Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 7

"[The DSM-IV] fostered an increasing tendency to chalk up...

"[The DSM-IV] fostered an increasing tendency to chalk up life's difficulties to mental illness and then treat them with psychiatric drugs." 
- Gary Greenberg on the doubts of Allen Frances (lead editor of the DSM-IV) and the increasing insurgency among psychiatrists against the DSM-5, due out in 2013, and its even laxer criteria for mental illness

"The endlessness of reality / as the consequence / of the...

"The endlessness of reality / as the consequence / of the closeness of persons, / and the end of loneliness, / between or within persons, / is declared"

- Charles Olson is one hundred years today
[hat tip B Friedlander]

"Maria Glymour, an assistant professor of Society, Human ...

"Maria Glymour, an assistant professor of Society, Human Development and Health at Harvard, and her colleagues reported their findings on emotional support in stroke in the journal Neuroepidemiology. In this article, they reported that emotional support led to better thinking ability six months down the line and also greater improvement in thinking at the same time. This suggests that the mental

in point of fact there is no Virginia either

[Forget whether there's a Santa. That's just an honored and sanctimonious ruse. What's really a puzzle is the stories we tell ourselves, almost w/out awareness, about our own existence.]

Dear Editor,
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon115 W.

mindfulness practice more effective than drugs

The results were stark. Not surprisingly, patients who escaped depression with the help of anti-depressants, and then stopped taking the drugs, relapsed about 70 percent of the time. The chemical boost was temporary. However, during the 18 month follow-up period, only 28 percent of patients in mindfulness therapy slipped back into the mental illness.
- Jonah Lehrer, "In Defense of Therapy"

"Food is one part. Love is another part."

Day 10 Illinois Vipassana Meditation Center

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Here again we find affinity with Heidegger, who claimed that the authentic discourse with the other is in fact silence. [fn., For Heidegger, the reason is that abolishing communication (in the daily sense of this expression) is the essential moment that accompanies authenticity, since it directs Dasein to his inwardness.]
- Dana Freibach-Heifetz"Pure Air and Solitude and Bread and Medicine:

"even there I was laughing"

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"I never hate and I have never hated. Hatred brings only hatred."

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there s...

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

- Pooh's Little Instruction Book