Our previous short article on Depression, contained a few lines about the diagnostic systems employed by classic psychiatry. Some readers raised the question what this DSM is about and some others thought it sounds like a highly technical discussion, best reserved for a workshop. This post is to explain…
Tatiana Trouvé, Desire Lines, 2015.
Technology is a modern word, a strange combination of old skills, techné that is no longer defined by familiarity with equipment. Sciences today do not only explain phenomena or discover laws of nature. They are deeply embedded in all corners of the…
A workshop by Dariush M Doust
Organized by Quán xīnlǐ zǔzhī
Interpreter: LiSiqi
Feb. 25-26 BEIJING
The seminar lasted two full days with 24 participants. Apart from the lectures and discussions, “The Draughtman’s Contract” (Peter Greenaway, 1982) was screened.
The seminar covered firstly…
In our investigation of sleeplessness and sleep disorders, we reached a crucial point, that is, we do not treat sleeplessness as an isolated phenomenon, but understand it in relation to the initial phase of a treatment (see “Sleep” 1 and 2). Subsequently, what is of greater interest is not sleep as a…
In the clinic, we encounter people, especially young adults, who complain about an invasive state of boredom. Simple tasks appear to them as tedious. Existential meaningless, powerlessness or moral distress, all are affects that accompany a lack of goal and orientation in life. Before hastening towards…
Have you seen a therapist in a Hollywood movie? Well, this is not it. Have you seen Hitchcock’s Spellbound with those dream scenes designed by Salvador Dali? You are slightly closer.
For understanding how psychoanalysts work, we made a distinction between the complaint about poor sleep or sleeplessness and the physiologically and historically determined modern conditions of human life.
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