[MD] Psychiatry/Psychology

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Mornin'!


Madness: When someone due to the composition of the SPOV reacts to Quality 
in a way that on Intellectual, Social and extended onto Biological levels of 
value, is deemed as having Low Quality.

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So as to keep this discussion on track I will put it to you that my mission 
here is not to question the extraordinary benefits that the continuing 
examination of biological patterns of value [medicine] gives us, but rather 
to point to the fact that in some cases a re-evaluation of the philosophy 
this enterprise rests on may be in order.

As has been said before the case of mental illness is a difficult one, 
both - I'll grant - because the brain is such a complex biological pattern, 
but also because one keeps returning to the mind/matter paradox. How does 
the mind and matter relate? Can an thought experience create changes in the 
matter of the brain? How? And yet again; what is thoughts? What is their 
nature? How do they relate to the electrical impulses activating different 
areas in the brain? What is it really that we are examining? Is it dependant 
of me and my interpretation or is it objectively? What is my subject? Me, 
and object with my subjective view, how can I investigate subjects as 
objects? Will what I say be true? To whom - in what way? In a subjective, or 
objective way?


My point has really always been this: Today you have many [not all!] 
diagnoses that are based on nothing (medically) other than observation of 
behaviour , and there is a continuing mystery around how the experiences had 
by someone can create changes in the matter of the brain (which one must 
presume is the reason for all mental illness). Instead, a MOQ based 
psychiatry would do exactly as good a job of finding abnormalities in the 
biological patterns (even though abnormalities is something that only exists 
as a concept on the intellectual and the social level) and going about that 
whole business. But the mind/matter paradox would be gone, forever, and 
mental illness would be explained something like:


When someone due to the composition of the SPOV reacts to Quality in a way 
that on Intellectual, Social and extended onto Biological levels of value, 
is deemed as having Low Quality.