Click Here to Read: Friday Weird Science: The evolutionary psychology of the romance novel by scicurious on the Neurotic Physiology website on December 22, 2012.
Another Troubled Mind: A Dominican Nun and Jesuit Educated Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Shares His Struggles with Guns and Mental Illness
By Neal Spira
It appears we have our answer on addressing assault weapon access in any meaningful way: there will be none. The Democrats are completely scattered with 5 different US Senators with 5 different bills to be introduced in the 113th Congress next year. All of the Republic leaders have developed sudden selective mutism. There is no Read the rest of this post »
Click Here to Read: The NRA Even Gets the Sandy Hook Body Count Wrong: The gun lobby’s front man couldn’t even get the number of children murdered at Sandy Hook right. But what are facts when your whole premise is a lie, writes Michael Daly on the Daily Beast website on December 22, 2012.
Dear Colleagues,
It has been a long week of national soul searching an solution suggesting in response to the extraordinary massacre in Newtown, Ct. From those who propose the abolition of the NRA to others who wish to place armed guards in all schools, we are bombarded by extremes. The posts on the international psychoanalytic website are an attempt to bring to you a reasoned Read the rest of this post »
Click Here to View: Photographs from Underwater in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia in December 2012 by Marie-Elizabeth Mali on her Marie Elizabeth Albums website.
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Click Here to Read: In Gun Debate, a Misguided Focus on Mental Illness By Richard A. Friedman, M.D. in The New York Times on December 17, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Durability of improvement in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and absence of harmful effects or drug dependency after 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy: a prospective long-term follow-up study by Michael C Mithoefer et al. in the Journal of Psychopharmocology on he Sage Publications website.
Click Here to Read: NRA sees rise in membership after Connecticut school shooting Fox News’ James Rosen contributed to this reporton the Fox News Website on December 19, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Fiscal cliff: D.C.’s Mayan apocalypse By Peter Wolson on the Reuters website on Ddecember 20, 2012.
Click Here to Read : Nurturing a spirit of caring and generosity in children by Kenneth Barish on the OUP blog website on December 19th, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Walking the Tightrope on Mental Health Coverage By Ron Lieber in The New York Times on December 21, 2012.
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Click Here to Read: Child-rape Rates of 300/month in Seven Haitian Earthquake Refugee Camps Are Dropping to Zero by Gilbert Kliman, M.D. of the The Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc.
Click Here to Read: Table of Contents of Facing Cancer and the Fear Of Death, edited by Norman Straker,
Click Here to Read: Introduction Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Challenge for The 21-Century A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatments, edited by Norman Straker MD.
Click Here to Read: Chapter 13: Conclusion to Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death by Norman Straker MD.
Click Here to Read: Editor and Authors of Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death. Read the rest of this post »
Discussion Group 86: “Facing Death” Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Patients
Chair Norman Straker, M.D. (New York, NY)
Presenter A Trained Senior Analyst
A senior analyst who miraculously recovered from sepsis and aplastic anemia, one year ago will describe the several weeks he spent in a Reverse Isolation Unit. Fully aware that there was no cure for his illness, he faced death several times, while extremely sick. He describes the psychological steps he took to manage his terror that he experienced about dying. His self- Read the rest of this post »
Click Here to Read: Gun control and preventive mental health care to honor the lost children of Newtown by Claudia M Gold on the Boston.com website on December 15, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Adam Lanza and preventive mental health care by Claudia M Gold on the Boston.com website December 19, 2012.
A NURSERY OF VIOLENCE?
The chicken bobbed around, darting now here, now there. Randomly. There was no head. I couldn’t help noticing. I was 5 years old. The neighbor boy was showing me how to cut chickens’ heads off with an axe. Then he said that the horn on my Lionel electric train sounded like pigs being electrocuted. These images have never left my mind. They never will. It was rumored there was a lot of domestic violence at his house. Read the rest of this post »
Click Here To Read: Don’t Blame Autism for Newtown By Pricilla Gilman in The New York Times on December 17, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Newtown Shootings – The View from 300.01 By David L. Levine on the Scientific American blogs website on December 20, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The dopamine side(s) of depression By Scicurious on the Scientific American bkog website on December 17, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Guns and the Limits of Shame possted by Jon Lee Anderson on the New Yorker Blgo website on December 16, 2012.
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