Enjoying the view from Limbo
In 2018, reacting in part to an endless litany of cases over the years of university students telling me, usually in matter-of-fact tones, that they and/or their friends had been prescribed brain-altering psychological drugs to treat depression, anxiety, sleep problems, or what have you, I finally decided to sit down and sort out in writing some of my various frustrations at this mass...
A psychiatrist named Mark Horowitz is making waves these days by publishing research indicating that there is in fact no substantial scientific evidence showing that ordinary human depression, for which hundreds of millions of people around the world are taking powerful prescription medication, has any connection to the supposed chemical imbalance in the brain for which the standard “antidepressant” medicine is alleged to...
There has been a lot of careless banter lately about the mental health of various American politicians and their supporters. From Donald Trump to Joe Biden, and from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to “progressivism is a mental illness,” opportunists of the left and right, including even some professional psychologists on both sides, have taken to exploiting the language of mental health, or rather mental...
Death by Education / Ideas and Reflections
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 6, 2018 · Last modified October 9, 2022
The most humbling honor of being a teacher — I mean a teacher, not just a salaried “education worker” — is earning the trust of variously perplexed, abnormal souls who have intuited that they need some extraordinary help with their self-understanding or their relationship to the world around them, and have come to believe that you might be able to provide that help....
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