Kemtrup
@kemtrup.bsky.social
Thoughts not about anything professional
Do politicians ever try to win by advocating something like Rawls’ “property owning democracy” which rests (heavily) on taxing inheritance (and inheritance-like gifts) to create funds for young people who don’t have inheritance?
August 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Do politicians ever try to win by advocating something like Rawls’ “property owning democracy” which rests (heavily) on taxing inheritance (and inheritance-like gifts) to create funds for young people who don’t have inheritance?
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Really enjoyed this conversation between @kemtrup.bsky.social & Max Kusovitsky on Winnicott's fear of breakdown--fear of something that has already happened to us & its implications for treatment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
wtf is a mental breakdown? wtf is a self? wtf is boredom?
YouTube video by wtf is life
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April 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation between @kemtrup.bsky.social & Max Kusovitsky on Winnicott's fear of breakdown--fear of something that has already happened to us & its implications for treatment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
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I am on the Thinking Mind podcast with Anya Borissova, talking about various conceptual and critical issues around psychiatric diagnosis and classification.
thinkingmindpodcast.buzzsprout.com/277019/episo...
thinkingmindpodcast.buzzsprout.com/277019/episo...
E116 - What are Mental Disorders? (with Dr. Awais Aftab) - The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Dr Awais Aftab is a psychiatrist in Cleveland, Ohio and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Conversations in Critical Psychiatry - a 2024...
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March 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I am on the Thinking Mind podcast with Anya Borissova, talking about various conceptual and critical issues around psychiatric diagnosis and classification.
thinkingmindpodcast.buzzsprout.com/277019/episo...
thinkingmindpodcast.buzzsprout.com/277019/episo...
One thing to add. If you don’t have the ability “mentalize,” you can’t trust allies and friends. The idea that you and your allies put aside short term self-interest in order to gain more in the long term is virtually unbelievable. Cooperation and mutual advantage that
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
The Dark Heart of Trump’s Foreign Policy
With Fareed Zakaria
open.spotify.com/episode/1ehB...
youtu.be/305ZAppMlN8?...
The Dark Heart of Trump’s Foreign Policy
With Fareed Zakaria
open.spotify.com/episode/1ehB...
youtu.be/305ZAppMlN8?...
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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March 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
One thing to add. If you don’t have the ability “mentalize,” you can’t trust allies and friends. The idea that you and your allies put aside short term self-interest in order to gain more in the long term is virtually unbelievable. Cooperation and mutual advantage that
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Neurodiversity and the Myth of Moral Decline
How to spot reactionary critiques of medicalisation
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
How to spot reactionary critiques of medicalisation
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
Neurodiversity and the Myth of Moral Decline
How to spot reactionary critiques of medicalisation
open.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Neurodiversity and the Myth of Moral Decline
How to spot reactionary critiques of medicalisation
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
How to spot reactionary critiques of medicalisation
@drrobertchapman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
This is a game in which one learns the most awkward ways to move their arms.
This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.
February 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is a game in which one learns the most awkward ways to move their arms.
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Can we do psych without psychoanalysis?
@psychiara.bsky.social offers some thoughts.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/fr...
@psychiara.bsky.social offers some thoughts.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/fr...
What's New? The Enduring Influence of Psychoanalysis
Many contemporary approaches to psychotherapy have their origins in classic psychoanalytic theory, yet they ignore or negate some fundamental dynamic principles.
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February 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Can we do psych without psychoanalysis?
@psychiara.bsky.social offers some thoughts.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/fr...
@psychiara.bsky.social offers some thoughts.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/fr...
Recent current events in politics cannot be understood well without reference to what psychoanalysts call “omnipotence.” Simply put, the idea is that an infant feels omnipotent in ordinary “good enough” conditions. The baby is hungry and food is provided. The baby wants relief, and comfort is
February 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Recent current events in politics cannot be understood well without reference to what psychoanalysts call “omnipotence.” Simply put, the idea is that an infant feels omnipotent in ordinary “good enough” conditions. The baby is hungry and food is provided. The baby wants relief, and comfort is
Colwyn Trevarthan’s work on infants and “musicality” of early relationships and the bodily origins of mental life seem not well known but are so interesting.
Here’s an intro:
Thoughts?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-T...
Here’s an intro:
Thoughts?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-T...
Colwyn Trevarthen – Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience
YouTube video by The Evolved Nest
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January 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Colwyn Trevarthan’s work on infants and “musicality” of early relationships and the bodily origins of mental life seem not well known but are so interesting.
Here’s an intro:
Thoughts?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-T...
Here’s an intro:
Thoughts?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-T...
