The psycho gene

The psycho gene.

the notion that genes play an important role in many diseases has been widely accepted, but many find it much harder to acknowledge a similar link with particular behaviour or even predisposition to crime. partly for this reason, the study of behavioural genetics remains a controversial topic, with disagreement not just over the science itself, but even more so about the therapeutic, societal a...

Psycho-practice, Psycho-theory and the Contrastive Case of Autism

ing the content from these accounts, without considering style or possible limitations in the writer’s insight, not only discards valuable data, but must lead to questionable conclusions. What are we to make, for example, of an autistic person’s comment that his mental processes or sensations are radically different from other people’s when he is likely to have severely impaired insight into ot...

The Case against Psycho-Analysis

There is a strong case to be made out against psycho-analysis, but Salter fails to make it. Even when he does present convincing instances of the contradictions within the theory, he spoils his case by his uncritical thinking and his sweeping condemnations. For example, he boldly and rashly rejects outright such concepts as projection and sublimation as being utterly useless. It would be more a...

The duality of psycho-physics

1. This conference on visual perception is in the land of Rene Descartes, who gave the first clear statement of the mind-body problem, and of Alain Aspect, the physicist whose recent experiments (to be discussed) cast doubt on an objective world that exists without being observed. It seems entirely appropriate to honor and connect the contributions of these two Frenchmen. 2. This particular ses...

Psycho-Pathology