Readings I Enjoyed this Week
Added 2022-12-13 20:38:09 +0000 UTCPsychology
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/your-mental-illness-beliefs-are-incoherent
Super interesting criticism of the romantization of mental illness and the effects it has on those most severely mentally ill. That harmful behaviours that occur as an expression of mental illness and that we can't distance things like racist behaviour perfectly from some of the most mentally ill people.
https://theconversation.com/cbt-is-wrong-in-how-it-understands-mental-illness-175943
Article criticizing CBT. Its not very good but I wanted to be familiar with some of the critiques about CBT amongst non-professionals.
https://watermark.silverchair.com/collabra_2022_8_1_38529.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAtAwggLMBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK9MIICuQIBADCCArIGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMicScPBq5Iw7hTNg6AgEQgIICg0ofB0NBvkL0TcT6-OinMtV26Kd4X2XL6B-gb5w2pg9h9o2pRiuK_k_2evC5NVkxBKyNH-Hd5703baVGWAcPNmt3OZtoRt5wQAdu1qhrweHbbGhIEdgXxxcg_MonYCSwqeJX1N89zs58s3XexB13AU8qgxeH8G1nG9BnjXfRq9D3FieUerfAB1mt082ZSw2fk2onS0Uk2_58sZtAx8lTaSL5DU_GCH4AEXN7v25YAkmT_cA-M5tcY1o3jEnpEiDds2dbdnFS5Gswzr1BDO8JSIXeIPvFVO1onxgQDelM_TnehMRzom0mEnJCaIJOFkD3H2IOQRPiIAaVAt4EngZSE8ari8VMTPqsmoVirXV_g9VpTyItmKKybpP6s9VLIo01nMc2HvHJUGOI_834ZQ440QffokAgPkha4EkB5AUnQQs0OA6gt0RZd_946YKVWgLrmtOy7JjRNMYFamL3tTl1nO7u5iJIHFcUrc7t3f7wzKcPnVWCERTOlFO3icM2-intP2BhM9VVPanfFt9lVnAFk9vsCVfAv-jU4igm1T8wXfcoZDdjZTWRDpDGLVt_IucRTA5uS-BC1cCku5b7pJWrmq7fQamdgPgS00M2Kxwm9KGZKt5RYfFqHYd-IcbRwafxRNAso9i5fdSYxrTf0rM_bVxyfD-EeEx7dzdygjaw7h_hese3pvsCn2Wr5nMAtHn43Cmu9ZseLtx-J59Hwfzvr0mQ7ldGh2CZVB_IjMe_bi_qy--tZADZjD5amvzX0dg7BxK2nGi2MEJ9DRFUpYAGJG6LLJ_DZhoUO3nZsLOMNM_Khtef236a7X7XRdKd_tCaZdno1R5UHyQvCVHDW_nWky0oyWA
Essay link sorry. TURNS OUT! Depressive realism is not replicable and that depressed people are not better at determining how well they will perform or to evaluate. I personally am not surprised and always found depressive realism strange to me.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312005843
New approach to evaluating IQ, breaks IQ into the multiple domains already accounted for by IQ but is dismissive of a higher order “g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXvuJu1kt48
Dr Huberman covers Marijuana. SUPER nuanced podcast on this topic. More informative than any neurobio class I have had on this topic.
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44710966/Psychopathy_versus_sociopathy-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1669428214&Signature=FXT~81X9pZtURFyLwxFwnRoew7amxQqc2E9spujxJ6XY~7I0LevhY7ZWCrUCKy9TwszwFEVcnkNA5jcaJALc-2S-JopxMm1mrnYSBiAL~~4LDXkcZXfQsxJnfbNlXIkCJCcKQGK6gzlKy0~HUAu497RFEqK3N85oWvzbmHF1MW6ezZ~K6AK1dJN-dpV7QyLYGDsbWz8xa4oixnSUuUQe7j4g5uPKgUun9WsCPYuCdRziJa4aACnz-f5k0QA8uM1EnoNZQnrd8Wj10ryDpFhzL7b0-gyYamr2gzJOeyGawKCvY3v07515MZ5rPo82HZmN~y0DlIJovvxOMykAv4micw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
Differentiating sociopathy versus psychopathy.
Politics/Phil
https://morningconsult.com/2022/08/18/america-ideology-less-liberal-but-not-necessarily-more-conservative/
Showing that people are moving away from the left and becoming moderate but the right is becoming more radical
https://onlysky.media/kmousavi/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-hijab-a-view-from-tehran/Thought piece on the symobolism of the hijab within Iran as well as the history of the religion, protestors, and the politicking within Iran.
https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=2
Free Harvard course on Justice.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm#chap01Link to The Prince by Machiavelli. I want to dedicate to learning some more political theory for the upcoming election season.
