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Alexander Kriss
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March 2024
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“The Freudian metaphor of archaeology as model for the human condition was systematically replaced by a more contemporary one: the computer. The mind was no longer dense strata, with some layers accessible near the surface and others buried far beneath. Understanding the mind, in turn, was no longer a matter of plumbing the depths to unearth that which had been lost to consciousness. Instead, the mind was now seen as a machine, sophisticated but nevertheless operating according to the basic algorithm of computational science: input, processing, and output.”
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
“the cognitive-behavior perspective has running through it an emphasis on order and category (inherited from the DSM) and on rational, logical processes (inherited from the cognitive revolution) that has rendered it unsuitable for BPD, or anyone lost in the diffusion of modern diagnoses. Just as the BPD diagnosis entered the new mainstream via the DSM-III, those who suffered from it were again set adrift—either mistreated or untreated by the new breed of medication-oriented psychiatrists on one side and CBT-trained psychotherapists on the other.”
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
“Just as we often evoke psychoanalytic language without realizing it (“Don’t be so defensive!”), so too has the mind-as-machine concept entered daily speech in an insidious way. “I need to process this,” we say, though for the late twentieth-century cognitive-behaviorist, “processing” carried a very specific meaning. The idea was that people, like a computer, think and act according to rules and logic; that we are fundamentally rational beings. Emotional difficulties were therefore the result of faulty thinking that must be corrected, or conditioned behaviors that must be reconditioned. From this vantage there was little room for the psychotic core, for contradiction or ambivalence: the new metaphor conferred an implicit assumption that, as with machines, a healthy human is an optimized human. We should want to be well, to be productive, to be happy.”
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
― Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
