Free MMPI Online
Take the MMPI for free online by following the linked files below (Minnesota Multi-Phasal Personality Index, a psych evaluation standard for any job that requires such “high risk” clearance, such...
More “Fear and Loathing in Iquitos”, and Ayahuasca/DMT Investigations (“Heaven Earth” and “DMT: The Spirit Molecule” full-length documentaries)
There has recently been a resurgence of discussion on one of the papers in my “academic work” section, here on Practice of Madness: “Fear and Loathing in Iquitos: Cynicism, Sincerity,...
Among Hungry Ghosts: Introduction
When did I get here, why did I come? I think it was the Same day that my dad told me that I “need a new life”. The Words slipped...
Street Sociology… Inside Canada’s Poorest Postal Code
I’m “in the field” right now, hence the lack of new posts. Over the next weeks you can expect… A humorous and disturbing look at the latest male pick-up move…ladies,...
A Call for a More Radical Neuroethics: The Case of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
A Call for a More Radical Neuroethics: The Case of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder The simultaneous occurrence of interest in academia – with the publishing of several new journals devoted to...
Revved-Up: Expeditions with Emily Martin
This is an essay I finally finished last week, on Emily Martin’s Bipolar Expeditions and The Woman in the Body. I’ve spoken a lot here about the first book, in...
Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath biographies, 2002
(Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath helped me survive that year of my graduation, 2002. Before I decided to become a sociologist, I planned to study literature and poetry.) 15 March...
on the illusion of choice, 2004
(oh dear…for the first sociological theory class I ever took, we had to write the usual paper about one theorist’s ideas. We were somewhat limited, having to pick a piece...
Fear and Loathing in Iquitos: Cynicism, Sincerity, and the Commercialization of Shamanism.
(hint: parts of this paper are written from a more “sincere” viewpoint than others ) Update, July 16, 2010: For another perspective on this check out this excellent blog, from...
She Must Be Crazy: Psychiatric Discourse, The “Personality Disorders”, and the Social Regulation of Subversive Women
She Must Be Crazy: Psychiatric Discourse, The “Personality Disorders”, and the Social Regulation of Deviant Women “I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night;...
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