Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Two Out of Two Pretentious Born-Rich Ivy League Doctors Agree: Psychiatry is Over! 2026-02-16T01:12:22+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/two-out-of-two-pretentious-born-rich robertogreco psychiatry psychology freddiedeboer 2026 mentalhealth mentalillness medicine khameerkidia priaanand peterbreggin antipsychiatry thomasszasz danielbergner schizophrenia jamesmarkrippee aclu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9eab4a7491d2/ François Dosse’s Deleuze & Guattari 2025-07-20T06:28:52+00:00 https://www.artforum.com/columns/francois-dosses-deleuze-guattari-197100/ robertogreco2011 terryeagleton deleuze&guattari gillesdeleuze deleuze félixguattari philosophy psychology left politics nietzsche karlmarx freud desire jacqueslacan antonionegri françoismitterand noamchomsky billclinton lawrenceferlinghetti pattismith allenginsberg pierrebourdieu laborde kierkegaard jacquesderrida walterbenjamin theodoradorno bertrandrussell williamjames spinoza modernity schizophrenia capitalism literature rimbaud françoisdosse deborahglassman henribergson georgesbataille guattari lacan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c1a179de4e1/ Critical Conversations: Suicide A Conversation - YouTube 2019-04-23T03:20:05+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IozAGSY67VY robertogreco suicide mentalhealth colleges universities 2019 sokauniversityofamerica highschool depression schizophrenia kayredfieldjamison alisonmalmon activeminds mentalillness academia higherducation highered bipolardisorder soka sua https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb21d3bdedb9/ The Equality Trust | Working to improve the quality of life in the UK by reducing economic inequality 2018-08-20T04:51:04+00:00 https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/ robertogrecoThe Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better[1] is a book by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate Pickett,[2] published in 2009 by Allen Lane. The book is published in the US by Bloomsbury Press (December, 2009) with the new sub-title: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger.[3] It was then published in a paperback second edition (United Kingdom) in November 2010 by Penguin Books with the subtitle, Why Equality is Better for Everyone.[4] The book argues that there are "pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption".[5] It claims that for each of eleven different health and social problems: physical health, mental health, drug abuse, education, imprisonment, obesity, social mobility, trust and community life, violence, teenage pregnancies, and child well-being, outcomes are significantly worse in more unequal countries, whether rich or poor.[1] The book contains graphs that are available online.[6] In 2010, the authors published responses to questions about their analysis on the Equality Trust website.[7] As of September 2012, the book had sold more than 150,000 copies in English.[8] It is available in 23 foreign editions. "The Spirit Level authors: why society is more unequal than ever" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/09/society-unequal-the-spirit-level [follow-up book] "The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing" https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/188607/the-inner-level/
Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality. In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debate by showing conclusively that less-equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material inequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to define and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to empirically show, for example, that low social status is associated with elevated levels of stress, and how rates of anxiety and depression are intimately related to the inequality which makes that status paramount. Wilkinson and Pickett describe how these responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts of inequality on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception that humans are innately competitive and self-interested. They undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of 'natural' differences in individual ability. This book sheds new light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path towards them.
"Does inequality cause suicide, drug abuse and mental illness?" https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/06/14/does-inequality-cause-suicide-drug-abuse-and-mental-illness "“The Inner Level” seeks to push that debate forward, by linking inequality to a crisis of mental health. This time the authors’ argument focuses on status anxiety: stress related to fears about individuals’ places in social hierarchies. Anxiety declines as incomes rise, they show, but is higher at all levels in more unequal countries—to the extent that the richest 10% of people in high-inequality countries are more socially anxious than all but the bottom 10% in low-inequality countries. Anxiety contributes to a variety of mental-health problems, including depression, narcissism and schizophrenia—rates of which are alarming in the West, the authors say, and rise