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A sneak peek has been uploaded to Patreon for part 2 of Doctors under Hitler, I will also make the sneak peek link only for YouTube tonight so that locals subscribers can see the video.
Fortunately, psychiatry has begun moving towards a bio-psycho-social approach (see Dr George Engel) and Clinical Psychology have begun to adopt Positive Clinical Psychology to better account for context (right-hemispheric thinking). Nonetheless, the necessity of accounting for self-deception is something only the existentialists (and their corresponding clinicians) have really tackled. Although to some degree so did some of the psychoanalysts like Freud and Jung.
An example of the sort of self-deception classic medical perspective rarely accounts for is what I call ‘Immoral habitual deception’. What I mean by this is that when we first do something we feel deeply to be wrong, or that there is something not morally right about it at least, but by the second or third or fourth time we lose touch with that feeling of immorality in our action. We deceive our self by normalizing our immoral behaviour. Let me give you an example: two men are talking degradingly about women in a sexual or misogynistic manner, at...
If you did not see one our first videos 'Deception and lies in compterorary times' it is a playful video on some modern and postmodern cultural critiques.
https://youtu.be/dYVJOYkLBz4?si=6216y234qPAbQn70
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A full version of this is here in essay form: Thoughts appreciated.
What centuries of deceit looks like
Have we not grown colder despite our replacement of candles and fireplaces with the science of gas and electricity? Have we not grown less empathic despite our global connectedness? How could we be satisfied with the untruthfulness of present-day humanity?
Hitherto we had never masked out our nature so such an extent
Thus you must not have heard the news
“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself—in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity—is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost ...
