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The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the diagnoses were so unreliable, and the Rosenhan experiment confirmed it." Spitzer's"
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name. It was truly a revolution in psychiatry, and a gold rush for drug companies, who suddenly had hundreds of new disorders they could invent medications for, millions of new patients they could treat. "The"
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this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing. Our
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And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There
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Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic." I"
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The way the diagnosis is being made in America was not something we intended," he said. "Kids with extreme irritability and moodiness and temper tantrums are being called bipolar."
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Terrible things had been done in Haiti in his name. He had profoundly altered Haitian society for three years, set it spiraling frantically in the wrong direction, destroying the lives of thousands, tainting hundreds of thousands more.
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if you get between the lawyer and his goal, you're going to get hurt.
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Well," he said, "the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient." There"
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Others took exception to being forced to wear little-girl-type dresses (a psychopath-devised punishment for noncooperation in the program).
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I learned, the field of interest was a man from Wales who could recognize all his sheep as individuals but couldn't recognize human faces, not even his wife, not even himself in the mirror.
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It was, she said, the way the book had revealed an inherent narcissism in its recipients.
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They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.
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Can't you see? It's incredibly interesting. Aren't you struck by how much action occurred simply because something went wrong with one man's brain? It's as if the rational world, your world, was a still pond and Petter's brain was a jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere." The"
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I hadn't realized what a collage of mental disorders my whole life has been,
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they saw how well behaved I was, and decided it meant I could only behave well in the environment of a psychiatric hospital and it proved I was mad." I"
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On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbors would be a perfectly understandable position. But on the inside it demonstrates you're withdrawn and aloof and you have a grandiose sense of your own importance.
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They wrote in their reports that it proved him to be "cunning" and "manipulative" and also that he was suffering from "cognitive distortion" because he didn't believe he was mad. Tony"
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Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy.
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Tony faked mental illness. That's when you have hallucinations and delusions. Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication. Tony is a psychopath. That doesn't come and go. It is how the person is." Faking"
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Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence, he explained, is exactly the kind of deceitful and manipulative act you'd expect of a psychopath.
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Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.
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Let me ask you three questions," he said. "And then you'll see it my way. Question One: What's the worst thing that you have ever done to someone? It's okay. You don't have to confess it out loud. Question Two: What's the worst criminal act that has ever been committed against you? Question Three: Which of the two was the most damaging for the victim?" The worst criminal act that has ever been committed against me was burglary. How damaging..
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I should be campaigning for his release in print in a way that appeared crusading but actually wasn't quite effective enough to work. Like planting barely noticeable seeds of doubt into the prose. Subtle. I
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The consensus from the beginning was that only 1 percent of humans had it, but the chaos they caused was so far-reaching it could actually remold society, remold it all wrong,
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White supremacists were thrilled by Bannon's appointment. One of them declared on a radio show hosted by David Duke, the former KKK leader, "Something astonishing has happened. We appear to have taken over the Republican Party." How" --
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He said, 'You have to understand, I'm an academic. I'm not trained in dealing with masses of people. I found out through the school of hard knocks that it is better not to deal with masses of people. It's not that they don't deserve the information but they really react in very strange ways. They get panicky and excited, or over-excited, and it is so easy for academics to forget that. We're trained in math. We're trained in science. We're n..
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But amongst a group who hadn't read it an opinion was beginning to form,
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be patient and curious instead of instantly judgemental.
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He perdido el buen nombre, la parte inmortal de mi ser, y solo me queda lo mas bestial.>>
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This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack -- fanning the flames of the divisive chaos from which Trump, the Twitter candidate, had risen.
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we tend to love nothing more than to declare other people insane.
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This series tells the story of a Butterfly Effect. Back when Fabian was a teenager in Brussels in the 1990s, he had an idea. Because of that idea some people in Montreal eventually started to behave differently. As a consequence, other people down in the San Fernando Valley started behaving differently, and so on. For a year, I've been tracing Fabian's Butterfly Effect. If I kept going, tracing consequence through to consequence, where migh..
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We should be like dogs.
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A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge me. I always remember going up to visit someone in prison, and this woman was sitting there. She was looking at me, growling a bit, and I could imagine what she was thinking: "There's a pedophile!" Anyway, I later discovered about her character. And I'll tell you, it outweighed anything I'd ever done.' 'What had she done?' I ask.
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The biggest lie," he said, "is, The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet." Now"
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shameworthiness lies in the space between who we are and how we present ourselves to the world
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I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.
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Vas caminando por la calle, y se produce un accidente. Un coche ha atropellado a un nino. La gente se aglomera alrededor. Te acercas, el nino yace en el suelo y hay sangre por todas partes. Te manchas un poco los zapatos, bajas la vista y dices: "Oh, mierda." Observas al nino con cierto interes, pero la imagen no te repele ni te horroriza. Solo despierta tu interes. Entonces miras a la madre y quedas fascinada al ver como exterioriza sus se..
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with social media we've created a stage for constant artificial high dramas. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.
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Psychopaths don't change," she [Essi Viding] said. "They don't learn from punishment. The best you can hope for is that they'll eventually get too old and lazy to be bothered to offend. And they can seem impressive. Charismatic. People are dazzled. So, yeah, the real trouble starts when one makes it big in mainstream society."
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I AM BASICALLY ALEX JONES'S Simon Cowell. I star-spotted him in the late-1990s. He'd been a locally renowned radio talk show host in Austin, Texas, back then, but I gave him the idea that catapulted him to fame. My idea was for the two of us to sneak into a secretive summer camp in the forests of Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where powerful men like George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger were rumored to undertake an ..
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And then there were terrible things, like Alex's assertion that the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 children was "completely fake ... they clearly used actors." Inspired by claims like this, Sandy Hook "truthers" had begun bombarding the parents of the murdered children with messages like: "You're a fraud and an asshole. Rot in hell you fucking prick." (That one had been sent to Lenny Pozner, whose 6-year-old son, Noah, died in the shooting.)"
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Alex is basically the most irresponsible man I have ever met. He uses his powers to inflame paranoia. He boldly makes stuff up to suit his weird agenda. Alex eschews facts and reason and he definitely should not have political sway.
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