with inequality. Manifestations of mental illness, such as self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse and problem gambling, all seem to get worse with income dispersion, too. Such relationships seem to apply within countries as well as between them. Damaging drug use is higher in more unequal neighbourhoods of New York City, in more unequal American states and in more unequal countries. The authors emphasise that it is a person’s relative position rather than absolute income that matters most. A study of 30,000 Britons found that an individual’s place in the income hierarchy predicted the incidence of mental stress more accurately than absolute income did. And in America, relative income is more closely linked to depression than absolute income. It is not enough to lift all boats, their work suggests, if the poshest vessels are always buoyed up more than the humblest. The fact that relative status matters so much is a result of human beings’ intrinsically social nature, Ms Pickett and Mr Wilkinson argue. Group interaction and co-operation have been an essential component of humanity’s evolutionary success; indeed, the authors say, its social nature helped drive the growth of human brains. Across primates, they write, the size of the neocortex—a part of the brain responsible for higher-level cognitive functions—varies with the typical group size of a species. Living in complex social groups is hard cognitive work. Survival requires an understanding of roles within the social hierarchy, and intuition of what others are thinking. Thus people are necessarily sensitive to their status within groups, and to social developments that threaten it. Such hierarchies are found in all human societies. But as inequality rises, differences in status become harder to ignore. There is more to be gained or lost by moving from one rung on the ladder to another. And however much some maintain that disparities in pay-cheques do not correspond to differences in human worth, such well-meaning pieties feel hollow when high-rollers earn hundreds or thousands of times what ordinary folk take home. Money cannot buy everything, but it can buy most things. The steeper the income gradient, the less secure everyone becomes, in both their self-respect and their sense of the community’s esteem. And so people compensate. They take pills, to steel their nerves or dull the pain. Some cut themselves. Some adopt a more submissive posture, avoiding contact with others. Yet such withdrawal can feed on itself, depriving recluses of the social interaction that is important to mental health, undermining relationships and careers and contributing to economic hardship. Others respond in the opposite way, by behaving more aggressively and egotistically. Studies of narcissistic tendencies showed a steep increase between 1982 and 2006, the authors report; 30% more Americans displayed narcissistic characteristics at the end of the period than at the beginning. Scrutiny of successive American cohorts found a progressive rise in those listing wealth and fame as important goals (above fulfilment and community). Over time, more people cited money as the main motivation for attending college (rather than intellectual enrichment). Domineering responses to anxiety are associated with loss of empathy and delusions of grandeur. Thus highly successful people often display narcissistic or even psychopathic behaviour. In surveys, the rich are generally less empathetic and more likely to think they deserve special treatment than others. Modern capitalism, the authors suggest, selects for assertiveness, for a lack of sentimentality in business and comfort in sacking underlings, and for showy displays of economic strength. From the top to the bottom of the income spectrum, people use conspicuous consumption and other means of enhancing their image to project status. The least secure are often the most likely to exaggerate their qualities. For example, countries with lower average life-expectancy tend to do better on measures of self-reported health; 54% of Japanese say they are in good health compared with 80% of Americans, though the Japanese live five years longer on average. Whereas 70% of Swedes consider themselves to be above-average drivers, 90% of Americans do. Such figures cast declamations of America’s greatness, and the politicians who make them, in a new light." "The Inner Level review – how more equal societies reduce stress and improve wellbeing" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/20/the-inner-level-review ] [via: https://www.instagram.com/p/BmquJ7Ngvme/ ]]]> equality inequality society trust anxiety well-being stress mentalhealth uk economics community socialmobility class education drugs drugabuse health violence illness consumption hierarchy horizontality mentalillness status self-harm gambling depression narcissism schizophrenia relativity excess cooperation egotism selfishness empathy dunning–krugereffect greatness politics lifeexpectancy japan sweden us driving capitalism latecapitalism fame fulfillment money motivation colleges universities exceptionalism assertiveness aggressiveness richardwilkinson katepickett growth erichfromm wellbeing latestagecapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83c2ba12cb5a/ The Touch of Madness - Pacific Standard 2017-10-16T03:40:15+00:00 https://psmag.com/magazine/the-touch-of-madness-mental-health-schizophrenia robertogrecoThe more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him, the more he is obliged to volunteer information about himself, even though the cost to him of candor may have increased proportionally. What candor had Jones offered that cost her so dear? Jones, searching through the dimness of memory, has come to believe that the simplest, most likely explanation for her being barred from campus is that one particular hallucination she confessed to one person, or perhaps two or three people, got badly misunderstood." … "Although Jones' exile lasted but a week or two, this brief banishment, she would later record, "set in motion a chain of events that were to forever change my life, perhaps as profoundly as the 'diagnosis' of schizophrenia itself." It released a set of forces that no one understood and no one knew how to stop. And it may have done so not because Jones actually threatened violence, but because the culture around her was so ready to equate psychosis with violence that her diagnosis made her a threat. One of the questions here that comes quickest to mind—what did Jones do to provoke such a reaction?—may be a red herring. Her mere passage into psychosis may have been enough to provoke expulsion. When Jones returned to campus after 10 days or so, she says, virtually none of her fellow students and few of the faculty would even look at her. As her classmates pulled back, Jones withdrew further. "She was just kind of gone," says Kieran Aarons, a fellow philosophy graduate student who had also known Jones as a fellow undergraduate in Oregon. "She wasn't disrupting anything, or having outbursts. But she was very clearly not in the room." In the weeks after her return, Jones became estranged not just from Chanter but from the rest of the circle of classmates who'd formed around Chanter. She eventually lost even Erfani, with whom she hasn't talked since. Because it pained Jones to see her professors, she studied their schedules so she could time her entrances and exits from the building so as to avoid them. When that wasn't good enough, she would enter a bathroom and lock herself in a stall for long periods of time, unable to face anyone. People noticed this too. At this point she started having disturbingly vivid visions of killing herself. She felt utterly crushed, helpless, and alone." … "If her exile two Aprils before had thrown Jones down a well, she now collapsed at its bottom and lay drowning. She could not think. Could not read. Could not tell who was real and who was not, what was actually happening and what she was imagining. Could not tell whether such distinctions even mattered. When she looked people in the eyes, she felt them enter her mind and read all her thoughts. She felt both formless and isolated, selfless and alone, borderless, "as if erased." For one period many days long, possibly weeks, she surrendered completely to her demons and delusions. "I didn't even get out of bed," she said later. "And when I say I didn't get out of bed, I mean I did not get out of bed. There were days I could not summon the energy, or perhaps the will, to walk from the bed to the bathroom." In retrospect, she says, she surrendered to a dynamic she had examined in one of the last philosophy papers she managed to finish, written when things were unraveling the spring before. Fifty years earlier, the British psychotherapist Donald Winnicott had proposed that the elaborate delusional worlds that typify schizophrenia in Western cultures are not arbitrary structures of a broken, schizophrenic mind, but a complex set of mental fortifications the person builds to protect herself against the real world, which she worries will seize and lock her away because she is insane. It's madness as an Escherian stairway to hell. Years later, Jones would find this vision a credible explanation of her own descent into madness. For a year or more after her expulsion, she often stayed in her head's delusional worlds not because she had lost her mind, but because her mind felt safer in delusion than in her ruined reality. "Everything is on fire, in flames, burning," she wrote in her diary. "My thoughts are everywhere ... a cloud, a pack of birds, a pack of wolves.""]]> 2017 daviddobbs mentalhealth psychology health culture madness nevjones japan ethiopia colombo addisababa schizophrenia society srilanka shekharsaxena philosophy perception treatment medicine psychosis media academia anthropology daniellende pauleugenbleuler emilkraepelin danielpaulschreber edwadsapir relationships therapy tinachanter namitagoswami irenehurford richardnoll ethanwatters wolfgangjilek wolfgangpfeiffer stigma banishment hallucinations really but alterations of temporality time spatiality depthperception kinesthetics memory memories reality phenomenology subjectivity consciousness donaldwinnicott alienation kinship isolation tanyaluhrmann https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0790015b0dd0/ Dr. Nev Jones on Vimeo 2017-10-16T01:40:11+00:00 https://vimeo.com/203613867 robertogreco nevjones academia psychology