mental health
A Final Paper, or, A Generic Experiment: Epilogue, or ...
Submitted by Jessy on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 1:14am.Epilogue, or, whatever you call it when a smart mentally-ill student who has issues with authority and with deadlines, and who is fed up with dragging zhirself along like this, totally cops out and doesn’t put nearly as much work into zhir final paper as everyone else in the class, because zhe’s pretty sure zhe can get away with it with this professor (just don’t tell zhir dean), but wants to justify zhir brattiness somehow (and how distracting were those third-gender pronouns I made up for myself?).
A Final Paper, or, A Generic Experiment [version 3]
Submitted by Jessy on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 1:13am.[this space represents the traditional academic paper which I am fully capable of writing, but which I simply could not be bothered to do.]
A Final Paper, or, A Generic Experiment [version 2]
Submitted by Jessy on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 1:12am.Spent a day trapped in my own head, relieved by
one brief phone conversation, and no writing. It is extraordinarily difficult
to care about tactics in academic writing, when one is so utterly
self-centered. I’m in some kind of waiting room, metaphorically speaking, and
only a very narrow slice of the rest of the world exists to me. Audience, what
audience? The writer is alive and kicking (and crying, and going for walks at 3
am, and at 6 am, and spending whole days getting nothing accomplished, and
playing with hot wax, and setting up a printer, and getting to the grocery
store ten minutes before it closes, and fooling around with the Tarot, and
A Final Paper, or, A Generic Experiment [version 1]
Submitted by Jessy on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 1:10am.
May 21, 2008
(The last line makes me laugh. No, no, don’t skip ahead. But speaking of genres. And if you don’t think it’s funny, it’s because of all the things you don’t know.)
Creativity, Brain, Indeterminacy
Creativity, the Mind, and the Brain:
From Van Gogh to Indeterminacy and Beyond
Geetanjali Vaidya
December 2007
This paper was prepared as a senior thesis in
biology at Bryn Mawr College, and is made available to encourage
continuing explorations of the nature and significance of of
creativity. Comments and continuing discussion are welcome in the on-line forum at the end of this paper.
Existence with the Volume Down
Submitted by heather on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:06pm.
The Incident:
On a Friday afternoon, not too long ago, I experienced a new level of perception. This occurred during an episode of nausea and acute pain that the doctor wrote off as “a bad reaction to an antibiotic”. It was the neurological symptoms I experienced during that time which generated a valuable experience:
Book Commentary on Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
Submitted by merry2e on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 10:36am.“Without rebirth and resurrections, humanity loses its heroes and loses its capacity for transformation. In order to gain life, the monomythic lesson goes, we must first lose it” (146). ~Michael Paul Mason
The Implications of a Theory of Mind-Body Unity for Doctor-Patient Relations in Medicine
Submitted by Molly Pieri on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 8:20am.
As
the science of neurobiology progresses and our knowledge of the nervous system
and its functions becomes more complete, it grows increasingly less justifiable
to segregate a patient’s mind and body as two separate entities. Continually
medical journals are publishing are a growing number of articles documenting a
correlation between patients’ psychiatric, emotional wellness and the health of
their physical persons. With such amassing evidence, it seems necessary for
there to be a change in the way medicine is practiced. As science comes to more
fully grasp the role that a person’s psyche plays in the healing process,
medical professionals must adjust the way they practice medicine, as patients
The Tale of a Writer's Overactive "I" Function
Submitted by merry2e on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 11:27pm.A Writer’s Tale of the Overactive “I” Function
