mental health… Don’t judge 6 Jan 2020 Don't judge people with mental disorders for behaving like people with mental disorders! https://youtu.be/OpDqEB2VlD8
mental health… The tripartite model of recovery 5 Jan 2020 Are you hanging on to a limited view of recovery when in truth life is fine? Don't limit your self-concept unnecessarily. Mental health encompasses far more than merely symptom management.…
training… A change of pace 31 Dec 201931 Dec 2019 I haven't posted here for a while. I've been busy with other things but now I'm back and I'll be making a few changes. It's a new direction... a new…
evolution… Hard-wired 17a: Coincidence and irrational humanity 22 Jul 201917 Jul 2019 In terms of the psychological spandrels we discussed earlier, the tendency to make 'false positive' (type 1) errors is an evolved characteristic. Paranoia, pattern-seeking and agency-detection may well be the…
evolution… Hard-wired 17: Bias and the evolutionary ‘spandrel’ 19 Jul 201915 Jul 2019 In this video we’ll consider three of the most widespread (and misleading) of our evolved mental modules. We’ll look at ‘selective abstraction‘, ‘arbitrary inference’ and ‘confirmation bias’. Each of these…
evolution… Hardwired 16: Pattern recognition 16 Jul 201913 Jul 2019 It’s not hard to see why this obsession with patterns prevailed in the ancestral environment. The early hunter-gatherer who learned to recognise the association between plants and water would have…
evolution… Hard wired 15: The unthinking mental module 15 Jul 201913 Jul 2019 It’s easy to understand how humans and other species evolved physical characteristics as a result of adaptation and natural selection. Helpful variations confer their advantages down through the generations whilst…
psychology… Stoicism: Anticipating misfortune 14 Jul 201913 Jul 2019 "Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." (Seneca)…
psychology… Stoicism: The eternal now 13 Jul 2019 In a previous post (Irvine’s summary) I made the point that… “People generally confuse the things they can control with the things they cannot. The result is frustration and wasted…
Stoicism for mental health… Stoicism: No surprises! 8 Jul 2019 “Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, devious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance…