psychosis schizophrenia 2017 mentalhealth healthcare health ptsd immigration support culture society risk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2459dab21aff/ Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise it | Richard Bentall | Opinion | The Guardian 2016-05-16T21:16:43+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/26/mental-illness-misery-childhood-traumas robertogreco richardbentall health mentalhealth 2016 economics poverty schizophrenia bipolardisorder depression psychology publichealth inequality socialinequality migration race class https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:232c354bbc1d/ Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert | Art and design | The Guardian 2015-06-03T21:20:29+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/22/agnes-martin-the-artist-mystic-who-disappeared-into-the-desert robertogreco agnesmartin art olivialaing 2015 schizophrenia minimalism emptiness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ede11e6fdc6/ Open Ed 12 - Gardner Campbell Keynote - Ecologies of Yearning - YouTube 2014-05-13T01:25:58+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIzA4ItynYw robertogreco 2012 gardnercampbell nassimtaleb academia web participatory learning howwelearn hierarchyoflearning love habituation adaption open openeducation coursera gregorybateson udacity sebastianthrun mooc moocs georgesiemens stephendownes davecormier carolyeager aleccouros jimgroom audreywatters edupunk jalfredprufrock missingthepoint highered edx highereducation tseliot rubrics control assessment quantification canon administration hierarchy hierarchies pedagogy philosophy doublebind paranoia hepephrenia catatonia mentalhealth schizophrenia life grades grading seymourpapert ecologiesofyearning systems systemsthinking suppression context education conditioning pavlov gamification freedom liberation alankay human humans humanism agency moreofthesame metacontexts unfinished ongoing lifelonglearning cognition communication networkedtranscontextualism transcontextualism transcontextualsyndromes apgartest virginiaapgar howweteach scottmccloud michaelchorost georgedyson opening openness orpheus experience consciousness pur https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecf07b87f162/ Inner Voices - Radiolab 2013-06-30T03:14:55+00:00 http://www.radiolab.org/2013/jun/27/ robertogreco radiolab melblanc brain thinking neuroscience bugsbunny music voices vygotsky charlesfernyhough language claudesteele education iq codeswitching personalities acting bobmilne jessicabenko kerstinbetterman piano ragtime schizophrenia 2013 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ac4328d76588/ Synesthesia's blended senses - latimes.com 2012-02-22T12:39:35+00:00 http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-synesthesia-brain-20120220,0,6760571.story robertogreco davideagleman sensoryprocessingdysfunction depression epilepsy alzheimers schizophrenia autism music sudio sounds smells colors numbers ucsd networks senses brain neuroscience 2012 synesthesia https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:133f6a079c71/ The Essential Psychopathology Of Creativity 2012-02-13T06:29:43+00:00 http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/print/4236 robertogreco lianegabora johngartner hypomaticedge hypomanicepisodes flow mihalycsikszentmihalyi entrepreneurship executivefunction cognitivecontrol psychopathology genetics brain psychology bipolardisorder schizophrenia adhd andreakuszewski 2010 creativity https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b2d66d10a20c/ How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The Atlantic 2012-02-10T16:23:03+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/?single_page=true robertogreco kathleenmcauliffe jaroslavflegr pets animals mentalhealth biology science schizophrenia toxoplasma psychology parasites toxoplasmosis cats https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7455d8b10e3f/ The Brain on Trial - Magazine - The Atlantic 2011-06-25T23:16:48+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/ robertogreco science psychology philosophy behavior biology crime punishment nature nurture naturenurture davideagleman 2011 mentalillness mentalhealth brain impulsivity impulse-control adolescence incarceration adolescents law legal future forwardthinking thinking somnambulism social socialpolicy rehabilitation neuroscience criminality recidivism predictions data brainchemistry pathology pathologies tourettes alzheimers schizophrenia mania depression murder blame blameworthiness capitalpunishment logic freewill will jurisprudence https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc252d91cdd3/ Are Distractible People More Creative? | Wired Science | Wired.com 2010-09-16T03:22:40+00:00 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/are-distractible-people-more-creative/ robertogreco jonahlehrer neuroscience attention distraction psychology creativity research brain behavior intelligence imaginzation schizophrenia memory internet online cv curation curating filtering forgetting focus https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ecbc3455077/ Marc Ngui | Drawing - 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