Recent Publications Review, Part 1 - 4.20.13
Psychology of Terrorism (link to GS):
The Psychology of a Boston Marathon Terrorist - National Journal
Victims of explosions are facing a long road ahead - Boston Globe
The Boston Bombings: Peculiar Benefits of the 9/11 Wars
TIME
“The field of disaster psychiatry and disaster mental health has progressed immensely since 9/11,” says Elspeth “Cam” Ritchie, who before retiring as an Army colonel in 2010 spent her final years in uniform as the service's top psychiatrist. Instead of ...
What Makes a Terrorist Terrorize?
PolicyMic
“The popular image of the terrorist as an individual motivated exclusively by deep and intransigent political commitment obscures a more complex reality,” explains Dr. Martha Crenshaw of Stanford University in a report, Psychology of Terrorism ...
Brothers in Arms: Sibling Psychology and the Bombing Suspects
TIME
Proximity is a critical element in what psychologists call “delinquency training” among siblings. This is true for lower-grade risk behaviors like smoking or drinking, since a younger sibling, who typically picks up the habit later than an older one ...
Bomb Suspects Now Mysterious to Those Who Thought They Knew ThemBloomberg
Boston Marathon Manhunt: Are the Tsarnaev Brothers a New Type Of 'All ...PolicyMic
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Huffington Post
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers, have been identified by authorities as the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. Details are emerging about them online and from interviews with family and neighbors -- but there's little to explain how they wound up as suspects in a terrorist attack.
Liana Woskie told The Huffington Post that she went to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was in his high school graduating class of '06. He was on the volleyball team, she said.
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Letter to a Foreign Psychiatrist - Psychiatric Times
www.psychiatrictimes.com
Being foreign can be an advantage. Only an outsider sees assumptions that insiders take to be self-evident.
The Psychology of a Boston Marathon Terrorist
National Journal The two brothers actually fit into an emerging trend, according to G.I. Wilson, a retired Marine Corps Reserve officer and militancy expert who specializes in counterterrorism, criminal behavior andforensic psychology. “Terrorists are not psychotics ... and more » |
Key developments in Boston bombings investigation
CNN Law enforcement personnel swarm the campus, which is located just west of New Bedford and about 60 miles south of Boston. -- Numerous activities scheduled for Friday night are canceled around ... Dzhokar Tsarnaev's friends expressed shock about his ... and more » |
Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing; Current and Future Worldwide ...
Power Engineering Magazine However, a more radical group might form to inflict more systemic impacts--such as disrupting financial networks--or accidentally trigger unintended consequences that could be misinterpreted as a state-sponsored attack. Cybercriminals also ... However ... and more » |
The cyclingsocialworker on psychiatry, politics, philosophy...and pedalling.
GO Critical Psychology: Contributions to an Historical Science of the Subject Author: Charles W. Tolman, Wolfgang Maiers Type: eBook. Language: English Released: 2006. Publisher: No Page Count: 284. Format: pdf ...
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A strong educational approach, emphasizing critical reflection” – this summarizes Sofia Bunke's opinion of Sport and Exercise Psychology, written by Joanne Thatcher, Melissa Day and Rachel Rahman.
THECYCLINGSOCIALWORKER
The cyclingsocialworker on psychiatry, politics, philosophy...and pedalling.
There are important differences between the antipsychiatry of the 1960s and present-day critical
psychiatry; there are also important points of convergence, but the two nonetheless are quite different. Some of these similarities ...
psychiatry; there are also important points of convergence, but the two nonetheless are quite different. Some of these similarities ...
CHATHURI JAYASOORIYYA
We welcome contributions not just from perspectives of cultural psychology, liberation psychology, or social and political psychology, but also from such related perspectives as community psychology, critical psychology, ...
The quality of the psychological services offered at the school is clearly of critical importance. Find out whether the school has a Counseling and Psychological Services (sometimes referred to as “CAPS”) office or its ...
 Medscape |
Novel, Effective Antidepressant Still Not Ready for Prime Time
Medscape With most antidepressants taking weeks to have effect, the availability of a novel, rapid-acting antidepressant could be of critical value to patients with severe, treatment-resistant depression, but Dr. Murrough cautioned that the understanding of ... |
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Don't let self-criticism run and ruin your life By Robert Taibbi, L.C.S.W....
