In ancient Greece people appreciated what was called the 'Golden Mean'. A military general was expected to be a poet, a politician and and a philosopher. When Christianity appeared as a religion there was no problem with Jesus being a carpenter, a teacher and a doctor. Phillip Romero, in like fashion is an artist, a scientist, a doctor and a philosopher.
Psychiatry is a specialist medical field. Unlike psychology it focuses on specific medical conditions and uses medical science as the means of diagnosis and treatment. Both psychology and psychiatry claim to be 'sciences' but the latter concentrates more on medical practice and on solving specific conditions of the mind.
Western medicine typically relies heavily upon scientific method. Medical practitioners tend to to be trained to think convergently rather than divergently. They work on the assumption that things are not true until they have been proved to be. For that reason western doctors do not easily understand Chinese traditional medicine which does not start from the same premise.
Both western and eastern medical practitioners are concerned with survival. They treat diseases that threaten lives and react to emergencies that threaten the lives of individuals. In the case of psychiatric medicine they may have to treat conditions that upset normal functioning of the mind. The distinction between mental normality and abnormality impinges on the notion of sanity. In the physical and mental environment that existed in the First World War seemed sane to the protagonists whilst it was happening. In hindsight, killing thousands of your own men appears insane.
The artist works close to this boundary between sanity and insanity. San painters who daubed on the walls of their caves appear to have been doing more than simply representing what they saw. Perhaps unconsciously they were creating metaphors and symbols that attempted to answer the question, 'Why?' They are not constrained by convergent thinking because their way of working is to create original symbols.
In the twenty-first century people may wonder at the fragility of life in the Stone Age. Unknown diseases, accidents, predatory beasts and enemy clans most have threatened individual and group survival at every turn. Yet, sitting in the sun after a feast people probably felt quite secure even as catastrophe hovered overhead.
In the contemporary world science and technology enable us to live in a global village, hearing each other sneeze across continents, as though in rooms divided by a thin partition. Some people are content to live for the moment but others look for signs of what is to come. As hunters might have noted game migrating so modern people worry about climate change and diminishing resources. They are signs that urgent action is required in the ongoing struggle for survival.
In ancient times a hunter and a painter might have co-operated in facing a problem. Returning from a reconnaissance the hunter might have surveyed present realities in the light of metaphors created on cave walls. In a similar fashion Phillip Romero uses the latest technology which is the Internet. He shows how artists' metaphors might hold hope for the imperative social, economic and political solutions for the new challenges of our times.
Psychiatry is a specialist medical field. Unlike psychology it focuses on specific medical conditions and uses medical science as the means of diagnosis and treatment. Both psychology and psychiatry claim to be 'sciences' but the latter concentrates more on medical practice and on solving specific conditions of the mind.
Western medicine typically relies heavily upon scientific method. Medical practitioners tend to to be trained to think convergently rather than divergently. They work on the assumption that things are not true until they have been proved to be. For that reason western doctors do not easily understand Chinese traditional medicine which does not start from the same premise.
Both western and eastern medical practitioners are concerned with survival. They treat diseases that threaten lives and react to emergencies that threaten the lives of individuals. In the case of psychiatric medicine they may have to treat conditions that upset normal functioning of the mind. The distinction between mental normality and abnormality impinges on the notion of sanity. In the physical and mental environment that existed in the First World War seemed sane to the protagonists whilst it was happening. In hindsight, killing thousands of your own men appears insane.
The artist works close to this boundary between sanity and insanity. San painters who daubed on the walls of their caves appear to have been doing more than simply representing what they saw. Perhaps unconsciously they were creating metaphors and symbols that attempted to answer the question, 'Why?' They are not constrained by convergent thinking because their way of working is to create original symbols.
In the twenty-first century people may wonder at the fragility of life in the Stone Age. Unknown diseases, accidents, predatory beasts and enemy clans most have threatened individual and group survival at every turn. Yet, sitting in the sun after a feast people probably felt quite secure even as catastrophe hovered overhead.
In the contemporary world science and technology enable us to live in a global village, hearing each other sneeze across continents, as though in rooms divided by a thin partition. Some people are content to live for the moment but others look for signs of what is to come. As hunters might have noted game migrating so modern people worry about climate change and diminishing resources. They are signs that urgent action is required in the ongoing struggle for survival.
In ancient times a hunter and a painter might have co-operated in facing a problem. Returning from a reconnaissance the hunter might have surveyed present realities in the light of metaphors created on cave walls. In a similar fashion Phillip Romero uses the latest technology which is the Internet. He shows how artists' metaphors might hold hope for the imperative social, economic and political solutions for the new challenges of our times.
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