January 19

10:00 AM Today Freud is largely dismissed in western psychiatry.

He was was replaced with what i call "bottle psychiatrists" which comes from the little orange (in the US) bottles with prescription pills which is a glorious recognition of failure of any philosophy or generally science in the way too complex field of "psychiatry" still seen today as a collection of socially disconnecting disorders while it probably should be a mixture of advanced neurology and IT.

However, Freud had his major contribution to the field. Much of his work which derives from a vast clinical experience centered on empathy of which observations resulted in revealing the role of associations in memorizing (processes) and his major, forever contribution is the term "transference" which goes beyond the therapist-parent transference observed and documented by him today mostly downplayed probably because of its great strategic value in today's media wars.

10:30 Modern psychiatry started maybe with the introduction, before Freud, of the term schizophrenia, an attempt to conceptualize in one term a broad spectrum of symptoms which today it seems an obvious attempt to reconcile the continuing shift from a normal operating mind to a psychotic one a and back in the same patient.

Psychosis being an altered state of mind operating when protections within the brain try to disconnect it from immediate, extremely traumatic to the patient reality.

The problems begin when the patient can't recognized the psychotic trips, trying to "rationalize them" or integrate them into their lives and decision making processes, which may lead to need of isolation or institutionalization.

While the term itself is a very unhappy marriage of two Greek words which basically mean "split mind", that sounds bad in most languages, the diagnosis becoming a social stigma, the term itself is part of a naive early attempt to categorize mental diseases, though if not for lack of better ideas or advancements is still largely used and recognized today in mainstream in clinical diagnosis and treatment.

As with any vague concept used this time for diagnosing patients, it leaves wide open gates to abuse while modern "medications", discovered as stated above, by chance, do the job of psychosis in schizophrenia and that is partly disconnecting the patient from reality and/or sensorial input, though in a more "controlled" way.

However there may not be other way out for many patients, since their permanent psychological trauma arise from social and financial problems.

However it is way better now than in the past, when such patients were often mistreated and mutilated like performing lobotomies, while electric shock "therapy" (under anesthesia) is still being performed as "treatment".

12:16 PM Transference. Jesus and Buddha. X-ray radiations.