Very interesting talk. That being said, all of these interesting research findings do not really apply to the scope and practice of psychiatry. The function of psychiatry very much remains as an extra-judicial mechanism of social control, wherein individuals failing to conform to certain societal standards are labeled as "mentally ill" and having "anosognosia" and "poor insight and judgment" if they disagree with the labels they are assigned. The "heart" of psychiatry is involuntary hospitalization and forced drugging to control individuals deemed socially inconvenient. Psychiatry is using psychotropic substances to exert behavioral control -- hence why people from underprivileged backgrounds are most likely to be labeled "severely mentally ill" and subjected to involuntary treatment. What the speaker is talking about is more properly called "brain hacking". When matters like the gut-brain connection, epigenetic changes, and the influence of the environment in shaping everything from personality, to mood, to the neural networks in the brain are discussed, we firmly step outside the realm of psychiatry and enter the field of neuroscience. And when the speaker rejects mental illnesses in their current forms, believing that environmental factors can have a profound impact on what an individual experiences, he again moves away from psychiatry. Psychiatry is the simple matter of tying down an annoying "lunatic" in four-point restrains, forcibly drugging them with IM haloperidol, electronically signing off on that restrain order without ever having seen the patient, and walking away -- this is how psychiatry is routinely practiced, involving nothing more and nothing else. When the speaker starts to talk about philosophy, neuroscience, artificial neural networks, and improving human potential, he is no longer doing psychiatry and should start calling himself anything else other than a psychiatrist.
Very interesting talk. That being said, all of these interesting research findings do not really apply to the scope and practice of psychiatry. The function of psychiatry very much remains as an extra-judicial mechanism of social control, wherein individuals failing to conform to certain societal standards are labeled as "mentally ill" and having "anosognosia" and "poor insight and judgment" if they disagree with the labels they are assigned. The "heart" of psychiatry is involuntary hospitalization and forced drugging to control individuals deemed socially inconvenient. Psychiatry is using psychotropic substances to exert behavioral control -- hence why people from underprivileged backgrounds are most likely to be labeled "severely mentally ill" and subjected to involuntary treatment.
What the speaker is talking about is more properly called "brain hacking". When matters like the gut-brain connection, epigenetic changes, and the influence of the environment in shaping everything from personality, to mood, to the neural networks in the brain are discussed, we firmly step outside the realm of psychiatry and enter the field of neuroscience. And when the speaker rejects mental illnesses in their current forms, believing that environmental factors can have a profound impact on what an individual experiences, he again moves away from psychiatry. Psychiatry is the simple matter of tying down an annoying "lunatic" in four-point restrains, forcibly drugging them with IM haloperidol, electronically signing off on that restrain order without ever having seen the patient, and walking away -- this is how psychiatry is routinely practiced, involving nothing more and nothing else. When the speaker starts to talk about philosophy, neuroscience, artificial neural networks, and improving human potential, he is no longer doing psychiatry and should start calling himself anything else other than a psychiatrist.
حتى الترجمه غير متوفرة ..للاسف.،
المحاضر عربي وأكثر الحاضرين عرب ليش يتحدث بالغة انكليزية
تحدث العربية !
"I'll be speaking in English" is a disappointing start, for an event claims to be for the Arabian World.
He answers the audience questions in Arabic in the second half of his talk.