(Part 2) Top products from r/schizophrenia

There have been dozens and dozens of really profound sightings of UFOs throughout history by some really credible people.

I have not personally seen a UFO myself but the evidence is there. A great book I can recommend is https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Officials/dp/0307717089 this one.

It covers all the big sightings that everybody interested in the field should be familiar with. Betty and Hill abduction, the disappearance of Frederick Valentich off the coast of Australia and many many more are covered in detail. That's just to name two I know off the top of my head are covered in said book.

I've been interested in the phenomenon since I was a kid, so it probably has nothing to do with my schizophrenia. It's just a thing I have always believed in.

A great channel on Youtube is secureteam10. They regularly post sightings sent in by people from all over the world. I'd encourage you to disregard the stuff about how the moon is hollow and what not, though.

One of the most insightful things I've read on technology is Martin Heidegger's essay "The Question Concerning Technology." I'm on a mobile and it's the middle of the night, so I'm not going to go on at length (about a favorite topic of mine.) It's the attitude that goes with technology's domination, of other ways of seeing the world, that is a danger more than the technological artifacts themselves, he thought. Niel Postman has written about similar things (without mentioning Heidegger that I remember) in Technopoly. I don't worry about technology, though I am concerned by technocracy. THX 1138 is a great movie, and I've felt strongly that it's an apt metaphor for what life has been like as a software developer, for me.

[edit: I'm on my computer now, so sky's the limit...]There's a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode in which a people has a relationship to high technology that seems unusual to Captain Picard. They don't let it dominate their lives. They use it, but they don't live in a technocracy. They live in what seem like rural surroundings.

Philosophy of technology can have a dystopian twist to it, especially the little I've read that has been "Continental." I love dystopian stories. I have no solution but to read, read, read, real stuff about technology and our relation to it. Heidegger points out that it is not a thing but an attitude, as I've said. "The essence of technology is nothing technological," to quote him as well as I can. I firmly believe the solution to establishing a healthy relation to technology is to take other points of view -- other than the currently dominant (in the US) technocratic view -- and find out what they are. Phenomenology for me is right where it's at. I will understand it in my lifetime! xD If you can find these books at the library, they're ones I've read recently. Reading them may not be completely encouraging, and yet they'll take your mind off worries about the technological doodads and what they're doing. Just reading the book is a whole-body activity, it's so hard.

Heidegger's "Basic Writings" collection (paperback is cheap https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Harper-Perennial-Modern-Thought/dp/0061627011)
After you've read Heidegger's essay, "The Question Concerning Technology," Don Ihde's little book is a gem
Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives (https://www.amazon.com/Heideggers-Technologies-Postphenomenological-Perspectives-Continental)
Neil Postman's "Technopoly"
William Barrett's "The Illusion of Technique"

Perhaps "going back in time" to the earlier of these will allow a little distance from your current concerns. Seeing that technology has been viewed as problematic, by smart people, for many decades, is comforting to me. Another book that really slammed everything, it seemed, home for me, was Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man," which channels a lot of the frustration of Lucas' film. Finding another way, finding people who see differently than the company they work for does, if it makes paper clips, for example...to the paperclip company, everything has to do with making and selling paperclips. Nick Bostrom had a few funny things to say about a possible supersentient AI whose mission was to make paperclips, in the podcast (wonderful!) "The Partially Examined Life" (iTunes and http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/).

I gripe about how much of our communication is digitally mediated. Here I am on the Internet, speaking of the evils of technology. Ironic? I think a little story about Freud is in order here, then. When Freud observed that the train could take him to see his niece(?), who lived far away from Freud, he saw that this could be viewed as an argument against any of his objections to "progress"; but, he said, without the train she never would have been so far away in the first place. Without the Internet, I might spend more time talking with people face to face. It has always been one of my favorite things to do, in spite of all difficulties. It just seems so difficult now because so many people's faces are constantly pointed at screens instead of each other.

Decision-making aside: if you want to get to the gist of "The Red Pill" vs. Feminism/Post-Feminism, you're better off reading psychoanalytic theory to understand how all these manifests from each respective 'group'. I would recommend the work of Otto Kernberg--his book 'Love Relations' spells out the psychological processes the foster the dynamics for inter-sexual romantic relations. It'll do you much better than reading all the psuedo-commentary that is misguided on biased interpretation of empirical psychological studies.

That's fortunate for you. I'm glad you are able to muster it through on your own. Yeah my mom has Borderline Personality Disorder so her empathy is not always there, and my dad is highly narcissistic where it's non-existent. Together, the form the BPD/NPD couple dynamic that made it difficult growing-up being their child -- eventually they divorced, which is an uncommon thing for Chinese parents, especially for immigrants. In many ways I feel emotionally stunted and am constantly looking for emotional support from them. Therapy is my last thread to stand on my own, on a weekly basis; it's pretty stressful when my therapist has to take a few weeks off.

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Here's one that was written by a team of doctors and a group of people with the illness so you get all the facts and a bunch of different first-hand accounts. Very easy to read as it is meant for all audiences. Diagnosis: Schizophrenia

That’s how I feel about anxiety. I rarely know what exactly I’m afraid is going to happen.

I’d recommend this book: Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior. It looks at a bunch of studies investigating the concept of the “subconscious”. Tons of stuff about people being asked what would impact their preference, and then proving themselves wrong immediately after.

I feel like the voices and delusions are rooted in the subconscious, and thus can influence your preference for things in ways you cannot explain.

