Mingcen Wei (Ming)

Dual BS in Data Science/Psychology. Learns psychiatry/psychotherapy critically. Loves programming.

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd My argument is not to show BPD is a chemical problem; quite the opposite, my point is that BPD is not simply a brain problem

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd Similarly, we have far less neural level understanding of problems like BPD than psychosocial understanding

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd We already have a lot of psychosocial understanding of BPD, and some basic genetic/neuroscientific understanding of it. But my original point was that psychotherapy can never be regarded as a mere brain intervention

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd I totally agree that there are some biological and genetical components of BPD, and neuroscience findings may help in some way. Nonetheless, it can also not be reduced to a brain problem. Besides, there already exist a wealth of deep truths of BPD in the field of psychotherapy

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd It's also totally feasible to develop atom-level "interventions" (chemical reactions) and detect atom activity. That's what chemistry is about

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd ❝We can directly intervene at the neural level❞

No one disagrees with this claim, except that such direct neural interventions are far less effective than psychotherapy for problems like BPD (or simply ineffective)

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd You're also reducing psychotherapy to a brain intervention

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd 3/ Your logic: Ugh. Psychotherapy/drugs *also* work on atoms. It is a chemical-reaction treatment, albeit a more sophisticated & chemically selective one than ordinary chemical reactions (atomic rearrangements) that impact atoms cleverly across the body.

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@dr_alexharris @NeuroAnaTody @JonathanShedler @MarkLRuffalo @seanluomdphd 2/2 You probably regard it as absurd to assume that medication is an intervention on atom arrangements instead of an intervention on the brain. It is similarly absurd to reduce psychotherapy—a mind intervention—to a mere brain intervention.

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This is @CarolineFohlin from @EmoryUniversity being arrested at a protest in Atlanta today.

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@OscarKjell @rstatstweet @rstats4ds @rstats_tweets Thank you for the great text package! I have used it to analyze text data for my bachelor's thesis. I've made some changes so it can better handle Chinese text. I'll make time to submit these modifications.

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

The good news is that I have earned my bachelor’s degrees in data science & in psychology. ☺️

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

Today is the 10th birthday of my Twitter account (& unfortunately, the day after women in the US lost their federal constitutional right to abortion). It's more than half a year since I tweeted the last time. I think it's time for me to return to Twitter. #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

The past half year was really stressful for me. I was rejected by the top medical school in China, so now I'm applying to graduate programs in clinical psychology abroad (preferably in the US). I also broke up with my girlfriend, whom I love deeply. I feel great grief.

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@MaartenvSmeden Machine learning, radically changing how we see the world since 1829

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

attention to one set of associations or linkages may, by implication, suggest to the patient that certain aspects of mental
life or behavior are worth more attention than others.❞

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

Just as therapists can't be truly neutral or anonymous, therapists really can't abstain from all advice giving. From Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy by Glen Gabbard (2004): ❝[M]ost current thinkers view suggestion as an integral part of the therapist’s authority that one…

[Allen Frances @AllenFrancesMD]

No one-size-fits-all in #psychotherapy. Sometimes advice is life changing/even life saving. Sometimes it's way off the mark. Some patients need advice/most don't. Some therapists are good at giving advice/others aren't. Best if therapists follow patient need, not universal rules.

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

… should not disavow (Levy and Inderbitzin 1997). For example, even interpretations may call the patient’s attention to behavior patterns with an implicit or explicit suggestion that
the patterns are problematic and may require change (Raphling 1995).
Directing the patient’s…

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@Human__Age In China, psychiatrists without any training in psychotherapy can provide psychotherapy to patients.

[Mingcen Wei (Ming) @MingcenWei]

@Human__Age and as a result, counselors’s competency is extremely varied, & many sell snake oil.