Academy For Film and Psychiatry
This above mentioned website: Academy for Flm and Psychiatry is a website that wants to organize thoughts about the many ways that film and psychiatry intersect. You can discuss films, it already has some films discussed in relation to psychiatry. It also has some information on The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film.
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February 21, 2010 @ 2:30 am
Here’s something to stimulate your mind: A new psychological phenomenon has emerged. Cases are seen in the case of psychogenic autism (factitious disorders) where the persons either deliberately feign being autistic or they really believe they are autistic. Normally, you find this in people who have taken large amounts of LSD type drugs, combined with a severly abusive past, thus resulting in a very mixed presentation of whatever it is they feel will bring them the most attention and nurturing. Autism is popular today, so many mentally ill persons are adopting this persona. Mainly, because few, if any professionals or media will challenge such a diagnosis after even a less than competant professional duped by the complexity of the presentation—validates it. Ooops, than it becomes a save face issue, where neither the media or the professionals (not to forget publishers who publish stories that later turn out not to be autistic people) involved in the faulty diagnosis want to be embarrassed. This is unfortunate, as this does a great disservice to the autism community in general. Recall the Amanda Baggs controversy and the case of Ms. Donna Williams. You Tube has a recent video out discussing some of this I’ve mentioned. It is on you tube under the name, “autism spectrum seems out of control” and another video named, “autism epidemic out of control.” The video has most definately hit on something few outside psychoanalytical or psychiatric circles, have even noticed.
February 21, 2010 @ 12:25 pm
Thnx, will certainly have a look at the video. Kind regards Dr Shock