http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/155 SPREADING THE GOOD WORD Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/155#comment-2140 Harmonic Resonance Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/155#comment-2140 This particular blog/post reminds me of Ramachandran's work. http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/ramabio.html Particularly his work with phantom limbs. Often people with these type of psychological disorders would seek out amputation of the limb that they believed didn't exist, or at least shouldn't. Sometimes the patients would have chronic pain in limbs that actually WEREN'T there. Feelings of a closed fist or stinging pain in a limb that they had lost. Ramachandran had some luck in relieving victims of this later type, by tricking the mind with an illusion to make it think that the hand had come back. Simple trick with mirrors. As far as the gender psychological disorder, I think that it is similar. I agree that I think it would be best not to physically change the body, but to adapt or figure out some other way of handling it. I have no idea what that might be, yet still I feel that changing the visual/physical aspect of the body to be an extreme solution. In closing it is tough to say really because I am for freedom of choice. This particular blog/post reminds me of Ramachandran’s work. http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/ramabio.html
Particularly his work with phantom limbs. Often people with these type of psychological disorders would seek out amputation of the limb that they believed didn’t exist, or at least shouldn’t. Sometimes the patients would have chronic pain in limbs that actually WEREN’T there. Feelings of a closed fist or stinging pain in a limb that they had lost. Ramachandran had some luck in relieving victims of this later type, by tricking the mind with an illusion to make it think that the hand had come back. Simple trick with mirrors. As far as the gender psychological disorder, I think that it is similar. I agree that I think it would be best not to physically change the body, but to adapt or figure out some other way of handling it. I have no idea what that might be, yet still I feel that changing the visual/physical aspect of the body to be an extreme solution. In closing it is tough to say really because I am for freedom of choice.

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