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Greg Dillon is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Clinical Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College. See full bio

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No Next New Big Things, Please

The secret to publishing success (at least in the impulse-buy-quick-fix-self-help-non-fiction-cum-memoir market) has been said to be a number. A single digit, 3, 7, 8, or what have you. That digit represents the number of quick and simple steps towards fortune, fame, and total enlightentment. People eat this up, not surprisingly. Read More

Hmmm....

interesting. . .

;)

I wonder what else is out

I wonder what else is out there?

ps

what on earth was wrong with The New New Thing (the name of the book to which I think you are referring). GOOP is a website, hardly a business opportunity that a guy in silicon valley would put a gun to his head over not having been asked to participate -- part of the story in The New New Thing (and an issue, as a shrink, which I imagine might concern you). It's like a private online community, the latest in marketing... don't see why you would see to both of those in the same breath.

or is really that subversive to your world of "the little blue pill"?

The Next New Big Thing

Thanks for your comments. I was not actually critiquing or even directly refering to Michael Lewis's book, though I have read it, and found it an interesting profile. Your assumption that I was critiquing that book points to the very issue at hand, the desire for a right answer. What Goop, Michael Lewis, the entire Business, Religious, and General Self Help sections at the airport bookstores risk in common, is a fascination with either finding the one true answer, or, making a fortune trying to do so. All I advise in the piece, is a little bit of balance, and a little less hubris. To your point, social-netwwork media platforms are key to ongoing discussion, refinements, and, even marketing, if that's your bag. But, I just suggest that we look at the questions being asked, the patterns, and not defintiive answers as such, which rot on the vine. Planned obsolence may work for marketing, but it is futile and frustrating in the world of philosophy and psychological evolution. Also, the cool thing about psyhiatry, in the right hands, is that nothing subverts it. It only expands and evolves as a field with new information. Your last jab is an angry, adolescent move. Let it go... And, why would "the little blue pill" (the marketing moniker for Sidenafil or Viagra) make up the world of a psychiatrist? Maybe a Urologist. Unless your going Freudian on me...

nothing subverts psychiatry?

nothing subverts psychiatry? I'll take creativity over psychiatry any day.

Good psychiatry IS

Good psychiatry IS creativity, philosophy, enlightenment, and the road to self-knowledge and universal consciousness. Marketing is not. I feel you are fighting your own dragons, not mine; so, I leave you to it.

does that include massive

does that include massive orgies with a man you have loved since you were 10?

why do you blog when you can

why do you blog when you can fuck your patients for free?

why do you blog when you can

why do you blog when you can get paid to fuck your clients for free?

do you take sophie fiennes

do you take sophie fiennes into bed with Sam Skey?

or is that like just another

or is that like just another day with johnson and johnson and pfizer?

or, is that you?

or, is that you?

i do it in my head with her

i do it in my head with her brother over the television

sophie's brother, that is.

sophie's brother, that is.

... and it's pronounced Rafe.

... and it's pronounced Rafe.

or, did we want to let him

or, did we want to let him give the wigs shocks upstairs at New York Hosptial?

i mean Hospital.

i mean Hospital.

you big meanie.

you big meanie.

or, how's about that

or, how's about that transference...

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