While perusing the available MALS classes that fit into my strange work schedule, for the spring semester. I was lucky enough to see this introductory course and instantly found the topic area intriguing.
Harry’s teenage obsession with Shelley s Frankenstein was played out in her Art…giant Venus, the warm dolls and Anton especially. During their last falling out she actually utters ” I created a monster” I think […]
The readings and pod casts for this week all speak to a variety of methods of defining, understanding, and treating severe mental illness. Mostly mental illnesses whose chief symptoms are auditory hallucinations. […]
The entire process of SI is truly an exercise in discipline. There feeling expressed by the translators was that the testimonies they were involved in were emotionally and mentally exhaustive. The effort to be […]
Justin,
the passage that you allude to on pages 98-99. I completely connected with. The idea of sameness and strangeness. In our reading by Karen Miller, she continuously alluded to connections between her life […]
Through my project I hope to understand how the self is framed by identity/ or labeling. In short how people suffering from physical and mental illness react to having a name for their ailments. Does it help or […]
I really had a tough time getting into this text. There were bits that felt so scattered o me and in the chapter conclusions I didn’t see where he pulled his theory together. In general I understand […]
I was born at4:30 am, July 9th
I love driving on the Northern State Parkway much more than the LIE
I had a Narc car.
I love bacon and my Mom’s pork chops, yet I always wanted a mini pot belly pig and the […]
Ian Hacking’s “Mad Travelers”, served to be the skeleton Maud Casey hung her novel on. I read Casey’s first and now I wonder if I should have read the Hacking chapters first. Casey moved about the minds of her […]
I agree that Noe’s framework is more tangible. I think both he and Demasio agree that the environment weighs heavily in the measuring, development and understanding of consciousness. So it’s like the thread […]
We never discussed the TED lecture by Jill Bolte Taylor so here are some of my thoughts.
I was at first wowed by the description of her stroke. But after Reading DeMasio and Hustvedt I wonder if Taylor’s […]
I appreciate DeMasio’s attempt at including the reader by giving examples and methods of understanding his theories and points. He has a conversational tone, Although he can get quite technical he still brings […]
Hustvedt certainly ends her voyage with acceptance. and I do agree with you that some level of acceptance is the key to happiness. But then again isn’t there an inherent complacency in that? I think some things […]
The Demasio’s autobiographical self described in both Eakin and Hustvedt’s works, constantly reevaluates it’s self. And reimages the situation, past, present. But does the constant editing of experience then […]
“It is impossible to separate nature and nurture. You cannot isolate a person from the world in which he lives, but more than that, notions of outside and inside, subject and object become entwined.” (P 69 […]
