Leo D.M.J. Aurini - June 30, 2016


Mental Illness, Etiology, and Criminalizing Thought Pt. 1


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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the link between neurological brain imaging, psychiatric medicine, morality, mental illness and crime, and how they are all interrelated. This is a fascinating episode that requires a lot of unpacking.

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00:00:28.000 So this is one of those
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00:00:34.000 because we're going to be talking about
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00:00:48.000 and it starts with this guy called Daniel
00:00:50.000 Amen. Now Amen is
00:00:52.000 a psychiatrist
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00:00:56.000 neurological brain maps
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00:01:00.000 damage causing
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00:01:06.000 there's a lot of critics saying he doesn't have
00:01:08.000 enough data just yet
00:01:10.000 but it seems quite promising
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00:01:16.000 physical damage
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00:01:30.000 what they have is brain damage
00:01:32.000 Now, what is brain damage?
00:01:34.000 You know, obviously getting a
00:01:36.000 rock to the head is brain damage
00:01:38.000 but it's more than just that
00:01:40.000 if you've served in the military
00:01:42.000 the concussive force of firing
00:01:44.000 heavyweight rounds
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00:01:48.000 of the brain
00:01:50.000 then there's just the daily stress
00:01:52.000 of living
00:01:54.000 if you're in a high stress environment
00:01:56.000 if you're doing a lot of caffeine
00:01:58.000 a lot of nicotine
00:02:00.000 that is going to wear down your brain over time
00:02:02.000 you have other stuff
00:02:04.000 temporary brain damage induced by drugs
00:02:06.000 alcohol, marijuana
00:02:08.000 this is going to cause your brain to short circuit
00:02:12.000 and you know, thinking about all of this
00:02:14.000 the way that drugs cause this temporary brain damage
00:02:18.000 I think this is a
00:02:20.000 actually winds up being a very interesting critique
00:02:22.000 of psychiatry as a whole
00:02:26.000 Now, what does a man do
00:02:28.000 to fix the brain damage with his patients?
00:02:30.000 Well, most of what he does
00:02:32.000 focuses on having a good diet
00:02:34.000 on supplying the body
00:02:36.000 with the resources it needs
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00:02:40.000 and this has
00:02:42.000 he's supposedly had success
00:02:44.000 with young people with brain tumors
00:02:46.000 but also people suffering Alzheimer's
00:02:48.000 that if you are
00:02:50.000 if you're experiencing this degradation
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00:02:54.000 what you need
00:02:56.000 is a diet that provides
00:02:58.000 the stuff that your brain needs to live
00:03:00.000 you know, fish oil
00:03:02.000 having lots of fruits and vegetables
00:03:04.000 etc. as opposed to
00:03:06.000 corn syrup and processed foods
00:03:08.000 allowing the brain to fix itself
00:03:12.000 now
00:03:14.000 what do we see psychiatry doing?
00:03:18.000 Psychiatry develops
00:03:20.000 all of these psychoactive
00:03:22.000 pharmaceuticals
00:03:24.000 right?
00:03:26.000 but these drugs are essentially doing
00:03:28.000 the exact same thing as alcohol
00:03:30.000 is
00:03:34.000 you take drugs
00:03:36.000 to reduce your anxiety
00:03:38.000 to numb you
00:03:40.000 to help you check out
00:03:42.000 and be less aware
00:03:44.000 less cognizant of the universe
00:03:46.000 the psychiatric solution to depression
00:03:48.000 is to give you something
00:03:50.000 that just zonks you out 0.75
00:03:52.000 and turns you into a zombie
00:03:54.000 because zombies aren't depressed
00:03:56.000 and if any of this stuff
00:03:58.000 if these were cures
00:04:00.000 okay, if these were cures
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00:04:04.000 that would help you heal yourself
00:04:06.000 what we would expect to see
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00:04:10.000 on medication
00:04:12.000 as the medication got better
00:04:13.000 it would
00:04:14.000 fix the chemical imbalance
00:04:16.000 which you know
00:04:17.000 doesn't exist
00:04:18.000 or it would
00:04:20.000 it would help them get through
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00:04:22.000 instead what we're seeing
00:04:25.000 is more and more people
00:04:27.000 going on to these psychiatric meds
00:04:29.000 numbing themselves
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00:04:34.000 the original depression
00:04:35.000 the original anxiety
00:04:37.000 whatever it is
00:04:38.000 is never actually dealt with
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00:04:41.000 it's a lifelong non-cure
00:04:45.000 whereas what a man is doing
00:04:48.000 trying to provide the brain
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00:04:51.000 that
00:04:53.000 that can help
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00:04:57.000 if you have a hangover
00:04:58.000 because you drank too much
00:05:00.000 yeah an aspirin
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00:05:03.000 what will help you
00:05:05.000 is water
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00:05:08.000 and etc
00:05:10.000 that's what will help you
00:05:12.000 get rid of the hangover
00:05:13.000 is providing your body
00:05:14.000 the stuff it needs
00:05:19.000 now this request came in
00:05:20.000 specifically addressing
00:05:22.000 is this going to be the future
00:05:24.000 of criminal analysis
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00:05:27.000 because somebody
00:05:28.000 look we scanned his brain
00:05:29.000 we have this scientific proof 1.00
00:05:31.000 that they're mentally ill 0.99
00:05:33.000 so now we're going to lock them up 0.98
00:05:34.000 even though they haven't
00:05:35.000 committed a crime
00:05:36.000 something straight out of that
00:05:37.000 series Psycho Pass
00:05:41.000 is this the new future
00:05:42.000 well
00:05:45.000 brother we're already living
00:05:46.000 in that time
00:05:50.000 now here's the thing
00:05:51.000 what a man is doing
00:05:52.000 he says he has good correlations
00:05:54.000 that he can identify
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00:05:58.000 on his word
00:06:00.000 what he's doing
00:06:03.000 is not defining
00:06:04.000 the mental illness
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00:06:07.000 okay he's saying like
00:06:08.000 look there's these parts
00:06:09.000 of your brain
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00:06:11.000 let's get those operating
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00:06:13.000 you know one of the pistons
00:06:14.000 in your vehicle isn't firing
00:06:15.000 let's get all of them firing 0.95
00:06:16.000 but he's not saying 0.99
00:06:18.000 what that mental illness is 0.74
00:06:21.000 you know
00:06:22.000 you have these symptoms
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00:06:24.000 because you have symptoms
00:06:25.000 we're going to scan you
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00:06:27.000 this is the physical problem
00:06:28.000 right here
00:06:29.000 so I like what he's doing
00:06:32.000 whereas
00:06:33.000 what is psychology doing
00:06:35.000 what has it been doing
00:06:36.000 for the past
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00:06:41.000 see what psychology does
00:06:43.000 is they
00:06:44.000 they come up with a bunch of
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00:06:56.000 seven of the twelve
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00:07:00.000 all of which is
00:07:01.000 completely subjective
00:07:03.000 it's completely
00:07:05.000 arbitrary
00:07:06.000 the way they make it up
00:07:08.000 and if you actually start
00:07:09.000 looking into the whole thing
00:07:10.000 supposedly
00:07:11.000 they say
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00:07:13.000 80% of researchers
00:07:14.000 all agree
00:07:15.000 that this is the illness
00:07:17.000 well first of all
00:07:18.000 that's not actually the case
00:07:19.000 those numbers have been
00:07:20.000 juked around
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00:07:22.000 massaged
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00:07:24.000 to create
00:07:25.000 this illusion
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00:07:27.000 method for defining
00:07:28.000 mental illness
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00:07:31.000 to get more respect
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00:07:33.000 to be covered
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