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Leon Festinger was a social psychologist most known for articulating cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory in modern clinical psychology.
James Morris is a professor at the University of Virginia’s Psychology Department. https://drjamesmorris.com/ “Dr James Morris has over 20 years experience working in the alcohol and addiction field. As an author of new UK clinical guidelines for alcohol treatment, he is at the forefront of evidence-based approaches to changing drinking behaviours… He is host of The alcohol “problem” podcast…
Concept Creep and the Mental Health Crisis “I argue that rising attention to harm, coupled with the pervasive influence of the mental health industry, has led to concepts of mental health and illness becoming increasingly expansive. This process of “concept creep” promotes the adoption of diagnostic identities and a tendency to over-pathologize experience and behavior. These trends not only…
Professor of Psychiatry at Linkoping University at Sweden. The Thirteenth Step: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science (2015) Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience (2021) “The view that substance addiction is a brain disease, although widely accepted in the neuroscience community, has become subject to acerbic criticism in recent years. These…
Alan Leshner is a psychologist who served as directory of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) as well as the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters (1997) “Scientific advances over the past 20 years have shown that drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain… Recognizing…
Nancy Andreason authored The Broken Brain (1984).
Edward Thorndike was a psychological researcher and
James McKeen Cattell holds the honorable distinction of being the first psychology professor in the United States. He earned his PhD in Germany under Willhem Wundt, who was the first to distinguish psychology from biology and philosophy while calling himself a psychologist. Together, Wundt and Cattell explored the study of intelligence through psychometrics, though their general worldviews were…
Willhelm Wundt was a German professor who was the first to distinguish psychology from philosophy and biology, call himself a psychologist, establish a formal laboratory for psychology, and start the first academic journal covering research in psychology. James McKeen Cattell, first American professor of psychology, 1895 President of the American Psychology Association
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Alan Leshner is a psychologist who served as directory of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) as well as the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters (1997) “Scientific advances over the past 20 years have shown that drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain… Recognizing…
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When Milton’s Satan falls from heaven, he ends in hell. And what does he say to reassure himself? ‘Here, at least, we shall be free.’ And that, I think, is the fate of the old-fashioned liberal. He’s going to be free, but he’s going to find himself in hell.
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Carl Hart signed a 2014 critique in Nature that considered it “myopic” to see addiction as just a brain malfunction when considering the disease model.
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James McKeen Cattell holds the honorable distinction of being the first psychology professor in the United States. He earned his PhD in Germany under Willhem Wundt, who was the first to distinguish psychology from biology and philosophy while calling himself a psychologist. Together, Wundt and Cattell explored the study of intelligence through psychometrics, though their general worldviews were…
James Morris is a professor at the University of Virginia’s Psychology Department. https://drjamesmorris.com/ “Dr James Morris has over 20 years experience working in the alcohol and addiction field. As an author of new UK clinical guidelines for alcohol treatment, he is at the forefront of evidence-based approaches to changing drinking behaviours… He is host of The alcohol “problem” podcast…
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Professor of Psychiatry at Linkoping University at Sweden. The Thirteenth Step: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science (2015) Addiction as a brain disease revised: why it still matters, and the need for consilience (2021) “The view that substance addiction is a brain disease, although widely accepted in the neuroscience community, has become subject to acerbic criticism in recent years. These…
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Nancy Andreason authored The Broken Brain (1984).
Concept Creep and the Mental Health Crisis “I argue that rising attention to harm, coupled with the pervasive influence of the mental health industry, has led to concepts of mental health and illness becoming increasingly expansive. This process of “concept creep” promotes the adoption of diagnostic identities and a tendency to over-pathologize experience and behavior. These trends not only…
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Volkow is the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky. I’m not shitting you even a little bit. She grew up in the house where he was assassinated with an icepick. Trotsky’s granddaughter now heads an organization under the United States federal government that funds more than 85% of the world’s research of the health consequences of drug abuse and addiction. It’s a small world, isn’t it?…
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Willhelm Wundt was a German professor who was the first to distinguish psychology from philosophy and biology, call himself a psychologist, establish a formal laboratory for psychology, and start the first academic journal covering research in psychology. James McKeen Cattell, first American professor of psychology, 1895 President of the American Psychology Association