Archive for the 'Controversial' Category

A Response to My LIfe in Therapy

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Click Here to Read:  A Response to “My LIfe in Therapy”: Daphne Merkin’s Long and Difficult “Education in Disillusioned Realism” Did Daphne Merkin’s four decades of psychotherapy fail miserably?  by Dr. Stephen Diamond on his Evil Deeds blog on the Psychology Today blogs on September 2, 2010.

Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010



Click Here to Read:  Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young by Duff Wilson in the New York Times on September 1, 2010.

Psychological Attacks

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Click Here to Read: Psychological Attacks on the ShrinkWrapped website on July 30, 2010.

June was worst month for Army suicides

Friday, July 16th, 2010



Click Here to Read: June was worst month for Army suicides, statistics show by Mike Mount on the CNN website on July 15, 2010.

From Steven Reisner: latest developments in the fight against psychologists’ and other health professionals’ involvement in torture

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

Our efforts to restore ethics to our nation’s treatment of detainees and prisoners and to hold accountable those psychologists and other health professionals who created, supervised and implemented the program of abuse and torture are coming to a head. Two weeks ago, Physicians for Human Rights published an extraordinary exposé on the role of health professionals in creating a program of medical research on unwitting prisoners in order to assess the efficacy and ‘legality’ of abusive techniques, including water-boarding. (Full disclosure: I was a co-author of the report. It can be downloaded here.)

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What causes people to give false confessions?

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010






Click Here To Read: What causes people to give false confessions? By Lisa Black and Steve Mills, in the Chicago Tribune on July 10, 2010.

Robert Galatzer-Levy is quoted in this article.

Andriani: Echoes of the Past: Some of the Underlying Nuances of Holocaust Trauma in Israel

Friday, June 4th, 2010

 

Click Here to Read: Andriani: Echoes of the Past: Some of the Underlying Nuances of Holocaust Trauma in Israel By: Cristina Andriani in the Armenian Weekly in the April 2010 issue.

Who’s Afraid of Social Democracy?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010




Click Here to Read: Who’s Afraid of Social Democracy? a blog by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl.

Shooting in Alabama: Stress does not cause Massacres

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010




Click Here to Read: Shooting in Alabama: Stress does not cause Massacres: The problem of the disappearing diagnosis of psychosis by Prudence Gourguechon on her Psychonanalytic Excavation blog on the Psychology Today blogs February 13, 2010.

Madness and Evil—A Review of The Sullivanian Institute/Fourth Wall Community

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Click Here to Read: Madness and Evil—A Review of The Sullivanian Institute/Fourth Wall Community: The Relationship of Radical Individualism and Authoritarianism by Amy B. Siskind,  Reviewed by Daniel Shaw on the International Cultic Studies Association website, vol 5 number 2, 2006.

Click Here to Read: Appendix: The Possible “Newtonian” Origin Of Beyond Psychoanalysis on the Larouche Planet website.

Pre-mature Anti-fascist: Aaron Hilkevitch 1912-2008

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Click Here to Read: Pre-mature Anti-fascist by Leslie Pratch on the ArticleSnatch.com website in October 2009.  

Click Here to Read:  Aaron Hilkevitch: 1912 – 2008: Psychiatrist in leftist causes: Volunteered for anti-fascist unit in Spain in ’30s

Can an Enemy Be a Child’s Friend?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010


Click Here to Read: Can an Enemy Be a Child’s Friend? by Benedict Carey in the New York Times on May 17, 2010.

Libel in Fact Magazine: The Challenge to the American Psychiatric Association

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010





Click Here to Read:  Libel in Fact Magazine: The Challenge to the American Psychiatric Association: A secret of psychiatric diagnosis in the 1960s is revealed by John D. Mayer  in the Personality Analyst blog on the Psychology Today blogs on  May 17, 2010.

Barry Goldwater

Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley

Saturday, May 15th, 2010



Click Here to Read:  Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley on the Truthout website on May 15, 2010.

Simon Critchley

The Plague of Violence in Our Communities and One Way to Stop It

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010






Click Here To Read:  The Plague of Violence in Our Communities and One Way to Stop It by Mark D. Smaller on his blog The Analyst in the Classrom on the Psychology Today blogs on May 9, 2010.

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Click Here to View: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan: Uncovering the World of the ‘baca bazi”: Journalist Najibullah Quraishi starts investigating what’s happening to Afghan boys, bought and trained to entertain at all-men parties on the Frontline PBS website.

Psychologists Notes May Indicate Zubaydah Torture Experimentation

Sunday, April 25th, 2010







Click Here to Read: Psychologists Notes May Indicate Zubaydah Torture Experimentation by Jeffrey Kaye on the TruthOut Website on April 25, 2010.

Memory is sacred again in Poland

Friday, April 16th, 2010




Click Here to Read: Memory is sacred again in Poland by Kris Kotarski on the Guardian.UK website on April 13, 2010.

A Psychoanalytic Slant: On Disavowal, War and Remembrance

Friday, April 16th, 2010



Click Here to Read:  A Psychoanalytic Slant: On Disavowal, War and Remembrance by Prudence Courguechon on the Huffington Post website on April 13, 2010.

A Psychologist Steeped in Treatment of Sexually Active Priests

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Click Here To Read:  A Psychologist Steeped in Treatment of Sexually Active Priests By Mark Oppenheimer in the New York Times on April 9, 2010.