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I wonder if he could benefit from John Nash's accept and self-monitor approach to his own illness (strikingly similar to modern "ACT" therapy -- the meditative
by noam87 10y ago
I wonder if he could benefit from John Nash's accept and self-monitor approach to his own illness (strikingly similar to modern "ACT" therapy -- the meditative / mindful aspect of it might even jive with channeling his religious energy).
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/02/dont-use-john-nash-schizophrenia-a-beautiful-mind-promote-anti-psychotics https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/02/dont-use-joh...
> Whether the rumours are true, I can’t say, but what’s certain is that the truth of Nash’s experience, the way in which he struggled and ultimately succeeded in using the power of his rational mind to overcome his delusional thinking, was replaced with a straightforward lie. And whatever the rationale behind it, the wholly disingenuous use of Nash’s recovery to promote the use of anti-psychotics is to my mind unconscionable.
I think in the coming decades we'll come to see the excessive use of long-term psychiatric medication as barbaric as we now understand the use of therapeutic lobotomies in centuries past to be.