Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA
@granthbrennermd.bsky.social
I'm an author psychiatrist psychoanalyst entrepreneur photographer consultant disaster mental healther, self-other-help guy who is not offering medical advice and expressing his own opinions only.
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"I told him that things had become so dark and hopeless that I could no longer imagine a future; he smiled at me and softly said that it was precisely then, in the darkest times, when one could see furthest."
— Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac
— Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac
April 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"I told him that things had become so dark and hopeless that I could no longer imagine a future; he smiled at me and softly said that it was precisely then, in the darkest times, when one could see furthest."
— Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac
— Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
From within the silo of insecure self, security may seem not only unattainable, but also is very difficult to imagine for oneself. We may see others who appear secure, and we may experience a range of unnerving reactions, from envy and admiration to...
From within the silo of insecure self, security may seem not only unattainable, but also is very difficult to imagine for oneself. We may see others who appear secure, and we may experience a range of unnerving reactions, from envy and admiration to...
How Insecurity Begets Dysfunctional Self-Reinforcing Cycles
An insecure sense of self creates a ripple effect, emanating from within and reverberating through one's personal and professional life. But change is within reach.
www.psychologytoday.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
From within the silo of insecure self, security may seem not only unattainable, but also is very difficult to imagine for oneself. We may see others who appear secure, and we may experience a range of unnerving reactions, from envy and admiration to...
From within the silo of insecure self, security may seem not only unattainable, but also is very difficult to imagine for oneself. We may see others who appear secure, and we may experience a range of unnerving reactions, from envy and admiration to...
There is far more good than bad in the world, even as the bad is more salient much of the time.
April 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
There is far more good than bad in the world, even as the bad is more salient much of the time.
April 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
When there are two competing and mutually exclusive perspectives, the truth is somewhere in the muddle.
April 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
When there are two competing and mutually exclusive perspectives, the truth is somewhere in the muddle.
Why is the world so cold and merciless? Granted there is a tremendous amount of humanity and compassion but our power structures so often shift to the sociopathic.
There's major significance that machine intelligence is entering the fray while this is happening.
There's major significance that machine intelligence is entering the fray while this is happening.
March 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Why is the world so cold and merciless? Granted there is a tremendous amount of humanity and compassion but our power structures so often shift to the sociopathic.
There's major significance that machine intelligence is entering the fray while this is happening.
There's major significance that machine intelligence is entering the fray while this is happening.
Doorknob Comments Podcast
Would You Rather Have An AI or a Human Therapist? #79 -Prof Nir Eisikovits
A case for human therapists. But people need more help.
Are human therapy institutions doing research to see if there are superior areas?
www.doorknobcomments.com/episodes/nir... #therapy #AI
Would You Rather Have An AI or a Human Therapist? #79 -Prof Nir Eisikovits
A case for human therapists. But people need more help.
Are human therapy institutions doing research to see if there are superior areas?
www.doorknobcomments.com/episodes/nir... #therapy #AI
Would You Rather Have An AI or a Human Therapist? #79 — Doorknob Comments
On this episode of Doorknob Comments, Fara and Grant are joined by Professor Nir Eisikovits, a philosopher and the founding director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston. They delve into the i...
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March 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Doorknob Comments Podcast
Would You Rather Have An AI or a Human Therapist? #79 -Prof Nir Eisikovits
A case for human therapists. But people need more help.
Are human therapy institutions doing research to see if there are superior areas?
www.doorknobcomments.com/episodes/nir... #therapy #AI
Would You Rather Have An AI or a Human Therapist? #79 -Prof Nir Eisikovits
A case for human therapists. But people need more help.
Are human therapy institutions doing research to see if there are superior areas?
www.doorknobcomments.com/episodes/nir... #therapy #AI
Don't confuse real therapy with fake therapy.
March 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Don't confuse real therapy with fake therapy.
"I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object – internal and external – without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego."
Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein
March 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"I believe that the ego is incapable of splitting the object – internal and external – without a corresponding splitting taking place within the ego."
Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein
Upsides of AI
"In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like—what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right."
darioamodei.com/machines-of-...
"In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like—what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right."
darioamodei.com/machines-of-...
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
darioamodei.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Upsides of AI
"In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like—what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right."
darioamodei.com/machines-of-...
"In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like—what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right."
darioamodei.com/machines-of-...
I understand you can't make omelets without breaking eggs, but did you have to kill the chickens?
#satirical
#satirical
March 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I understand you can't make omelets without breaking eggs, but did you have to kill the chickens?
#satirical
#satirical
Seeing the human being in the other person is always a choice.
March 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Seeing the human being in the other person is always a choice.
There is an inherent paradox of self, irreducible, and there is no expert consensus, though there are many ardent opinions. How to proceed?
@psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #psychology #self #therapy
@psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #psychology #self #therapy
Pondering Sense of Self in a Chaotic World
What self means, and how we think about it, evolves with culture. In a complex and unstable world, do we need new ways to think about self?
www.psychologytoday.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
There is an inherent paradox of self, irreducible, and there is no expert consensus, though there are many ardent opinions. How to proceed?
@psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #psychology #self #therapy
@psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #psychology #self #therapy
You, Me & Us
February 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You, Me & Us
The lived moment perhaps is an envelope, a blanket enclosing the past, present, and future, akin to the cell membrane around individual cells or the skin encapsulating the body.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex...
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex...
www.psychologytoday.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The lived moment perhaps is an envelope, a blanket enclosing the past, present, and future, akin to the cell membrane around individual cells or the skin encapsulating the body.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex...
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex...
Time. We use it to organize our lives, measure our experiences, and impose structure on reality. But what if time, as we conventionally understand it, doesn’t actually exist? @psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #intelligence #physics #philosophy #time #freewill #complexity
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #intelligence #physics #philosophy #time #freewill #complexity
Time, Causality, and Computational Intelligence
Understanding how we conceptualize time out of the complex present moment opens up possibilities for greater causal impact.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Time. We use it to organize our lives, measure our experiences, and impose structure on reality. But what if time, as we conventionally understand it, doesn’t actually exist? @psychologytoday.com
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #intelligence #physics #philosophy #time #freewill #complexity
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ex... #intelligence #physics #philosophy #time #freewill #complexity
People have different paths to health and recovery, and however they might think about it that process.
It's important to respect differences and not impose unreflectively what we've learned from our own experiences on others.
It's important to respect differences and not impose unreflectively what we've learned from our own experiences on others.
February 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
People have different paths to health and recovery, and however they might think about it that process.
It's important to respect differences and not impose unreflectively what we've learned from our own experiences on others.
It's important to respect differences and not impose unreflectively what we've learned from our own experiences on others.
What appears to be foresight may simply be restatement of what is obvious to one or few, long-true, but forgotten and ignored by many.
February 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What appears to be foresight may simply be restatement of what is obvious to one or few, long-true, but forgotten and ignored by many.