K Yea Forums, need some help over here.
I'm a psychologist and long story short i have this patient who is very smart but also addicted to weed and in the verge of a psychosis.
Complete Narcissistic, only one in his family who doesn't suffer from
schizophrenia and shit.
Anyways, he reads a lot, things like The Iliad, The dairy of Ana Frank and Man's Search for Meaning and i need to get him books like those that also make him think about himself, understand his place in this world and made him feel vulnerable and human, i know Yea Forums has some fucked up individuals but also some pretty smart ones, so, can you guys recommend me any literature to show him?
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K Yea Forums, need some help over here
Levi Walker
Samuel Lopez
ignore the part about Yea Forums lol
James Richardson
Are you really a psychologist lol. Maybe recommend some Simone Weil books like
Blake Long
Lol, yes, why the question?
Jacob Ortiz
Fucking psychologists trying to mechanise spiritual problems with "studies" and "empiricism". Fuck off with your little diagnosis of narcisism. Treat them like men instead of "subjects". The fact that you go here for help shows you are totally unsuited to the profession. Read every book Jung ever wrote, then you may have some hope.
Dylan Wood
I'm still studying to be a psychatrist, but OP I would seriously recommended reading "Eastern Body Western Mind" if you read it with an open mind and take it with a grain of salt it'll help you immensely in your work.
As for your client I'd recommend "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker, that will give him a good slap of reality.
Oliver Collins
I'm not going to go in to detail but I can relate to your patient, I just had my last joint today as part of a 40-day sobriety challenge since I realized I'm smoking too much, and in addition to that, I did sort of experience a brief psychotic episode while under the influence earlier this year.
I haven't read this book myself yet, I only discovered it yesterday and it is the next book I'm reading, but it might be just the thing you are looking for, pic related. I found this book while looking for more info on the Self Authoring Suite offered by Jordan Peterson, and I believe it would be worthwhile to check it out as well even though I haven't signed up myself yet, but I can say is that the SAS was based on or influenced by this book.
Another thing you can look at could be Sybervision's "The Neuropsychology of Self-Discipline", but only as supplementation as it isn't aimed at mental health patients, but it is in the same veign as it does also have section similar in nature to self-authoring and in general helps understand one's own mind better.
Benjamin Hill
here again, just some added notes:
>understand his place in this world and made him feel vulnerable and human
While it is important for the patient to realize his vulnerability, if you really give a shit you will keep in mind that expressing vulnerability is poison for masculinity. I have to share some of the sentiments expressed in , but I do disagree with some others. It is important to remember that the DSM-V is descriptive, not prescriptive, and that there are political and economic factors that possibly skew objectivity, such as the somewhat dubious history of the classification and treatment of ADD/ADHD.
The whole modern thing where making yourself vulnerable in public is incredibly toxic and dangerous for men. The psychosis I spoke of was to a very large degree caused by making myself vulnerable and then having people take advantage of that. In addition, men just hate doing it, and for good reason, men have to strong to make up for the vulnerability in women and children, so encouraging weakness in them is only making them behave against their nature, which is ripe for the development of a disturbed sense of self.
This is why I advocate journaling, it is about the only place for a man to risk being vulnerable without having someone else screw them over.
And to be perfectly honest, if all psychologists/therapists/psychiatrists advocated journaling, many would have a hard time finding work, because a large chunk of "mental health" problem people face today can be solved with nothing more than a pen and paper.
Asher Mitchell
There's a difference between expressing vulnerability in a healthy way and making yourself vulnerable before others. In fact becoming more aware of your own vulnerabilities should ideally make you less vulnerable to having them exploited by other people. In the That said in the Homeric age crying and making a scene of your grievances was considered peak masculinity.
Aiden Lopez
How do you express vulnerability in a healthy way then?
>That said in the Homeric age crying and making a scene of your grievances was considered peak masculinity.
Source?