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Why, this topic is absolutely fascinating!
In just a handful of posts, I’ve learned all about electrical currents (in the US and UK), the effect they can have on brain function, and a wonderful coinage: “symptomatology.” Wonder who came up with that one?
What is truly amazing is how far we’ve come in the last 100 years in plumbing the human personality. Freud and Jung revealed the enormous power of the subconscious to shape behavior—an idea that was completely alien to people before their pioneering work. More recently, we have come to understand that neurology also plays a significant role in defining personality, perhaps more consequentially than psychology. Now we’re beginning to understand how certain exogenous factors (like a bad shock or blow to the head [and who knows, perhaps diet and exercise?]) can affect neurology, in much the same way that traumatic events (combat or abuse, for example) can affect psychology. It turns out that personality is a complex palimpsest. And for people who suffer from mental-health issues, it can make it hard to know where to turn first. Therapist? Neurologist? Psychiatrist?
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