please if you are planning on dropping this class i will pay for you to drop it!! ive been wanting to take it for a while and it will also help satisfy one of my requirements
Anyone who took the class last year willing to let me buy it off them? Crazy expensive new from the Cornell store.
Is Psychopathology I usually taught every year during Term 1? And why wasn't Psychopathology II taught this year? I'm hoping to take both courses next year.
I’m very intrigued at the fact that Kurt abducts solely young women, holds them hostage, than hunts them. I can understand (not condoning) the thrill of hunting humans. It makes sense, Kurt is obviously into the “The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924. He fantasizes and needs more advanced “game” to hunt. But he is incredibly ritualistic, to the point of losing control. She “ruined” him watching her by undressing and not running away but running towards him.
I wonder, If there is a sexual aspect to his crimes that he is repressing/suppressing/ in denial about. The fact he solely females and his dramatic reaction to anything sexual, tells me, he may be dealing with issues of ED or women in general. He’s a single dad.
I’m curious to learn more about Kurt’s mental health. There is on article mentioning “Hunting Linked To Psychosexual Inadequacy & The 5 Phases Of A Hunter’s Life Of Sexual Frustration,” But there isn’t many studies outside of hunting humans but I believe, it magnifies these feeling of inadequacy. He’s an obvious sadist, however, this is a different league of sadism. (Sadism is high in homogenous groups such as hunters) a need for power over the innocent being higher in hunters.
I think Kurt is a sadistic psychopath with sexual and power issues. I’ll leave you with a quote from The Zodiac. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
"[Killing people] is so much fun," the Zodiac Killer said in one of his letters. "It's even better than killing wild game in the forest because man is the most dangerous animal."
I am a sophomore who is invented to apply rehab science major for the spring semester. I have to choose one more psych class for this semester. I have some content knowledge of biology and chemistry since they are also part of my major prerequisite. I am here to ask which class should I take based on my personal background? I am also interested in your opinion of which one is easier. Thanks a lot!
Introduction to psychological network theories and models
Eiko Fried "Mental Health: Studying Systems Instead of Syndromes" Keynote Transdiagnostic 2021
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/eiko-fried#tab-1
As someone who is still learning about psychology at the undergrad level, I probably understand less than 5% of what he talks about in his peer-reviewed articles-- or even his blog posts and videos. However, my limited interpretation of what he says about the state of understanding key aspects of mental illness, especially the alleged limitations (?) of psychiatry/neuroscience, is unsettling yet interesting.
I have not finished even watching them, let alone begin to grasp them, but the youtube videos seem to indicate that hypotheses, theories, or models he talks about are relatively new and in need of further research...... probably to the point where the average layperson probably should not panic or have an existential crisis about their mental illness diagnosis and treatment, right?
I would like to know what you folks think about all this, or if you have ever even heard about him and read his work before.
Bonus question: How significant (or insignificant) are the APS Janet Taylor Spence Awards from your frame of reference?
Edit: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/spence-awards-2021#Fried
Has anyone taken a psy midterm with Fridlund?
Just wondering how difficult they are. The whole grade is based off one midterm and one final, so I'm a little nervous. Also, if anyone has notes they want to share/want to study together let me know, please!
I read great reviews on the professor, but I heard that there's at least 100 pages of reading each week, including Hamlet. For anyone who took this class, was the reading worth it? The topics covered in the course sound incredibly fascinating, but I also never do the readings for my other classes. I’m between this class or Human Bonding.
"Every hour, moreover, countless billions are spent on propaganda, advertising and other mystifications to sustain the delusion that the crisis-strewn society we live in today is the best and only one possible.
What is most important to grasp is that work is at the center of all these problems. It is work that keeps the whole miserabilist system going. Without work, the death-dealing juggernaut that proclaims itself the “free market” would grind to a halt. “Free market” means freedom for Capital, and unfreedom for those who work. Until the problem of work is solved — that is, until work is abolished — all other problems will not only remain, but will keep getting worse...In a world too busy to live, work itself has become toxic, a form of “digging your own grave”.
Renewed scarcities and engineered economic crises notwithstanding, society today has the capacity to reduce work to a tiny fraction of what it is now, while continuing to meet all human needs. It is obvious that if people really want paradise on Earth, they can have it — practically overnight. Of course, they will have to overcome the immense and multinational “false consciousness” industry, which works very hard to make sure that very few working people know what they really want..."
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/penelope-rosemont-the-psychopathology-of-work
Does anyone have a syllabus they can send me (I’ve emailed the prof requesting this info) or insight on this class? From assignment types, workload, what you enjoyed most/found most helpful here...Thanks IA
How much work/ how difficult is this class? I havent taken psych at unc so trying to gauge what I can take with this
I am interested in all three of them but can only take one next semester because I have a lot other major req classes to take :(. Since all of them are only offered in the spring, I can't decide which one to take. Would really appreciate any suggestions and feedback on the quality/workload/grading of the classes.
An inordinate amount of psychopathology is created by the personal will clashing with the interconnected movements of the universe. In theistic language, this represents a clash between “my will” and “God’s will”. If these two movements align into a singular process, everything begins to function seamlessly.
The mind and body, in their proper condition, are aligned with the cosmos on a subconscious level, and in ways which are yet to be understood by neuroscience (molecular signals, radiation, quantum-whatever, or something we haven’t even thought of yet). This connectedness manifests itself as intuition.
Conscious or unconscious ignorance of the subtle sensations of the body and mind in favor of life driven entirely by the personal will clashes with a reality that is interconnected, and produces suffering. Meditation and prayer (as originally intended) are simply methods of honing our ability to pick up on the subtle movements of the cosmos, and to harmonize with it.
To know that you are inseparable from a process that began with the inception of the universe restores the mind to wholeness. We are functions of the universe, not masters of it. Knowing that destroys all fear.
Any good sources about the cultural perspective on psychopathology? Like how does the cultural school explain behavior/psychopathology
The Psychoanalysis Reading Group Discord Server is hosting a reading up on Fairbairn papers
Time
Sunday's @ 1PM Eastern (see in your timezone),
Invite link
Notes
Recommended readers:
Celani, David. Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting. Columbia University Press. ISBN: 9780231520232, 0231520239
Format
The discord has an intro room where members are screened. An admin will let you in! Afterwards there is a text chatroom for discussing the paper asynchronously and voice channel for the discussions.
Upcoming schedule
Sunday, Nov 28th @ 1PM ET: First half: Fairbairn's A Revised Psychopathology of the Psychoses and Psychoneuroses (1941), Link
Sunday, Dec 5th @ 1PM ET: Second half: Fairbairn's A Revised Psychopathology of the Psychoses and Psychoneuroses (1941)
Sunday, Dec 12th @ 1PM ET: First half: The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects (with Special Reference to the ‘War Neuroses’) (1943), Link
Sunday, Dec 19th @ 1PM ET: Second half: The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects (with Special Reference to the ‘War Neuroses’) (1943)
Any good sources about the cultural perspective on psychopathology? Like how does the cultural school explain behavior/psychopathology
