Status Updates From Madness: The Invention of a...

Chapter 4- Aspects of mental illnesses which are changed- time, space, social interactions, and self. I agree but there might be more to that.

Chapter three finished- defense mechanisms! I agree that Freud’s establishment of psychoanalysis was important to the field of psychology, but his actual interpretations are bad science. A lot of the author’s examples that go back and cite Freud’s work to build on it, I disagree with it. I do agree with defense mechanisms and his thoughts that they exist and how they could manifest from last experience. So close!

I finished chapter 2 yesterday, and here’s what I got out of it. When people become mentally ill, there aren't just negative symptoms, there can also be positive symptoms. I agree with that. When people become mentally ill, they’re regressing into childhood. I’m less onboard with that….but ok. When people become mentally ill, they’re regressing back in time evolutionarily. I can see the argument for that but….ok.

Just finished chapter 1, and my thoughts are….1. A lot of these psychological diseases that are nonorganic have either been shown to never have existed or actually do have an organic origin, they just didn’t have the tools to see it yet….are there any truly non organic psychological illnesses? I don’t think so. I don’t agree with the premise here. God that chapter was hard to understand.