This book is new on the stands. Would not say hot off the press. More cold logic and lot of hours of drudgery. But I am personally satisfied with the scholarship and the openness for new ideas. The book is available in Karmac books online.
Albert Einstein once said: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
‘ Semitism and Brahminism’ is such a powerful and overpowering knot as a result of thousands of years of linear and rational thinking as dictated by the vicissitudes of civilisational trajectories and relentless cultural wars. We end up picking up the pieces in our day to day clinical works is the occupational hazard of our professional lives.
Brahma is the creator of social, political and cultural orders of our civilisations. All the roads to hell are paved with the best intention as Samuel Johnson puts it. So for all the right and wrong reasons, the knot of Brahminism and Anti Brahminism evolves and comes across our ways of clinical work of the Psychiatrist and Brethren Psychologists.
APA Diaspora Jewish Psychiatrists campaigned to make Anti-Semitism as a diagnostic entity in its own merit. The dissenting faction from the same group contended in Autocorrecting the habits of the methods of Semitism through rigorous reflection and taking Kanner’s Autistic Spectrum Disorder as a valid tool to allay the evils in the system of Semitism puritanical concepts. Simon Baron Cohen’s Zero Degree of Empathy captures how the empathy gets lost in both Autism and Personality disorders, i.e: Semitism Vs Anti Semitism. And he is the leading figurehead for UK Autistic Communities.
I picked up this seed / thread from Rk Rudhran and have been working on since 2007, with little or no progress so far. I reached calamitous conclusions and paid a hefty price with my mental health in my juvenile and relentless pursuit with this and retired hurt since 2015. But the new openings from Jewish Psychoanalysts have rekindled my hopes for a better future. Clinical diagnoses are often persecutory and Recovery tools from psychologists are nurturing in a motherly way.
I am keen to learn any new developments taking place in Indian milieu from my teachers and colleagues to see if any attempts to tame the holy cow in to the clinical canons of recovery similar to our American masters. There are a lot of interdisciplinary learning that takes between : Psychology and Humanities ( Folklore, Anthropology, Literature and Fine Arts) which has made this dream in to a ground reality. The religious essence gets distilled in to the agents of social care in this process. Whereas the holy cow approach held by the nexus of powerful families and aided by religious institutions are making the recovery to mental well being available to the chosen few in this network. How social institutions could spread this to the very last socially disadvantaged avoiding calamitous agents of change like Marxism is the challenge in front of us. To me it means more scholastic vigour, open mindedness, more tea , meditation and endless conversations.
If Jewish Prof Simon Baron Cohen is able to convert the angst of Jewish Genocide in to an useful role of championing for the Autistic Spectrum disorder and defend it against its predators of Personality disordered anger, thereby cleansing his memories of the trauma.I believe the same could prove useful in to converting the trauma of the Tamil Genocide from the Indian consciousness by introducing the clinical model of Autism and its antagonists in using personality disorder clinical concepts. That would be my campaigning message in a nut shell. And Humanities could tamper and shape it further to an useful clinical entity.
On an end note: The key message from Islam is ‘ The creator / Allah stands away from his creations’ avoiding this kind of getting in to Brahminism trouble. And it is heavy snow for the past few days and I am stranded in my own home. Looking through the windows of pristine and pure snow creating some homogenous order and taking away all the diverse happiness I am used to. I would be very happy to lead, follow and shake hands with one and all who share similar interest. Starting a new division in RCPsych college in the international relations can be a help or hindrance as you can advise me.
Links:
Zero Degree of Empathy: https://www.theguardian.com/…/zero-degrees-empathy-baron-co…
Old and Dirty Gods: Antisemitism and Psychoanalysis :
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Dirty-Gods-Antisemi…/…/0415790980
https://www.amazon.com/Old-Dirty-Gods-Antisemi…/…/0415790980
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