#newpsychiatry

Our brains are great at finding useful patterns and at creating maps of our lives. We evolved to do that, to map out the world that we inhabit. And it’s a social process, I’ll share my map and my experiences

In Genes, Memes, Culture and Mental Illness, Hoyle Leigh identifies memes that inhibit or attenuate the executive (ego) function as the cause of mental illness, making it difficult for the individual to

The brains executive function runs on memes, laws which co-ordinate multiple brains. Human beings evolved to “hear voices” which mediate them to be part of a larger system, this is what norms are, or moral,

Among the memes that form selfplexes, there are those that are in direct conflict with the dominant selfplexes and therefore are particularly inhibited from replicating. These “unacceptable” memes and

Some individuals have a tyrannical selfplex that is severely repressive because it is very fragile and constantly in a state of threatened overthrow. The subversive selfplex in such a brain may be an even

Based on Hoyle Leigh's example 1 from Pathological memes, attenuation of the brain's executive function (ego) is central to decreased demand and control. The executive function runs on memes (1) - the

Excerpt from Genes, Memes, Culture and Mental Illness. The book is 6 years old and from the early days of the global spring, and it does not say it outright, but everything I've said in the #NewPsychiatry

The Jungian concept of collective unconscious can be interpreted as the memes in the meme pool called society, that are so pervasive that they enter the brains almost automatically, i.e., without undergoing

We are equipped with a brain that is particularly good at doing some functions on top of which we can build behaviors that improve our survival. That does not mean such functions are good for interpreting

The nation-state was also an extension of the brain. Human identities have been optimized for the nation-state as a form of “external brain” (1). Now with the web 3.0, there is a transition where we

Attempts to weigh the soul before and after death (18th century) Attempts to find the seat of the soul (18th century) Phineas Gage frontal lobe damage (18th century) The executive function in the brain

The “fight response” leads to increased executive-frontal lobe functioning, improved self-regulation, improves over-all goal-directed behavior, and engages the parts of the brain that are diminished during

During the mechanical ages we had extended our bodies in space. Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing

‘I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.’ — Kurt Cobain The brain is mediated by cultural units of information called memes, which are acquired via social interaction from meme pools.

Neurosis has been necessary for nation-state consensus (Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari) - New Psychiatry: Towards a 21st century model of mental health Neurosis focuses attention on danger. In P2P cultures,

Neurosis has been necessary for nation-state consensus (Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari). As technology-based trust systems replace "human-based trust systems", neurosis becomes obsolete. Will future

I recently published a model for what I call New Psychiatry, an integrated model that looks at how legal systems and brains interact.[2] The model is an attempt to formalize a framework for psychiatry

ABSTRACT. Results from functional magnetic resonance imaging and lesion studies indicate that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is essential for successful navigation through a complex social world inundated