The Last Psychiatrist

Nietzsche and The Last Psychiatrist[1] would have a field day with this.

The article tells a story we love to believe: we may be poorer than the people the article talks about, but we are nicer, more empathic, better people. We love to believe it, because it makes us feel good about ourselves and provides a sense of justice: nobody has it all and if someone has more of one thing, he will have less of something else.

We also love to believe it because that way we don't have to consider a far more disturbing possibility: that these people aren't accidentally rich and their moral shortcomings aren't a result of their riches. That they are rich exactly because they are capable of the repugnant behavior described in the article. That our capitalist system is fallacious, can be gamed and is being gamed by these people. The system we are so infatuated with allows people that are undeserving, cheaters, to get the prize.

[1] http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/

The last psychatrist remarked [1] (I miss you), sadly, that women move there where men no longer are interested. With the fall of worth of [2] university education, the percentage of women increases.

[1] "when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? Why did they leave? I assume they aren't home with the kids, right?[...] if power seeking men aren't running for Senate, where did they go?" - https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/01/no_self-respecting_woman_would.html

[2] "Ernst & Young will no longer require new hires to have a degree" https://medium.com/signals-of-change/ernst-young-will-no-longer-require-new-hires-to-have-a-degree-1c811443e6d5

Sorry, but I am getting really tired of this form of discourse.

A million interests prevent you from doing a million things every day, but apparently it's only objectionable and worth remarking about when it's the government. And it's not even like I disagree with him -- yes we should allow assisted suicide. But boy oh boy is it hard not to notice that he wastes no time thinking about why things are this way, or which interests specifically may be preventing things from changing. Nope, it's just THE GOVERNMENT. Short circuit, do not pass go, no further critical thinking necessary.

"The Nanny State Didn't Show Up, You Hired It" http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/09/the_nanny_state_didnt_show_up.html

Clonazepam in 'standard' doses has a very different effect to clonazepam in microdose, ie 1/50th of the clinical dose.

You can see this discussed by Dr Catterral here https://epiphanyasd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/low-dose-clonazepam-for-autism-sfari.html?m=1 based on the research he did supported by the excellent Simon's foundation (hedge fund manager behind Renaissance)

Above a 50mcg dose, the inhibitory effects disappear.

A nice explanation of why this happens can be found here: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/01/treating_insomnia_with_less.html, really interesting readable read

Diagnose? No, probably not. Finding another label for a group of people in the Valley you are already predispositioned to hate isn't insight. And limiting it to a geographic region with such flimsy cultural boundaries smacks of projection.

Want a bold stand? The (now defunct) blog The Last Psychiatrist spent years arguing that narcissism was society wide and generations deep.

see 75% of the posts, but maybe these in particular (?) http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/a_generational_pathology.html
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/10/the_dumbest_generation_is_only.html

I had a long-standing interest in psychology, but haven't found a single book worth crap. Psychologists seem to obsess over fancy terminology and say-so stories with absolutely no conception of anything remotely like a controlled experiment. The one exception I've found is this blog:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/

Although most of his posts just complain about the lack of quality in medical and psychiatric publishing. That, and his definition of narcism (creating a persona and acting it out) is without doubt the most insightful model of the psyche I'd ever stumbled on.