My Thesis: The root problem of most problems in psychotherapy and psychiatry is an unnecessary and pernicious institutional pressure to diagnose and act algorithmically and simply instead of with complexity and context. Procedure over thinking. Rules over adaptive practical reasoning.
January 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My Thesis: The root problem of most problems in psychotherapy and psychiatry is an unnecessary and pernicious institutional pressure to diagnose and act algorithmically and simply instead of with complexity and context. Procedure over thinking. Rules over adaptive practical reasoning.
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Wise words from C. Thi Nguyen for a world chasing measurements. issues.org/limits-of-da...
The Limits of Data
Policymakers want to make decisions based on clear data, but important factors are lost when we rely solely on data. A philosopher writes:
issues.org
December 13, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Wise words from C. Thi Nguyen for a world chasing measurements. issues.org/limits-of-da...
Was very pleased to discover the work of Ben Lahey. A nice overview in a podcast interview here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
He argues for dimensional psych nosology and against (most?) categorical diagnoses on both scientific, clinical, and social grounds.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
He argues for dimensional psych nosology and against (most?) categorical diagnoses on both scientific, clinical, and social grounds.
226. Dimensional Conceptualization of Psychological Problems w/ Dr. Ben Lahey
Podcast Episode · The Testing Psychologist Podcast · 08/16/2021 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Was very pleased to discover the work of Ben Lahey. A nice overview in a podcast interview here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
He argues for dimensional psych nosology and against (most?) categorical diagnoses on both scientific, clinical, and social grounds.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
He argues for dimensional psych nosology and against (most?) categorical diagnoses on both scientific, clinical, and social grounds.
Is there anyone that objects to the claim that the concept of a “psychological problem” is not the same as a “mental illness,” (though they may overlap) and isn’t necessarily less dire, serious, deadly etc?
What would be the objection?
I will define “psych problem” below.
What would be the objection?
I will define “psych problem” below.
January 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Is there anyone that objects to the claim that the concept of a “psychological problem” is not the same as a “mental illness,” (though they may overlap) and isn’t necessarily less dire, serious, deadly etc?
What would be the objection?
I will define “psych problem” below.
What would be the objection?
I will define “psych problem” below.
A question for the AI therapy bot folks:
Does Jones feel free to tell the LLM anything about himself BECAUSE he knows the LLM doesn’t have feelings about him (like talking to a wall) or does he open up to it BECAUSE he starts to trust that it will have feelings about him while he opens up to it?
Does Jones feel free to tell the LLM anything about himself BECAUSE he knows the LLM doesn’t have feelings about him (like talking to a wall) or does he open up to it BECAUSE he starts to trust that it will have feelings about him while he opens up to it?
January 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
A question for the AI therapy bot folks:
Does Jones feel free to tell the LLM anything about himself BECAUSE he knows the LLM doesn’t have feelings about him (like talking to a wall) or does he open up to it BECAUSE he starts to trust that it will have feelings about him while he opens up to it?
Does Jones feel free to tell the LLM anything about himself BECAUSE he knows the LLM doesn’t have feelings about him (like talking to a wall) or does he open up to it BECAUSE he starts to trust that it will have feelings about him while he opens up to it?
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Very true - so much variation in how someone could respond to an experience or situation. My friend & I were talking the other day about Van der Kolk's "Body Keeps the Score" and how this framework reduces so much that is interpretive, social, cultural & developmental to body and neuro stuff.
January 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Very true - so much variation in how someone could respond to an experience or situation. My friend & I were talking the other day about Van der Kolk's "Body Keeps the Score" and how this framework reduces so much that is interpretive, social, cultural & developmental to body and neuro stuff.
There is a lot of reductionism in attempts to find bio explanations for psychopathology.
And there is a lot of unjustified reification of essences in psych nosology.
But nowhere do we reduce and reify as problematically as we do with the concept of trauma.
And there is a lot of unjustified reification of essences in psych nosology.
But nowhere do we reduce and reify as problematically as we do with the concept of trauma.
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer ( @ent3c.bsky.social )
“The empirical end to the Galtonian project is more whimper than bang.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbear...
“The empirical end to the Galtonian project is more whimper than bang.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbear...
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer is Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia.
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
There is a lot of reductionism in attempts to find bio explanations for psychopathology.
And there is a lot of unjustified reification of essences in psych nosology.
But nowhere do we reduce and reify as problematically as we do with the concept of trauma.
And there is a lot of unjustified reification of essences in psych nosology.
But nowhere do we reduce and reify as problematically as we do with the concept of trauma.
“Ind genotypes create potentials and place limits on what humans can become, but unless you have an identical twin, it is imp to know what those limits and potentials are. On average, we will all turn out more or less like our parents and siblings, but we didn’t need adv genomics to tell us that.”
