Stefan Björk Ψ @drbjork@scholar.social

Why I quit academia.

Credit: Pedromics (Pedro Veliça)

By way of #introduction, I could also mention that I am also a #GenderStudies scholar and #feminist.

I'm a #PhD of #Psychology and work #psychologist at the Swedish National Employment Service. I have a keen interest in #PhilosophyOfPsychology, #PhilosophyOfMind, #CriticalPsychology, #HistoryOfPsychology and #Phenomenology. I blog (in #Swedish) at https://fenomenologen.se. Is that enough as an #introduction?

A four hour classroom observation, a two-hour meeting, a one-hour meeting and I'm totally exhausted. Documentation still lagging. Luckily, this is not an ordinary workday.

#LifeAsASchoolPsychologist

Hello.

I'm back.

I needed this place.

Does someone have a PDF of Sir Anthony Kenny's classic essay "The Homunculus Fallacy"?

https://philpapers.org/rec/KENTHF

Fuck.

I'm leaving, at least for a period of time. The reason is simple: my ex partner, who many of you know who it is, toots things about her "previous relationship" that I feel very uncomfortable with. I love #Mastodon and the #Fediverse, but this is no longer a safe space for me.

I might check in from time to time, so send me a DM if you want to keep in touch through other channels.

I really don't know how to deal with this and it makes me sad that I'm attacked in discussions on social media like Facebook, even by my fellow psychologists. That's why avoid talking about this, which is sad, because that is certainly needed in a world that so blatantly medicalises human suffering.

The language gap is so wide that fellow psychologists get angry with me when I say obvious things, like neuropsychiatric disabilities are about the discrepancy between the (culturally and historically mediated) demands of the surroundings and the abilities of the individuals. They somehow think the disability rests somewhere "inside" the individual.

They are so certain of the distinction between the "psychological inner" and the "material and social outer" that they believe they can isolate the individual and only speak about the "inside". To me, the distinction between the inner and the outer is blurred and I cant separate the individual from their web of meanings and social relationships.

It's frustrating to be a critical socio-cultural psychologist because there is a huge language gap between me and most fellow psychologists. They are so used to viewing individuals as separate, isolated entities while I see them as nexuses in a web of social relationships in a culturally and historically mediated life-world.

Looking for a #markdown editor for #iphone.

Suggestions?

Attending a lecture on mental health and well-being in school. The lecturer, a physician, has no clue whatsoever meta-cognition means and mixes it up with self-awareness and perspective-taking.

Cringing in my chair.