Comments on: Reverse Psychology http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: Alex http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-221455 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:46:31 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-221455 Also “Prohibido Suicidarse en Primavera” (http://www.amazon.com/Prohibido-suicidarse-primavera-Clasicos-Universales/dp/8475059074); translated as “Suicide Forbidden in the Spring”. An interesting play about a suicide clinic in the sense of the first one in this story. Watched the play twice: once with a very young cast and first time director that made it amusing and once with a more experienced team that made it utterly disturbing.

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]]> By: Noumenon72 http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-221411 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:35:21 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-221411 I thought the twist was going to be that the second psychologist was also a reverse reverse psychologist, since he kept getting the patient to do things he said not to.

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]]> By: Andrew M. Farrell http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220960 Wed, 22 Jul 2015 01:42:37 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220960 If I had an allergy like that one to latex or penicillin, I would get a warning label tattooed on both forearms.

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]]> By: Marc Whipple http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220837 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:57:26 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220837 Trauer is dead. And has been for some time. “It is a ghost that is speaking to you now.”

(The last line of that story is both hilarious and oddly sympathetic to me. :) )

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]]> By: Shenpen http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220821 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:07:27 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220821 It seems you only observed it in highly intelligent people. I saw both. Highly intelligent people did acid and talk days on about philosophical insights. Lower IQ people went to some rave, did acid and when I asked them what it was like “LOL we so wasted duuuude like total wasted LOL it was fun we had no idea who we are lol just wasted”.

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]]> By: Shenpen http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220819 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:00:09 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220819 As a Euro how could I even demand my government to provide the latest tech if I have no idea even what it is? When my dad got cancer, it looked modern enough – CT, MR scans, surgery, chemo.

Then it got worse, and nobody really knew why, it looked just like infections, but he could not eat, got about 1000 kcal in his bloodstream a day which should be enough when bedridden but got thinner and weaker every day, the made him swallow an ultrasound probe which they claimed is modern tech, found nothing, then he suddenly died, official reason was pneumonia but autopsy found metastasis in the stomach which the ultrasound did not find. RIP at 63, cigar smoker, moderate drinker, exercised, was fit, and had a really lot of stress, so a halfway unhealthy life which I expected to last about 70.

I sensed there is some incompetence going on here – this kind of a cancer patient should be able to saved.

But as we here have no idea what is the latest tech, if the doc says swallowing an ultrasound probe is, and does not find shit with it, how can we argue or demand better?

It doesn’t help that the latest tech is also usually invented in the US, or China, or Japan, or anywhere that is not so fucking decadent as the EU so this reduces the chance of EU citizens demanding it.

Shortly before he died I talked with the boss doc. He said he already spent several times the allowed budget on him but will try some new things. I asked how this budget is calculated. He said it is at every stage of the prognosis they recalculate the expect number of quality years left in ones life and have a budget per that.

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]]> By: Shenpen http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220818 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:50:52 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220818 I must say I did not understand the ending. I get it so far that Trauer was using rev. psy. OK. But what is this stuff with deceased and do not refer?

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]]> By: Leo http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220747 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:38:30 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220747 Good guess. They’re alive. Just not exactly able to hold a conversation about something other than “buy me booze”. Even if you’re the staunchest anti-ableist in the world and think that they don’t lose anything by being unable to live alone or restrain violent impulses, I personally have lost [ability to communicate with] them.

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]]> By: Loki http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220677 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:06:35 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220677 Your fiction is amazing and I want to buy several books of it please.

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]]> By: Marc Whipple http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/18/reverse-psychology/#comment-220609 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:42:09 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=3702#comment-220609 “If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”

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