Year: 2021
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You Are Not Your Diagnosis
Analytic intelligence, while useful for purposes of manipulation and operationality, often ends up mistaking the abstract object for the concrete in a “fallacy of misplaced concreteness” (Whitehead). Out of habit or cognitive bias, we tend to believe that the parts, units, or functions that we distinguish and name are truly there in the real world, like…
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Dr Peter Raabe joins the Philosophical Health International Movement
Read more about the Philosophical Health Movement here and consider joining is you are working in philosophical health. Free of charge and obligation: this is intended to be an infinite scroll down page, a manifesto of all the practitioners who believe philosophy can heal this world.
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Change of Times: From Duel (death-by-other) to Monoel (death-by-self-absorption)
CHANGE OF TIMES: FROM DUEL (DEATH-BY-OTHER) TO MONOEL (DEATH-BY-SELF-ABSORPTION)
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New Foucault book on Philosophical Health
Announcing the publication today of a new book by Michel Foucault, a previously unpublished manuscript edited by Elisabetta Basso on Binswanger and the philosophical mental health approach called daseinsanalysis. It’s an early work that shows Foucault’s early interest for another way in mental health, more attuned with the philosophical care of the non-automated self. I…
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How to Become a Philosopher
Behind the apparent randomness of the world, its chaos-like features, the plethora of anecdotal facts, and the variety of our inner moods and outer fortunes, the human mind has been tempted throughout history to believe in a universal logic, a meaningful movement of the world-spirit towards the accomplishment of a grander masterplan. This higher cosmological…
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Summer Dive (Poem)
O daring life! Life resurrected, from fields of attunement to drops of conspicuity, Anonymous shelters for the hungry and lone, Storms of whispers, waves of now, songs of vacuity, And the essence of love exhilarated to the bone In sparkling explosions of liquid liberation, Exuding the net of our regeneration… We sing for the despaired,…
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Beyond Physical and Psychological Health: Philosophical Health
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