they are presenting. We can either pay attention to it or adhere to what is b...

#TheSnake is the origin of #Personality. We thought we knew what a #PersonalityDisorder is only to learn that we have never defined what personality is. We can discuss, even define symptoms related to personality disorders, but we can't say what it is in #HumanExperience that makes us the way we are, why one turns out to be a #Psychopath and another a #BorderlinePersonality. Each of us equally, ev...

This is episode 13 with the artwork included. Sorry for any inconvenience due to my error. How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is used to interpret how life events affect us as we go from passive observer, however scientific, to acti...

How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is used to interpret how life events affect us as we go from passive observer, however scientific, to active interpreters of our own experience and vicariously through others. How this might be wha...

An introduction to how the #rational prefers to overlook the part of us that is #irrational that may have still more influence on our actions. This is the #unconscious of #Freud and #Jung, but that is played out on a much larger stage, a part that influences all of our actions on an ongoing basis and that often impels us to decisions that may be #self-serving and #harmful of others, but that may l...

In which I present the notion that the #unconscious mind doesn't only express itself in our #dreams or when we are not fully aware or in control of what we are doing, but that it is an ongoing participant of our daily life and in our thinking. I argue that it is the basis for what we regard as #internalconflicts because it may not be in agreement with who we perceive ourselves to be and may take a...

Applying #instinct to #psychodiagnostics. Incorporating feelings in the process of diagnosis. Going beyond #ActiveListening Theory to a more indepth form of listening.

#Psychsurvivalist What is a #psychiatricdiagnosis anyway? Is it the name of a disease? Is it mental? Biological? Is it a negative character assessment? Or is it simply name calling, a way to ostracize a person with whom we find fault for any reason or for no reason at all because we just don't like them? This episode explores several reasons for attaching a #clinicallabel, although there may be ot...

Here is an #exploration of how AI interacts with humans at a #psychological level, how it influences us and how we influence it. Without a based understanding of ourselves and our machines, we could get lost n the pursuit of #psychsurvival, by getting overwhelmed by conflicting information from different sources with different #motives. This is a first approach.

This episode is a clinical comparison of AI functioning with human brain processes, how they are alike and how they differ. The unfortunate, creepy conclusion is that each is mirroring and replicating the other, reenforcing each other even in destructive ways.

I asked MSCoPilot/AI to create a self-portrait. Like any politician #AI deflected and said that it could create a portrait of me, of my thinking as a #Psychsurvivalist based on our discussions. The result was what it called "The Minimalist Logic Monolith & Institutional Mind". This was partly based on what it understood to be my character and also on what it construed from our prior discussion...

In this episode, I describe my experience working with #Veterans, many who were combat veterans, in various stages of #PTSD. I touch on the interface between psychology, at least my background in it, and the VA system. as I recently experienced it. What it means to be a #Psychsurvivalist in a world where survival is merely taken for granted and not a major focus of any assessment or therapy.

How many psychologists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One. But the lightbulb has to want to be screwed. Change is only a small part of the equation. #Psychsurvival looks at thought and action in relations to the intended goal. Psychiatrists make the diagnoses, then write med orders with the goal of managing symptoms.. Nurses monitor patient functioning and note behavioral changes. Psycholog...

#Forensicpsychology #Criminalpsychology #Psychsurvival #Psychiatricdiagnosis If the case of #NickReiner were to come across my desk, whether for my assessment of mental health considerations of a criminal case or for Social Security Disability, these are the questions I might ask and what I would be looking for in my review of any available records in order to make a recommendation or determinatio...

#psychology Here are some early essentials of #Psychsurvivalism, that is, separating truth from lies especially when dealing with #attorneys, #politicians, and among #uniformedofficials. I will also introduce the role of #morality in all our actions, what separates morality of the #helpingprofessions whose jobs are to assist from #Iceagents who are given a uniform, a gun, and a mask with nothing e...

PsychSurvivalism : What you need to know about psychology to promote your and your family's survival and well-being. This podcast is about survival, specifically about psychological survival Most survival discussions are about weapons and methods for their use, They usually don't do as well in explaining the situations in which you might use those weapons and how to avoid getting into them. That i...