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darius/dare carrasquillo's avatar

very nice!

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Shambhavi Sarasvati's avatar

Thanks, Dare xo

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Don Salmon's avatar

This is an excellent practice, inspired by your comment:

"Most of Freud’s categories of mental illness are not in use today. Could that mean that most of the categories we use today might also fall into disfavor?"

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In fact, if you go from the original DSM to the present, quite a surprisingly large number of categories are no longer in existence (in fact, the idea of a continuum of characteristics is being suggested as a replacement for the very notion of categorical illness).

Am I a man, a woman, a Jew, Greek, white, black, American or Indian (or both or neither or both and neither)? Well, I'll be dead one day - but is even that true?

I remember several decades ago, standing in line at the registrar waiting to get papers to begin my first semester of clinical psychology. Someone asked me - possibly seeing my ripped jeans - "Are you a music major?" I remember I was so proud to hear that - and remember how much I clung to that identity,as the boring image of "clinical psychologist" grew stronger and stronger.

How much we need categories and boundaries and labels - even as I set foot here and whisper, "But I'm an Aurobindonian...." wait, what?

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