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Josh Richardson
@schizosemia.bsky.social
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skitsau'si:mje / skit-so-SEM-EE-uh / writing on madness, mental illness, & culture • registered psychotherapist • i also take photos of things on my head #selfportraitwithblank
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · Jul 14
It was a privilege to interview @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social for @awaisaftab.bsky.social’s Psychiatry on the Margins, where we discuss the 19th C scientist Emil Du Bois-Raymond’s famous dictum regarding consciousness: “Ignoramus et ignorabimus“, or “we are ignorant and we will remain ignorant.”
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Emil du Bois-Reymond & Ignorance in Science: @Josh Richardson ‘s Interview with Gabriel Finkelstein “we are ignorant and we will remain ignorant” https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/emil-du-bois-rey...
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 2h
Dream: studying with Husserl. He’s very kind, accommodating, and hits me up for some money so he can travel.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 19h
Extraordinary interview. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Lessons from the Peace Process
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 2025-10-10 · 1h 1m
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 1d
Most excellent!
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 1d
How has philosophy net not alerted me to this earlier? Utilitarians? An choral math-rock ode to Jermey Bentham. Philososky rejoice. youtube.com/watch?v=Kn3A...
Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy (Official Music Video)
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah I dunno at one time I think the filmmakers were taking it as a competition esp. with the New French Extremity filmmakers. It’s normative maaaan, meaning the sense that it very much depends on what one judges as extreme. Hence genocide docs are certainly messed up.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah and my apologies for that. I really could not remember specifics, other than messed up. Probably the most recent edition of fucked up movie I watched was Girl with the Needle. On MUBI now. Very difficult . And based upon a true story. Perhaps making it even worse.
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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 2d
Also, to be fair to you, @schizosemia.bsky.social holds the title for most fucked up movie recommendation with Border.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 2d
Oh dude, I could probably recommend some worse ones honestly. But I wear the most fucked up movie recommendation badge with honour. ❤️❤️🥰
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d
MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d
Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 2d
Starting my day off with a talk from Wendy Brown on the exhaustion of liberal democracy: www.resetdoc.org/event/exhaus...
The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy: A Lecture by Wendy Brown
October 10th, 2025 | University of Milan – Bicocca, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1, 11:30 am CEST | 5:30 am EDT The relationship between capitalism and liberal democracy—once grounded in social and insti...
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 2d
Anyone out there have any recommendations for psychodynamic psychotherapy training? Online, workshops, anything to increase knowledge and competence! #TherapistsConnect
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 2d
Very sorry to hear that.
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🎃👻 SCAREd Smith 👻🎃 @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 3d
Great piece by @awaisaftab.bsky.social and Mohammed Rashed on this topic:

“Mental disorder and social deviance” in International Review of Psychiatry, 2021
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 3d
Its even the fact that new norms are sometimes generated out of these sorts of experiences. Whether or not that constitutes madness in whatever sense Sadler has in mind. Dunno. Must read more.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 3d
Interesting - thanks! That is from before publication of this so makes me wonder 🤔 . I also read Awais’ interview with Sadler on this book. I guess the thing I’m honing in on is Sadler’s view of the history. Still plodding through it. Very interesting stuff.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 3d
I really like this book, but the one glaring thing that it seems to be missing is that morality is something that is often, throughout history derived from ‘madness,’ going out of one’s mind, or so-called abnormal behaviour.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 4d
This is a very good question.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 4d
Oh dude the ridiculous stories I have about OUP books. 🤦
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 4d
Diagram from Ida Mae Hammond’s revelation concerning schizophrenia from the popular, million plus selling book Pigs in the Parlor - A Practical Guide to Deliverence.
INSECONTA INFERIORITY Pride Intolerance Fear of Judgment S-E-L-F - P-I-T-Y FALSE COMPASSION (4) FALSE RESPONSIBILITY DEPRESSION - Despondency Despair - Discouragement Hopelessness SUICIDE GUILT - Condemnation Unworthiness - Shame Fantasy Lust L-U-S-T Harlotry Perverseness FEAR OF REJECTION R-E-J-E-C-T-1-O-N (1) SELF-REJECTION SELF-ACCUSATION Compulsive Confession @ PARANOID HATRED - と 00 > REON. JEALOUSY ENVY SUSPICION PERSECUTION CONFRONTATION DISTRUST FEARS CONTROL - POSSESSIVENESS Judgmental Unteachableness Pride HURRICANE ACCUSATION TOWARD OTHERS (6) Projection SCHIZOPHRENIA R-E-B-E-L-L-I-O-N (7) SELF-WILL SELFISHNESS STUBBORNNESS SELF-DECEPTION SELF-DELUSION SELF-SEDUCTION
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 5d
Fascinated to find this book on the unconscious from Alasdair MacIntyre which thanks Jonathan Lear in the revised edition (2004), just after both their deaths.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 5d
What is your method for solving methodological problems?
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 5d
Noticing a lot of different uses of the word heterodox these days! Very interesting as it gets deployed more often in the discourse and in different contexts.
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 6d
Great interview with the author about the book from Know Your Enemy podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/k...
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Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 7d
Current listening @swordsjew.bsky.social
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