Hi Fried, I don't agree that what gets labeled schizophrenia is a "disorder" - that's a value judgment about how people respond to adverse experiences, psychological and biological.

Also do not agree that these problems have a biological origin (if by origin one means cause); that has never been confirmed. What I believe is that there are biological and epigenetic correlates to extreme distress as the person and environment interact.

Lastly, there been many, many accounts of full recovery from a diagnosis of schizophrenia; I thought that issue was already resolved and am always sincerely surprised when people say they think schizophrenia is incurable. I'll paste in here my list of reading of intensive psychotherapeutic approaches to schizophrenia, starting from decades ago and going up till the present, which contains a few hundred cases with many stories of "cure"; I think if people were more familiar with this work they'd be a lot more optimistic:


Wilhelm Reich (1945) – Character Analysis, 3rd Edition

http://www.amazon.com/Character-Analysis-Wilhelm-Reich/dp/0374509808/

Paul Federn (1952) – Ego Psychology and the Psychoses

http://www.amazon.com/psychology-psychoses-basic-classics-psychiatry/dp/B0007DODH6/

Freida-Fromm Reichmann (1960) – Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Intensive-Psychotherapy-Phoenix-Books/dp/0226265994/

Bryce Boyer and Peter Giovacchini (1967)– Psychoanalytic Treatment of Characterological and Schizophrenic Disorders

http://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalytic-treatment-schizophrenic-characterological-disorders/dp/B0006BOYG4/

Harold Searles (1968) – Schizophrenia and Related Subjects –

http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Schizophrenia-Related-Subjects-Maresfield/dp/0946439303/

Elvin Semrad (1969) – Teaching Psychotherapy of Psychotic Patients; Supervision of Beginning Residents in the “Clinical Approach”.

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Psychotic-Supervision-Beginning-Residents/dp/080890423X/

Bryce Boyer, ed. (1973) - Master Clinicians on Treating the Regressed Patient Volume 1

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Clinicians-Treating-Regressed-Patient/dp/0876688342

Silvano Arieti (1974) – Interpretation of Schizophrenia, 2nd Edition

http://www.amazon.com/Interpretation-Schizophrenia-Silvano-Arieti/dp/0465034292/

Vamik Volkan (1976) – Primitive Internalized Object Relations: A Clinical Study of Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizophrenic Patients

http://www.amazon.com/Primitive-Internalized-Object-Relations-Schizophrenic/dp/0823649954/

Bertram Karon and Gary VandenBos (1977) – Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: The Treatment of Choice

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Schizophrenia-The-Treatment-Choice-ebook/dp/B00C1OKHWO/

Bryce Boyer, ed. (1977) - Master Clinicians on Treating the Regressed Patient Volume 2

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Clinicians-Treating-Regressed-Patient/dp/1568210043

Gaetano Benedetti (1977) – Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Schizophrenia-Master-Work/dp/1568217560/

Harold Searles (1979) – The Nonhuman Environment in Normal Development and in Schizophrenia

http://www.amazon.com/Nonhuman-Environment-Normal-Development-Schizophrenia/dp/B007BNLLNE/

Harold Searles (1979) – Countertransference and Related Subjects

http://www.amazon.com/Countertransference-Related-Subjects-Selected-Papers/dp/0823610853

Ping-Nie Pao (1979) – Schizophrenic Disorders: Theory and Treatment from a Psychodynamic Point of View

http://www.amazon.com/Schizophrenic-Disorders-Theory-Treatment-Psychodynamic/dp/0823659909/

Donald Rinsley (1980) – Treatment of the Severely Disturbed Adolescent

http://www.amazon.com/Treatment-Severely-Disturbed-Adolescent-Rinsley/dp/1568212224/

Bryce Boyer (1983) – The Regressed Patient

http://www.amazon.com/Regressed-Patient-Bryce-L-Boyer/dp/0876686269/

Herbert Rosenfeld (1985) – Psychotic States: A Psychoanalytical Approach

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotic-States-Psychoanalytic-Approach-Maresfield/dp/0950714682/

Herbert Rosenfeld (1987) – Impasse and Interpretation: Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic, Borderline, and Neurotic Patients

http://www.amazon.com/Impasse-Interpretation-Anti-Therapeutic-Psychoanalytic-Psychoanalysis/dp/0415010128/

Bent Rosenbaum (1988) – The Language of Psychosis

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Psychosis-Bent-Rosenbaum/dp/0814774032

Thomas Ogden (1988) – The Primitive Edge of Experience

http://www.amazon.com/Primitive-Edge-Experience-Thomas-Ogden-ebook/dp/B001XCVU4E/

Edward Podvoll (1991) – The Seduction of Madness: Revolutionary Insights into the World of Psychosis and a Compassionate Approach to Recovery at Home

http://www.amazon.com/Seduction-Madness-Revolutionary-Psychosis-Compassionate/dp/0060921188/

David Rosenfeld (1992) – The Psychotic Aspects of the Personality

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotic-Aspects-Personality-David-Rosenfeld-ebook/dp/B005NYS2C6/

Gaetano Benedetti and Pier-Maria Furlan (1993) – Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: Effective Clinical Approaches – Controversies, Critiques and Recommendations

http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Schizophrenia-Effective-Approaches-Controversies-Recommendations/dp/088937077X/

Michael Robbins (1993) – Experiences of Schizophrenia: An Integration of the Personal, Scientific, and Therapeutic

http://www.amazon.com/Experiences-Schizophrenia-Integration-Scientific-Therapeutic/dp/0898629977/