This opinion piece by Benjamin Y. Fong of the University of Chicago, recognises that while initiatives set up by governments and institutions to address the growing mental health endemic in society are admirable, they are attempting to do so from the traditional human-condition-avoiding, position, which is basically self-defeating: The real trouble with the Brain Initiative (of which President Obama announced an initial $100 million in funding) is...the instrumental approach...[such biological reduction is] intent on uncovering the organic “cause”...of mental problems ...rather than looking into psychosocial factors...By humbly claiming ignorance about the “causes” of mental problems...neuroscientists unconsciously repress all that we know about the alienating, unequal, and dissatisfying world in which we live and the harmful effects it has on the psyche, thus unwittingly foreclosing the ability to alleviate mental disorder’. Yes, as Fong says in his article, mechanistic science’s ‘synthetic’ focus on the ‘organic’ rather than the psychological’ nature of our problems can only end in denying humans ‘the possibility of self-transformation’. It is only the psychosis-addressing, human-condition-confronting position that Jeremy Griffith, founder of the World Transformation Movement, has taken that could hope to find, and now has found, the reconciling and human-race-transforming understanding of the human condition. bit.ly/1l5DNdQ #BrainInitiative #Neuroscience #mentalhealth #Obama #psychosocial #universityofchicago
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:20:00 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015