DUNCAN DOUBLE (NOREPLY@BLOGGER.COM)
As the paper also points out, "The GRM3 gene has been investigated in bipolar affective disorder as part of several genome-wide association studies (GWASs) but failed to reach genome-wide significance in any of these investigations." Still research goes on with this gene because it is assumed the failure to find genetic association is "probably the result of the presence of low-frequency disease alleles and the high degree of etiologic genetic heterogeneity". Actually it's more likely that there's no genetic link.
I haven't forgotten Hugh Gurling's false claim in Nature in 1988 that he'd found strong evidence for the involvement of a single gene on chromosome 5 in the causation of schizophrenia. Jeremy Laurance shouldn't be so easily taken in by claims for so-called personalised (actually there's nothing personal about it in the sense of relating to patients) psychiatry.
Critical psychiatry. Critical comment and debate about psychiatry. Saturday, April 13, 2013. Clutching at genetic straws for ... Critical psychiatry website links. Articles critical of psychiatry · Book recommendations. Followers. Follow by Email ...
 Blogcritics.org (blog) |
Book Review: Humanizing Psychiatrists by Niall McLaren, M.D.
Blogcritics.org (blog) Humanizing Psychiatrists also has many valid points, although its approach is more critical and somewhat mocking of the profession to the point where it may be off-putting to readers and even offensive to some. That said, if readers can look past ... |
Evolution Marketing Research Grows its Practice with Addition of Three Key ...
PR Newswire (press release) Earlier in his career, Fureman supported research and training initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Psychiatry Department. ... As Field Coordinator, Sesa leverages her strong skills related to pharmaceutical research and project management ... |
NEW SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY BLOG
The New School: Critical Psychology. Reporting, commentaries and opinion pieces on current events, politics, arts, media and contemporary issues viewed through a critical psychological lens.
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NEW SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY BLOG
The New School: Critical Psychology. Reporting, commentaries and opinion pieces on current events, politics, arts, media and contemporary issues viewed through a critical psychological lens.
Wage Theft in the US
UC Los Angeles Annette Stanton, UCLA professor of psychology and of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, was interviewed Friday on BBC Radio about expressive writing, a therapeutic technique that involves writing about one's emotions to improve one's health ... |
German Center for Forensic Psychiatry Relies on Intelligent Ascom Technology
Business Wire (press release) At the core of our service offering is the creation of added value for the customer through the support and optimization of his mission-critical processes. Customers include the health care system (hospitals, psychiatric facilities), the manufacturing ... |
The Devil in History
FrontPage Magazine Initially, I was attracted, like so many in my generation, to neo-Marxist, or humanist Marxist theories, including the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory. Later .... Marx failed to comprehend humanpsychology, or, better said, the human soul. A great ... |
William Newsome to co-chair $100 million brain-research initiative
The Stanford Daily Two of these members — Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics Mark Schnitzer and Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Karl Deisseroth Ph.D. '98 M.D. '00 M.F. '03 — are also from Stanford. The committee has ... |
 NJ.com (blog) |
Gay therapy is not just sticks and stones: Opinion
NJ.com (blog) As a psychiatric expert critical of sexual conversion “therapies,” I understand the editorial board's concerns. I even shared similar views with a Star-Ledger reporter last fall after California passed its own ban. I was skeptical about legislation as ... and more » |
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 Boston Globe |
Victims of explosions are facing a long road ahead
Boston Globe As of Tuesday night, 70 of the injured remained in Boston hospitals, 24 of them in critical condition. In the months and years ahead, ... She plans to attend Middlesex Community College in the fall and wants to study psychology. She survived one major ... and more » |
 TIME |
The Boston Bombings: Peculiar Benefits of the 9/11 Wars
TIME “The field of disaster psychiatry and disaster mental health has progressed immensely since 9/11,” says Elspeth “Cam” Ritchie, who before retiring as an Army colonel in 2010 spent her final years in uniform as the service's top psychiatrist. Instead of ... and more » |
Optimism can lead to unrealistic voter expectations in elections - PhysOrg.com
Phys.Org To better understand what fuels voter optimism, Krizan and Kate Sweeny, a psychology professor at the University of California-Riverside, led a study published online in Psychological Science to see how voter expectations changed in the month leading ... |
Mind-body duality outdated
Toronto Star Mr. Lungo did recognize that cyberbullying is harmful; but he made what he called the “critical” distinction that it “primarily relates to conduct that harmfully affects the psyche, and not the person.” In doing this, he displayed his adherence to the ... |
Dealing With CyberBullies
Mesquite Citizen Journal Bullying cannot be solved by law or psychology or medication. Our children require ... These women are trying to educate us to the fact two parents, alone cannot get the critical job accomplished of raising a well rounded child safely into adulthood ... and more » |
The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is ...
