I think in order to be a good psychiatrist you need to understand what your patient is “babbling” about. But you also need to be able to challenge their understanding and conclusions about the world so they engage with the problem in a healthy manner. Like if the guy is worried how AI is making the internet and world more dead then maybe don’t go to the AI to be understood.
@zbyte64@awful.systems
To be honest, I can’t say much about psychiatry because I’m less of a “psychiatrist” and more of a “psychiatric patient”, and that’s one of the main reasons why I got to “make some sense” of someone who was deeemed “crazy”.
I’m just a computer guy myself (a developer and an ungraduated compsci person, or, as people would label, a “techbro”), so I’m someone who can understand machines better than I can understand other humans, because I’ve been dealing with machines for more than two decades in a daily basis… Still I’m (unfortunately) a human myself, so I also deal with such a pesky human in a daily basis as well: myself. And this relationship with this human comes with all the bells and whistles a human possess, such as a limbic system relentlessly firing up neurotransmitters and provoking the ineffable and unutterable phenomena known as “emotions” and “memories”.
Then, there’s this curious phenomenon where I can sort of make sense of a human’s verbal output whenever that output is detached from one’s own biological condition, when a person says things beyond and despite their own physical existence, targeting highly abstract and metaphysical concepts instead of the mere mundanity.
If I can recall correctly, psychiatrists would classify this as a condition of “depersonalization” and “derealization”… To me, however, it can resonate epistemologically and/or ontologically and/or philosophically and/or spiritually, because these expressions seem like unfiltered expressions of the ineffable… and, well, I’m not a psychiatrist to throw DSM classifications and psychiatric labels into someone else’s conditions.
I think in order to be a good psychiatrist you need to understand what your patient is “babbling” about. But you also need to be able to challenge their understanding and conclusions about the world so they engage with the problem in a healthy manner. Like if the guy is worried how AI is making the internet and world more dead then maybe don’t go to the AI to be understood.
@zbyte64@awful.systems
To be honest, I can’t say much about psychiatry because I’m less of a “psychiatrist” and more of a “psychiatric patient”, and that’s one of the main reasons why I got to “make some sense” of someone who was deeemed “crazy”.
I’m just a computer guy myself (a developer and an ungraduated compsci person, or, as people would label, a “techbro”), so I’m someone who can understand machines better than I can understand other humans, because I’ve been dealing with machines for more than two decades in a daily basis… Still I’m (unfortunately) a human myself, so I also deal with such a pesky human in a daily basis as well: myself. And this relationship with this human comes with all the bells and whistles a human possess, such as a limbic system relentlessly firing up neurotransmitters and provoking the ineffable and unutterable phenomena known as “emotions” and “memories”.
Then, there’s this curious phenomenon where I can sort of make sense of a human’s verbal output whenever that output is detached from one’s own biological condition, when a person says things beyond and despite their own physical existence, targeting highly abstract and metaphysical concepts instead of the mere mundanity.
If I can recall correctly, psychiatrists would classify this as a condition of “depersonalization” and “derealization”… To me, however, it can resonate epistemologically and/or ontologically and/or philosophically and/or spiritually, because these expressions seem like unfiltered expressions of the ineffable… and, well, I’m not a psychiatrist to throw DSM classifications and psychiatric labels into someone else’s conditions.