Assistant Village Idiot

Grim's recent post Blindness put me in mind of things I wrote years ago.  This was the first post in what eventually became the series ...

I has already mentioned recently my great approval of including the peer-support model in schizophrenia treatment. Of course, this presumes...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect makes its appearance again , over at Futurepundit, which asks whether geniuses are equally susceptible to this ill...

Errol Morris, filmmaker and writer, seems to be one of those brilliant people who are often wrong, but inspired enough to break new ground....

Setting the stage... I was sent a Cynthia Boaz HuffPo column. You can see that her focus is peace and change, nonviolent studies, that sort...

One of my paranoid patients uncovered the site Are You Targeted in his searching the internet for proof that he is being harassed by Hollyw...

People are getting exercised this week because of Chomsky's comments in the magazine Guernica. (Wonderfully ironic title, recalling an...

Here is a speech given by Xavier Amador, who I mentioned before, on the subject of anosognosia. It is lengthy, but excellent. And for tho...

I spoke about anosognosia today for ten minutes or so with a colleague, with specific reference to our patients, then more tentatively, abou...

Uncle Dave sent along a recent rant purportedly by Jesse Ventura . I thought he was sending it as an example of how insane the right-wing a...

Charlie Sheen is an actor, right? I've heard his name for years, but I don't know if he's movies or TV. He must be pretty good...