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THE PSYCHSURVIVALIST
by Julian Lev
I received my doctorate in Counseling Psychology, have been licensed in New Mexico since 1991, with almost all of my practice in Clinical Psych. I worked inpatient in State Hospitals, in outpatient programs for the severely disabled mentally ill and at what was commonly known as the Albuquerque Jail, formally the Bernalillo County Detention Center, where I supervised counselors. I provided assessments for the State in criminal forensic cases, performed mental health Disability assessment interviews and wrote formal clinical reports, and later reviewed others' reports for Social Security assessing for accuracy and proper determination. Altogether, this amounted to thousands of cases. My most important preparation for what became my unexpected career came from growing up in a dysfunctional family, where I decided at 17 years old that my best alternative was homelessness. That experience brought me into daily contact with drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally impaired, criminals
Episodes
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ANGER Pt 3: Mental Hospitals
This episode explores the intersection of anger, fear, incompetence, and institutional culture within state psychiatric hospitals. Drawing on experiences in both Washington and New Mexico, the author reflects on how professional training often failed to prepare the author or other professionals…
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ANGER-Pt 2: An Emotion, A Symptom, A Diagnosis, or A Way of Living
What is ANGER in reality? In this episode I discuss what anger is and what it isn't. By my account, it is a symptom of mental illness that is not sufficiently worthy of a diagnosis in the Diagnostic Manual because its expression is so diffuse as to be unanalyzable in terms that will explain the...
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ANGER: The Coin of the Realm+
This is an introduction to anger not as an expression of personality but in the context of our natural environment, living in a culture of anger that seems to be promoted as an acceptable, even desirable form of behavior., but that inevitably promotes more and increasing amounts of anger with no...
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AI vs. Lizard Brain
My response to #SamAltman, #RayKurzwell, #JensenHuang et al. How they are feeding the machine through their passive enabling of politicians' wars that we as individuals and as a society have no business supporting. How #AI and #AGI are rendering our concepts of #intelligence meaningless and how…
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The Lizard In Therapy
In which I discuss how to recognize the #limbicsystem in #psychotherapy and in life. While we are talking to a client about the things that concern them, there is a more basic, perhaps primitive mode of thinking that is ever present influencing that person's thoughts and actions just as much as…
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The Snake In The Grass: "Luke, I Am Your Personality"
#TheSnake is the origin of #Personality. We thought we knew what a #PersonalityDisorder is only to learn that we have never defined what personality is. We can discuss, even define symptoms related to personality disorders, but we can't say what it is in #HumanExperience that makes us the way we...
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The Snake's Lecture
This is episode 13 with the artwork included. Sorry for any inconvenience due to my error. How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is...
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The Snake's Lecture- version 2
How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is used to interpret how life events affect us as we go from passive observer, however...
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The Psychologist and The Snake: What Extreme Measures Tell Us About Our Thinking
An introduction to how the #rational prefers to overlook the part of us that is #irrational that may have still more influence on our actions. This is the #unconscious of #Freud and #Jung, but that is played out on a much larger stage, a part that influences all of our actions on an ongoing basis...
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Meet Your Lizard Brain: Psychology In Action
In which I present the notion that the #unconscious mind doesn't only express itself in our #dreams or when we are not fully aware or in control of what we are doing, but that it is an ongoing participant of our daily life and in our thinking. I argue that it is the basis for what we regard as...
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Diagnosing With Your Gut
Applying #instinct to #psychodiagnostics. Incorporating feelings in the process of diagnosis. Going beyond #ActiveListening Theory to a more indepth form of listening.
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What's For Dessert? Psychodiagnostics, anyone?
#Psychsurvivalist What is a #psychiatricdiagnosis anyway? Is it the name of a disease? Is it mental? Biological? Is it a negative character assessment? Or is it simply name calling, a way to ostracize a person with whom we find fault for any reason or for no reason at all because we just don't…
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The Psychology Of AI
Here is an #exploration of how AI interacts with humans at a #psychological level, how it influences us and how we influence it. Without a based understanding of ourselves and our machines, we could get lost n the pursuit of #psychsurvival, by getting overwhelmed by conflicting information from...
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AI: Man vs. Machine
This episode is a clinical comparison of AI functioning with human brain processes, how they are alike and how they differ. The unfortunate, creepy conclusion is that each is mirroring and replicating the other, reenforcing each other even in destructive ways.
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AI Inside and Outside the Box
I asked MSCoPilot/AI to create a self-portrait. Like any politician #AI deflected and said that it could create a portrait of me, of my thinking as a #Psychsurvivalist based on our discussions. The result was what it called "The Minimalist Logic Monolith & Institutional Mind". This was partly…
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On Assessing Military Veterans: Welcome To The Machine
In this episode, I describe my experience working with #Veterans, many who were combat veterans, in various stages of #PTSD. I touch on the interface between psychology, at least my background in it, and the VA system. as I recently experienced it. What it means to be a #Psychsurvivalist in a…
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Weaknesses vs. Dysfunction in the Mental Health System: Craziness vs. Crazy Making
How many psychologists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One. But the lightbulb has to want to be screwed. Change is only a small part of the equation. #Psychsurvival looks at thought and action in relations to the intended goal. Psychiatrists make the diagnoses, then write med orders with…
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A Discussion Of The Reiner Case-Are People Good?
#Forensicpsychology #Criminalpsychology #Psychsurvival #Psychiatricdiagnosis If the case of #NickReiner were to come across my desk, whether for my assessment of mental health considerations of a criminal case or for Social Security Disability, these are the questions I might ask and what I would...
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What Is Psychsurvivalism?
#psychology Here are some early essentials of #Psychsurvivalism, that is, separating truth from lies especially when dealing with #attorneys, #politicians, and among #uniformedofficials. I will also introduce the role of #morality in all our actions, what separates morality of the...
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Introduction To Psychsurvivalism
PsychSurvivalism: What you need to know about psychology to promote your and your family's survival and well-being. This podcast is about survival, specifically about psychological survival Most survival discussions are about weapons and methods for their use, They usually don't do as well in...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I received my doctorate in Counseling Psychology, have been licensed in New Mexico since 1991, with almost all of my practice in Clinical Psych. I worked inpatient in State Hospitals, in outpatient programs for the severely disabled mentally ill and at what was commonly known as the Albuquerque Jail, formally the Bernalillo County Detention Center, where I supervised counselors. I provided assessments for the State in criminal forensic cases, performed mental health Disability assessment interviews and wrote formal clinical reports, and later reviewed others' reports for Social Security assessing for accuracy and proper determination. Altogether, this amounted to thousands of cases.
My most important preparation for what became my unexpected career came from growing up in a dysfunctional family, where I decided at 17 years old that my best alternative was homelessness. That experience brought me into daily contact with drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally impaired, criminals
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Julian Lev
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