Thursday, December 28, 2017

What Do Competent People (Psychologists Included) Know?

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An abstract of "What Do Competent People (Psychologists Included) Know?" to be presented at the Mid Winter Meeting of The  Society...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The Wandering, the Directed, and the Coerced Mind: A note on satisfaction, optimal learning, and oppressive strain.

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I've been thinking about wandering attention: when it's a gift, not a diagnosis. This led to some thoughts  about three states o...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The Personality Disorders are Different. A note on clinical and moral labels and Presidential psychopathology.

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Clinical and moral language serve different functions. The clinician's diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder is the disliked ne...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

A Preface to a Work in Progress: Descriptive Psychology and the Person Concept

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Descriptive Psychology and The Person Concept
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Degradation Ceremonies and the Goldwater Rule: A note on clinical diagnosis, community, and moral indignation.

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My vigilance and preoccupation with the incompetence, bluster, and threat pouring from the White House is exhausting.  I should have better...
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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Degradation, Accreditation, and the Community of the Deplorables.

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Today the Boston Descriptive Psychology Study Group began with the case of a 13 year old boy whose school system was isolating him as a...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Trump requires an admiring mirror. The politics of malignant narcissism.

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The object relationship framing this affect expresses concretely the desire to destroy or dominate the object. An almost unavoidable consequ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The Man in the High Tower: Thoughts on Accreditation Ceremonies and Trump's Narcissism.

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An unhappy followup to  Burning down the house: Trump, mobs, and narcissistic rage  .  Apologies to Philip K. Dick. Trump is president-e...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Burning Down the House: Trump, Degradation Ceremonies, and Narcissistic Rage

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A person will not choose less behavior potential over more.    Peter Ossorio, Place If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.    Matthew ...
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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Transgression, Denial, and Keeping Two Sets of Books

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She is profoundly aware of the desire she inspires, but the desire cruel and naked would humiliate and horrify her. Yet she would find no ...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Authenticity and Emotion: A note on the satisfaction of being "well-cast".

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Our culture tends to regard the mere energy of impulse as being in every mental and moral way equivalent and even superior to defined int...
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