Belief System and Mental Disorders

Lori wrote:
So Kamyar have you found what you were looking for with your answers here?
I will send you an email. ok i will write it here.
Well, I know someone who has no ‘beliefs’ who appears to bend easily to the will of others…while all along has a heart like ice. nothing penetrates its surface.
What is [...]

Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism

There are two interesting and important concepts in anthropology, namely ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. Ethnocentrism or ethnocentricity, as its name suggests, simply means thinking of ones own ethnicity, culture, or any type or group that the person belongs to as the center of everything. Most people by far are ethnocentrist which makes sense; most of [...]

Why?

What makes our beliefs? Why do most people stick so hard to their dogmas? Why do people can change all of objective aspects of their lives such as their partners, their nationalities, their careers much more easily than they change subjective issues such as their beliefs? Why do some people with high intelligence, and excellent [...]

Schizophrenia and “antipsychiatric movement”

“No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious!” Thomas Szasz
“If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. [...]

Child abuse in Iran

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Listen to The Unforgiven from here.
Metallica Unforgiven Lyrics
New blood joins this earth
And quickly he’s subdued
Through constant pained disgrace
The young boy learns their rules
With time the child draws in
This whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts
The young man strugggles on and on he’s known
A vow unto his own
That never from this [...]