Out today! - my “On Madness” - available in pb hb & ebook from Bloomsbury: Herewith a🧵 detailing some of its key notions.

@MikeBenchCapon Keep up the good work Michael

@Rainmaker1973 No, I cannot believe that the vans are the same size. I can only believe that the images of the vans are the same size. Which is what I'd expect if the vans at the back were larger. Which is, in fact, precisely what I see.

This again. No, the vans aren't the same size. It's just the images of the vans that are the same size. There's no illusion here - unless depth perception is intrinsically illusory. (But would depth perception have to fail for us to speak of veridical, non-illusory, perception?!)

RT @bennyjohnson: Ban all porn on X X is the town square No one wants pornography broadcast in the town square Please share if you wan…

@SameiHuda Thank you for writing "effective". I'm tired both of psychiatric propagandists writing "very effective", and of anti-psychs writing "ineffective", instead - which makes me wonder what they take a "moderately effective" medicament to even be.

@WittFreud Can I ask: do you think such truth is simply a matter of using words in accord with their meaning to voice, inter alia, true rather than false propositions? Or is there a sense of 'true' here that must be understood otherwise?

No, it's more like: 'true' in "true to life", or "true to type/form", or "to thine own self be true", "ring true". Not about accurate representation, but about an absence of distortion, the maintenance of a form.

RT @JonathanShedler: So I’ve just returned from the annual conference of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and here is my unsolicite…

@Beloved71478281 @Miss_Snuffy @SOS_HELP_US How do you get from £140,000 to over £200,000?

@Keith_Laws I just read the Discussion section and it didn't have much to say about the significance of the prevalence of different themes. Commonalities: common cognitive dysfunction; but some cultural influences. Interesting about primary delusions in non-schiz. But not much here?

@KemtrupTweets terrible I'd not be able to cope with this sometimes stressful job, but thankfully it's good. b) If I weren't taking valium I wouldn't be able to deal with this job. ... I found this paper very helpful in thinking this through:

@KemtrupTweets quit your job etc). But a healthy response to an unhealthy feeling doesn’t make the feeling healthy, and we are still lacking any criterion for saying it has signalling as its natural telos, so that doesn’t work.

@Psychistential Syphilis