Friday, January 10, 2014

Theories of Depression: Explanations or Justifications?

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Paper presented at Thinking Critically about Psychology: Gender, Power and Clinical Practice , Umeå University, 31st May 2013. I In janu...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

On the ontology of depression

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What is depression? The answer you usually get from professionals in the mental health business is that depression is what you have if you m...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Stoned rats and post-traumatic stress disorder

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Strange things pass as ‘psychological research’ these days. According to the Times of India , Irit Akirav  and Eti Ganon-Elazar conducted a...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Mainstream psychology

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This entry is ridicously long. It started out as a short clarifying note on ‘mainstream psychology’, but grew to an entire chapter. My apolo...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

The insane are not ‘us’: on normality, psychiatric diagnoses and Norwegian terrorism

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After the Oslo bomb and Utøya massacre there is a strong demand of declaring the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, mentally disturbed. Y...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The 14th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology

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Faculty of Education, Aristotle University Two weeks ago, I attended the 14th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theor...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Theoretical psychology and the subject matter of psychology

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This blog, named Theoretical Psychology , is the English counterpart of my swedish blog Psykologidoktoranden (“The Psychology PhD Student”)...