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer ( @ent3c.bsky.social )
“The empirical end to the Galtonian project is more whimper than bang.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbear...
“The empirical end to the Galtonian project is more whimper than bang.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbear...
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer is Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia.
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“Ind genotypes create potentials and place limits on what humans can become, but unless you have an identical twin, it is imp to know what those limits and potentials are. On average, we will all turn out more or less like our parents and siblings, but we didn’t need adv genomics to tell us that.”
“I still insist that unrealistic exaggeration of genetic effects has negative consequences…
The most imp of these consequences is that over-enthusiastic “optimism” about genetic effects encourages the biologization of things that are not fundamentally biological.”
The most imp of these consequences is that over-enthusiastic “optimism” about genetic effects encourages the biologization of things that are not fundamentally biological.”
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer ( @ent3c.bsky.social )
“The empirical end to the Galtonian project is more whimper than bang.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbear...
“The empirical end to the Galtonian project is more whimper than bang.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-unbear...
The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer is Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia.
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“I still insist that unrealistic exaggeration of genetic effects has negative consequences…
The most imp of these consequences is that over-enthusiastic “optimism” about genetic effects encourages the biologization of things that are not fundamentally biological.”
The most imp of these consequences is that over-enthusiastic “optimism” about genetic effects encourages the biologization of things that are not fundamentally biological.”
Psychiatry and psychotherapy do not require singular diagnostic labels, or specific mental illnesses each with its own name to be
-justified
-legitimate
-valuable parts of the field of medicine
-able to answer ethical questions about what to treat and not treat
Discuss.
-justified
-legitimate
-valuable parts of the field of medicine
-able to answer ethical questions about what to treat and not treat
Discuss.
January 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Psychiatry and psychotherapy do not require singular diagnostic labels, or specific mental illnesses each with its own name to be
-justified
-legitimate
-valuable parts of the field of medicine
-able to answer ethical questions about what to treat and not treat
Discuss.
-justified
-legitimate
-valuable parts of the field of medicine
-able to answer ethical questions about what to treat and not treat
Discuss.
It seems like the anti-psychiatry people stayed on the other app and didn’t come here. Is that right?
January 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
It seems like the anti-psychiatry people stayed on the other app and didn’t come here. Is that right?
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Philosophers like Justin Garson post on twitter like they raw dog unpasteurised milk to fix their gut biome. Sometimes philosophy done entirely from the armchair makes you weird
July 12, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Philosophers like Justin Garson post on twitter like they raw dog unpasteurised milk to fix their gut biome. Sometimes philosophy done entirely from the armchair makes you weird
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Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
British journalists and editors, this is for you
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...
One thing that I think is very important in the study of psychopathology is a proper understanding of dispositions and how the “ceteris paribus” clause in describing dispositions can be extremely misleading.
Suppose someone says “This liquid is poisonous, ie it has the disposition to kill.”
Suppose someone says “This liquid is poisonous, ie it has the disposition to kill.”
January 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
One thing that I think is very important in the study of psychopathology is a proper understanding of dispositions and how the “ceteris paribus” clause in describing dispositions can be extremely misleading.
Suppose someone says “This liquid is poisonous, ie it has the disposition to kill.”
Suppose someone says “This liquid is poisonous, ie it has the disposition to kill.”
I want to explain this in more detail cause I’m overstating it, but my take:
1. Many Researchers: What is real are these symptoms that we can measure, eg this score when we ask you about “how often you feel empty” etc. Personality is sort of abstract, our descriptions of it constructs.
1. Many Researchers: What is real are these symptoms that we can measure, eg this score when we ask you about “how often you feel empty” etc. Personality is sort of abstract, our descriptions of it constructs.
“the goal of dimensional approaches [to understanding personality] such as the AMPD is to be able to capture the nuances of a specific patient’s personality, obviating the need for a proliferation of categories that fail to recognize the uniqueness of an individual... 1/3
The Dimensional Turn in Psychopathology: Q&A with Robert F. Krueger
“Everything we try as a field ends up illustrating how murky and complex the origins of psychopathology tend to be.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-dimens...
“Everything we try as a field ends up illustrating how murky and complex the origins of psychopathology tend to be.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-dimens...
January 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I want to explain this in more detail cause I’m overstating it, but my take:
1. Many Researchers: What is real are these symptoms that we can measure, eg this score when we ask you about “how often you feel empty” etc. Personality is sort of abstract, our descriptions of it constructs.
1. Many Researchers: What is real are these symptoms that we can measure, eg this score when we ask you about “how often you feel empty” etc. Personality is sort of abstract, our descriptions of it constructs.