Loss of pleasure?
This the second instalment of my engagement with an account of a new, two-question screening test for depression. The first part of my critique was in the previous post. Continue reading “Loss of pleasure?”
Measuring what?
A few days ago, the Mental Elf blog published an account of a new depression screening study. I have written about depression screening before (here is a link to the full version of my article on Beck Depression Inventory), so I wanted to see what’s changed. Well, it seems that not much. And this is what this post is about.
“Suicide is outside me”
“Suicide is outside me. Life is sometimes is unbearable. ” Continue reading ““Suicide is outside me””
On insults and explanations
I love reading philosophers’ accounts of language. They always look at it from a different point of view. But once in a while they forget that they do not describe a communicative system that consists only of vocabulary and the rules how to use it (grammar), but also a means through which to make meaning. Continue reading “On insults and explanations”