Intrapsychic humanism is a comprehensive general psychology and philosophy of mind that provides a new understanding of what it is to be human. Intrapsychic humanism is a nonderivative depth psychology that provides a unified and comprehensive theory of child development, psychopathology, and psychological treatment.
Brainchildren
Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came i...
Bicameral mentality
Bicameral mentality is a psychological hypothesis proposed by American psychologist Julian Jaynes. It suggests that early modern humans experienced thoughts and emotions not as originating within themselves but as commands from external "gods". According to the theory, the human mind once functioned with a division in which one part generated verbal instructions while a second part obeyed, forming a "bicameral mind". The eventual collapse of this mental structure is proposed to have led to the development of self-reflective consciousness in humans.
Links between the discovery of primates and anatomical comparisons with humans, the chain of being, our place in nature, and racism
- For more than a millennium humans knew more about the internal anatomy of a single monkey species than about that of their own bodies, because Galen used monkeys to infer human anatomy, in line wit...
Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"AI psychosis" is one of those terms that is incredibly useful and also almost certainly going to be deprecated in smart circles in short order because it is: a) useful; b) easily colloquialized to describe related phenomena; and c) adjacent to medical issues, and there's a group of people who feel very strongly any metaphor that implicates human health is intrinsically stigmatizing and must be replaced with an awkward, lengthy phrase that no one can remember and only insiders understand.
What neurodivergent people really think about the words used to describe them
Research reveals a clear preference for how neurodivergent adults want to be described, though not everyone agrees.
Two Realities: Native Modes, Learned Social Systems, and the Foundations of Autistic Cognition
Part 1: The Architecture Overview
Welcome: Mapping the Architecture of Autistic Cognition
Most people experience their minds as opaque.
Extended mind thesis
In philosophy of mind, the extended mind thesis says that the mind does not exclusively reside in the brain or even the body, but extends into the physical world.[1] The thesis proposes that some objects in the external environment can be part of a cognitive process and in that way function as extensions of the mind itself. Examples of such objects are written calculations, a diary, or a personal computer; in general, it concerns objects that store information. The hypothesis considers the mind to encompass every level of cognition, including the physical level.
Complementary Intelligence
In the following, I will try sketch a way of thinking about human intelligence and human nature through emphasizing its difference from the...
[Article] The complex lived experience of schizophrenia diagnosis: a thematic analysis of online forum posts
109K subscribers in the schizophrenia community. Welcome! This is a community meant for a discussion of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and related…
The Fixed-Coordinate Self-Anchor:
Understanding Autistic Identity as Immovable Observer
Alexithymia Reframed:
Understanding Autistic Emotional Architecture as Overlay, Not Fusion
Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Precision Psychiatry is a joint effort of the Columbia Department of Psychiatry at CUIMC and Columbia’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
AI* psychosis/therapy/companions/sycophancy
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Science flags paper that found AI chatbots help debunk conspiracy theories
We Need to Know More About How AI is Affecting Mental Health
Evaluation of Large Language Model Chatbot Responses to Psychotic Prompts
ChatGPT's free version is 26 times more likely to respond inappropriately to psychotic delusions
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
"AI Psychosis" in Context: How Conversation History Shapes LLM Responses to Delusional Beliefs