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Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
If you occasionally feel that you are of several minds on one subject, you are probably right. In reality, you have several brains. And those brains don’t always agree.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry 1 are not based on well-tested research but on science that is itself a bit mad: misconceived, flawed, erroneous, misinterpreted, and often misreported.
Stuart A. Kirk • Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs: 0
Everyone, from software writer to accountant, was now subject to the same insecurities as the “lonely salesman” once targeted by Norman Vincent Peale.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
After analyzing the DNA of 13,000 Australians, scientists recently found several genes that differed between liberals and conservatives.15 Most of them related to neurotransmitter functioning, particularly glutamate and serotonin, both of which are involved in the brain’s response to threat and fear. This finding fits well with many studies showing
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
DiAngelo also rejects the liberal principles of individualism and “color blindness”—that a person’s race is irrelevant to her worth, as Martin Luther King, Jr., argued. Liberal values are, in The Truth According to Social Justice, racist because they enable white people to hide from the “realities” of their own racism and white supremacy. DiAngelo
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
7 DISABILITY AND FAT STUDIES Support-Group Identity Theory