Posted by IntendedMispelling on November 17, 2009, at 8:15:41
In reply to radical psychotherapy and the schizoid condition, posted by IntendedMispelling on November 15, 2009, at 0:35:09
Tonight AMC will air a remake of an episode of the The Prisoner called The Schizoid Man. An allegory of man's struggle to maintain identity in an increasing technological age.
When I was an infant my mother would sit me down and have me watch television so that I could "learn english." The effect this style of parenting is having on the modern population is becoming more and more apparent with the increasing number of people who are diagnosed with Aspergers and Schizophrenia.
Only a few weeks ago the Walt Disney Company began offering complete free refunds for its Baby Einstein line of products after a study concluded it impedes language development.
From Wikipedia:
"The study's authors, Drs. Frederick Zimmerman, Dimitri Christakis, and Andrew Meltzoff, concluded that, among infants aged 8 to 16 months, exposure to "baby DVDs/videos" such as Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby was strongly associated with lower scores on a standard language development test." Approximately a third of new mothers use baby Einstein.And then there is the popularity of the band Radiohead. The title of which alludes to the shizoid alienation produced by our media saturated and increasing impersonal loveless society.
Schizoid alienation is pop culture.
The mechanistic cognitive behavioral approach to therapy can not possibly address the schizoid because it is itself a symptom of the schizoid condition.
My (expirable) email is srumervoot@garrifulio.mailexpire.com
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