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I am a psychiatrist (psychopharmacology and psychotherapy) specializing in the so-called "personality disorders," particularly narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. I was a Fellow and then an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia from 2004- 2011, when I had an intellectual crisis-of-faith in which I stopped believing that neuroimaging could shed significant insight into the mystery of subjective experience. Since then I have focused on my clinical practice (at the Personality Studies Institute) and philosophical concerns.
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Jonah Lehrer is Not a Neuroscientist
May 29, 2011
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One Brain, Many Selves?
May 25, 2011
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Where is pi?
June 14, 2011
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Chasing Their Own Tails: When Central Tendency Junkies Attack, Part 1
June 7, 2011
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There is no such thing as a zebra
June 13, 2011
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Beyonce’s Central Pattern Generator
October 8, 2009
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Online Poll: On the Merits of Screwing Up
June 3, 2011
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Its: not all in your head
June 16, 2011
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The loneliness of the aardvark
June 15, 2011
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Introduction to Readings
May 12, 2011
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Think Like A Shrink #1: Don’t Psychoanalyze Your Family and Friends!
October 19, 2012
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Auguste Comte: A General View of Positivism (1856)
October 29, 2012
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Renee Descartes: Not a Bad Philosopher. A Bad Physicist.
October 9, 2012
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Metaneuroscience: From Self to Neuroself, Part 7
May 24, 2011
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Human Brain Mapping
May 14, 2011
- Emergence Explained, Russ Abbott June 8, 2011
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Double Helix, Double Cross
April 14, 2013
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The Pentagon-Neuroscience Connection Part 2
April 11, 2013
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Eisenhower’s Ghost and Obama’s Brain
April 3, 2013
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The NYT Comes Around
April 2, 2013
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The antidote to ADHD isn’t Ritalin, it’s play: let’s make recess the first class of the day!
April 1, 2013
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Only Connectome
April 1, 2013
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Moment of Neural Zen
March 31, 2013
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Yes Albert, there is spooky action at a distance
March 31, 2013
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Do axons think?
March 30, 2013
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The Known Universe
March 30, 2013
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Impossible People
March 29, 2013
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The Medicalization of Deviance: Can Brain Images Detect Pre-Crime?
March 29, 2013
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More evidence of the concept of the self in non-humans
March 28, 2013
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Bees Detect Information from Electric Fields
March 28, 2013
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What’s the Difference Between Psychology and Psychopharmacology?
November 3, 2012
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What’s the Difference Between Mathematics and The Humanities?
November 2, 2012
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Written and Curated by Peter Freed, MD
I am a therapist, pharmacologist, and erstwhile functional neuroimager. My clinical work focuses on integrating medication with talk therapy to treat self-disorders. I want to build an empirical metaphysics with clinical teeth.





October 29, 2012
Psychotherapy