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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Forensic artist draws pictures of how women see themselves vs how others see them.
This man spent TWO YEARS in solitary confinement after he was charged (but not convicted) of a DWI.
Self-Compassion and relating to the self. Touches on the problem of focusing on self-esteem.
Existential Psychology Night
I started my night by reading a chapter on Existential Psychotherapy for class and somehow got sidetracked and ended up watching I <3 Huckabees and reading Man’s Search for Meaning.
I was supposed to work on four papers and read about 12 other journal articles.
I regret nothing.
As I shall presently suggest, there is no fun in psychiatry [for the practitioner]. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
H.S. Sullivan, 1954
The 9 Circles of Scientific Hell
(via The Neuroskeptic)
First Circle: Limbo“The uppermost circle is not a place of punishment, so much as regret. Those who have committed no scientific sins as such, but who turned a blind eye to it, and encouraged it by their awarding of grants and publications, spend eternity on top of this barren mountain, watching the carnage below and reflecting on how they are partially responsible…”
Second Circle: Overselling
“This circle is reserved for those who exaggerated the importantance of their work in order to get grants or write better papers. Sinners are trapped in a huge pit, neck-deep in horrible sludge. Each sinner is provided with the single rung of a ladder, labelled ‘The Way Out - Scientists Crack Problem of Second Circle of Hell”
Third Circle: Post-Hoc Storytelling
“Sinners condemned to this circle must constantly dodge the attacks of demons armed with bows and arrows, firing more or less at random. Every time someone is hit in some part of their body, the demon proceeds to explain at enormous length how they were aiming for that exact spot all along.”Fourth Circle: P-Value Fishing“Those who tried every statistical test in the book until they got a p value less than 0.05 find themselves here, an enormous lake of murky water. Sinners sit on boats and must fish for their food. Fortunately, they have a huge selection of different fishing rods and nets (brandnames include Bayes, Student, Spearman and many more). Unfortunately, only one in 20 fish are edible, so they are constantly hungry.”
Fifth Circle: Creative Use of Outliers
“Those who ‘cleaned up’ their results by excluding inconvenient data-points are condemned here. Demons pluck out their hairs one by one, every time explaining that they are better off without that hair because there was something wrong with it.”Sixth Circle: Plagiarism“This circle is entirely empty because as soon as a sinner arrives, a winged demon carries them to another circle and forces them to suffer the punishment meted out to the people there. After their 3 year “post” is up, they are carried to another circle, and so on…”
Seventh Circle: Non-Publication of Data
“Here sinners are chained to burning chairs in front of desks covered with broken typewriters. Only if they can write an article describing their predicament, will they be set free. Each desk has a file-drawer stuffed full of these, but the drawers are locked.
Eighth Circle: Partial Publication of Data
“At any one time exactly half of the sinners here are chased around by demons prodding them with spears. The demons choose who to chase at random after ensuring that the groups are matched for age, gender, height and weight. Howling desert winds blow a constant torrent of articles announcing the success of a new program to enhance participation in physical exercise - but with no mention of the side effects.”
Ninth Circle: Inventing Data
“Here Satan himself lies trapped forever in a block of solid ice alongside the worst sinners of all. Frozen in front of their eyes is a paper explaining very convincingly that water cannot freeze in the environmental conditions of this part of Hell. Unfortunately, the data were made up.”
Hidden: Psychiatric Hospitals by George Georglou
“Between 1999 and 2002, I visited three psychiatric institutions while living and working in Kosova and Serbia on a long term project on the aftermath of the NATO conflict with Serbia. The work from the institutions, a story on it’s own, is also an integral part of this bigger narrative of conflict, division, difference and exclusion.
Money, during the years of the Milosevic regime had drained away, leaving filthy conditions, contagious diseases, lack of medical care and rehabilitation and a failure to provide oversight due to an unmotivated low paid staff struggling with their own economic difficulties.
The worst aspect was the total lack of care and stimulation and the high number of people who should never have been in these places.
By 2002, on my final visits, money had been raised in a public campaign of awareness in Serbia and with the help of a number of NGO’s conditions had improved. For me, after the initial shock at the conditions and total lack of care, it became clear that the patients from all ethnic backgrounds were able to display more community, affection and care with each other, than the sad situation that their “sane” countrymen were displaying to each other on the outside.”
Reading at 8am
Me: "Oh boy! An article on Standard Error and Reliability! I really love psychometrics!"
Article: "EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT PSYCHOMETRICS IS WRONG."
Me: D:
Article: "RELIABILITY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT RELIABILITY IS?!"
Me: D:
Article: "EQUATIONS THAT PROVE YOU ARE A MORON."
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Bilaterally symmetrical inkblots in white background (by Hermann Rorschach)
Tuesday’s Tincture Inkblot #205
Instructions: Tell me what you see.
-Enjoy
I have a soft spot for inkblots. Not as a diagnostic tool, but for their artistic value and because they are historically tied to the psychological field.
