Click Here To Read: Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud? The Viennese doctor has become a caricature by Siri Hustvedt on her Psychology Today blog Reading Minds: Method or Muddle? on March 12, 2010.
Siri Hustvedt
Click Here to Read: Soldiers’ Stories By Elizabeth D. Samet in the New York Times on March 3, 2010.
Letter to the Wall Street Journal in Response to Sally Satel’s Op-Ed piece by Zvi Lothane.
Sally Satel’s caveats concerning the forthcoming DSM-V, a child of the current DSM-IV, are well taken. I would like to suggest further clarifications. Unlike medicine, a clinical discipline that deals with medical conditions, psychiatry is a hybrid discipline, not just a cultural institution but a social and political one as well, dealing with a person’s conduct in society.
Social misconduct has been variously categorized as vice by philosophers, sin by priests, crime by policemen, and disease by psychiatrists. Diagnosing social misconduct as psychosis has serious social consequences: involuntary commitment, involuntary drug treatments, and stigmatization. Psychiatric diagnoses are also powerful political and economic tools in the marketplace, serving the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Follow the money: witness the intensity of the current political storm about the future of the entire health care system.
Click Here To Read: Op-Ed Contributors: Doctors Without Morals by Leonard S. Rubenstein and Stephen n. Xenakis in the New York times on February 28, 2010.
Click Here To Read: Distant Wars, Constant Ghosts By Shannon P. Meehand in Opinionater, Exclusive Online Oppinion from New York Times on February 22, 2010.
Click Here to Read: Adolf Hitler painting may have hung in Sigmund Freud’s surgery. The Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud might have had a painting by Hitler hanging on the wall of his office, it has been disclosed on the Telegraph.co. uk website on February 12, 2010.
The painting was taken from Vienna to Italy after the Second World War by an American GI who was told the picture had hung in Freud’s consulting rooms.
Click Here to Read: On Not Giving Advice by Claudia M. Gold on the Child in Mind website on February 4, 2010.
Click Here to Read: What Is the First Amendment For? By Stanley Fish in the New York Times on February 1, 2010.
Click Here to Read: Interim Final Rules under the Paul Wellstone and Pete Dominici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.
Click Here To Read: Chicago News Cooperative: More Than Academics at Morton Alternative by Giovanna Breu in the New York Times on January 23, 2010.
Morton Alternative High School is the last chance for students who are expelled from Morton East High School and Morton West.
Click Here To Read: Confidentiality: Ethical Perspectives and Clinical Dilemmas by Charles Levin, Allannah Furlong & Mary Kay O’Neal, reviewed by Valerie G. Giberman on the Division 39 of the APA Website.
Click Here to Read: If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online by Tamar Lewin in the New York Times on January 20, 2010.
“At night, I can text or watch something on YouTube until I fall asleep,” Francisco Sepulveda, 14, said of his smart phone.
Click Here to Read: Who’s The Crazy One: Dealing With Psychiatrists by Eliezer Sobel on the Huffington Post website on January 20, 2010.
Eliezer Sobel
Click Here to View: 3 Videos on The Bomb in the Brain: The Effects of Child Abuse from Freedomain Radio on YouTube.
Click Here to Read: Ethics Case Book of the American Psychoanalytic Association by Paul A. Dewald and Rita W. Clark Reviewed by Lorna Lees on the MetaPsychology Reviews website.
Click Here To Read: APsaA: Are Physicians Too Quick to Medicate ADHD? by Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today on the MedPage Today Website on January 16, 2010/
Click Here to Read: Inside Obama’s War on Terrorism by Peter Baker in the New York Times on January 4, 2010.
Click Here To Read: Violence: balancing treatment efficacy with provider safety by Phyllis Hanlon on the New England Psychologist website on January 2010.
Steve Nisenbaum, Ph.D., J.D., a 30-year staff member at Massachusetts General Hospital says that violent episodes create a conflict between provider safety and treatment efficacy. (photo by Tom Croke)
Click Here to Read: Examining the Psyche of the Christmas Bomber By Heather Horn on the Atlantic Wire website on December 30, 2009.
Click Here to View: Argentina in Therapy: Trailor Film on You Tube.
Click Here To View: Argentina in Therapy: Pre-Title Sequence