Showing posts with label mental classification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental classification. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Paranoia strikes deep?



There is a fascinating article today in the Las Vegas Sun, of all places, on something many of you already suspected: Paranoia is on the rise. This short article is well-worth the read.




"We are now starting to discover that madness is human and that we need to look at normal people to understand it," said Dr. Jim van Os, a professor of psychiatry at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
---o0o---

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Idiot, moron, imbecile: an old illustration


click illustration to enlarge

No, I am not talking about a specific person. . . this is an illustration from a textbook, outling the now apparently verboten system of categorzing people's mental acuity.
---o0o---