Find out how your MIND works: It is magic

[@kibnob]

10:00 Have you ever tested this? I once tried blindly grabbing one of a set of multi-colored pencils and slowly drawing it in from the outside of my visual field. I was able to call the color fairly far out, past 45 degrees I would say. Repeated several times with maybe one error, if I recall correctly. I suspect there is a small amount of color-sensing capacity in the visual periphery which can be amplified and extrapolated by the brain's capacity for inference.

[@antonkucherov9215]

Thank you very much for your opinion! I want to say that many generalised anxiety sufferers(including me) are harmed very much by medical professionals because they view anxiety not as biological phenomenon but as 'wrong way of thinking'. Because of this they motivated to treat anxiety by changing 'thinking patterns'. I'm not saying that it doesn't work at all but for many patients it doesn't or produce very weak results. And in my opinion stubborness in promoting this way of treating anxiety is related to perceived 'greatness of Freud and his ideas'. I'm not touching depression because I personally suffer mainly from anxiety but it looks like situation with depression is the same.

[@psychotropicalresearch5653]

Read the full commentary on the website about Freud, and tell me what you think

[@antonkucherov9215]

@@psychotropicalresearch5653 I've just red both parts of your commentary about Freud. I always enjoy reading your texts, Dr.Gillman. Thank you for your thoughtful opinion. In my first comment I confused CBT('wrong way of thinking') and Freud's psychoanalysis. Now I see that psychoanalysis is pure fraud. CBT is proven to be helpful for some to some extent but the bad thing about CBT in my view is that it's abused by some doctors. For example in my opinion it's somewhat common for doctors to say that pharmacological treatment is masking of symptoms and psychotherapy addresses 'root causes' of depression and anxiety(Is there any scientific basis to say that psychotherapy addresses 'root causes'?) Then they conclude that if patient isn't successful with psychotherapy it is somehow his\her own fault.

[@psychotropicalresearch5653]

@@antonkucherov9215 it is an interesting and complex issue, too complex for me to write aa reply to, but do feel free to contact me via Skype if you wish to discuss it further

[@Megaghost_]

What is your perspective on future advances at understanding on how the mind works and interacts with reality and the usefulness of psychedelics as tools to conduct scientific research in this particular area? Do you expect their role to increase in the following decades?

[@psychotropicalresearch5653]

My old associate professor david Nutt has a research group which have published quite a lot relevant to this, have a look at it, but it is not particularly a focus of my interest

[@isaacroberts9089]

While I agree "recovered" repressed memories probably shouldn't be used in court, I think to call the whole concept of repressed memories nonsense is taking it too far. Theres clear evidence that memories can and do become repressed after trauma. To say that memories aren't repressed is almost like saying denial isn't a real psychological phenomenon.

[@psychotropicalresearch5653]

I suppose it depends on how you define repressed. Please reference your sources for clear evidence

[@CheechPPW]

As somebody who works for the Innocence Project and deals with many cases of wrongful convictions based on 'eye witness testimony,' the after the fact (usually 20+ years in prison) testing of dna debunks these 'memories' over and over again. But prosecutors love that 'a hah moment' when the victim points to the defendant and says, "I'll never forget that face." Sadly, too many juries believe theatrics over science.

[@Jimdimmer]

All I can think of listening to the opening music now is squid game ha

[@marcsheep]

Froid is the Hydroxychloroquine of psychology.