Truth-Out The development of psychology, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines increasingly portrayed the “public” and the population as irrational beings incapable of making their own decisions. The premise was simple: if the population was driven by dangerous ... |
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Integration of alternative therapies shows promise in PTSD treatment
Healio “Integrating [complementary and alternative medicine] therapies with sound evidence-based practice allows the provider to tailor treatments to the needs of their individual patients,” study researcher Lt. Cmdr. Paul D. Sargent, MD, told Psychiatric ... |
Relationship expert gives couples tips to strengthen bond
The Desert Sun Campbell, who is also an assistant professor of psychology at Cal State San Bernardino, is fascinated by the factors that keep couples together. Love is also a subject of her research, looking at how feelings of euphoria amplifies or curtails ... |
Thomson Reuters Identifies 100 Key Scientific Research Fronts
Wall Street Journal Specifically, the effects of climate change are present in the areas of Agricultural, Plant and Animal Sciences; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Geosciences; and, Economics, Psychology and other Social Sciences. Data from Thomson ... We combine ... and more » |
 PolicyMic |
What Makes a Terrorist Terrorize?
PolicyMic “The popular image of the terrorist as an individual motivated exclusively by deep and intransigent political commitment obscures a more complex reality,” explains Dr. Martha Crenshaw of Stanford University in a report, Psychology of Terrorism ... |
KAZAKHSTAN: Imprisoned atheist mad, bad, or neither?
Forum 18 Imprisoned atheist Aleksandr Kharlamov is due to undergo a second officially-ordered psychiatricexamination since his 14 March arrest, as Kazakhstan's prosecutors seek to jail him on criminal charges of "inciting religious hatred". He rejects the ... |
Psychologists and Torture: Accountability Still Awaits
OpEdNews Included as well is a critical appraisal of the American Psychological Association's 2005 "PENS Report" on psychological ethics and national security. The Report on Detainee Treatment notes that the PENS Task Force, while asserting that it is ethical ... |
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 The National Law Journal |
The Importance of Storytelling as a Tool in the Practice of Law - Law.com
The National Law Journal Numerous other disciplines, from neuroscience to psychology to literature, have focused their attention on these issues, and have much to teach about why certain tales matter more than others. The findings of these studies would allow us to better ... |
The Huge Mistake Apple Investors Are Making
Motley Fool Whenever you draw an arbitrary line in the sand for a particular financial metric such as a stock price or index level, you're anchoring your perspective on that stock to your chosen number, even if it's based on nothing other than psychology ... and more » |
 The People's Voice |
Bush and Obama: Dangerous Narcissists - The Peoples Voice
The People's Voice In 2005, Professor Psychiatry Justin Frank headlined "Bush on the Couch." He traced his character development from childhood through the |
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Sleeping on it helps memories stick
Futurity: Research News Delphine Oudiette, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Northwestern University and lead author of the study, designed the experiment to study how participants remembered locations of objects on a computer screen. A value assigned ... |
Means, at the Ends of Ethics
Huffington Post (blog) There are challenges related to tradeoffs between beneficial and adverse effects, particularly with high-risk surgical and critical care procedures. In this context, the question of ends justifying means comes up ... Psychology experiments famously ... |
 The Atlantic Cities |
Boston Is One of the Best Prepared US Cities to Handle a Crisis
The Atlantic Cities The most serious casualties were distributed among area hospitals, a technique known to optimizecritical care during disaster events. Boston Marathon medical tents set up for fatigued runners were transformed within minutes .... "Government agencies ... |
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Fear Shuts Down Boston
Huffington Post Yet another critical aspect of risk perception psychology playing out in this incredible moment is the importance of trust, and in that sense, the overreaction of law enforcement and the military is a good thing, not only now but down the road. We can ... and more » |
The huge mistake Apple investors are making - ninemsn
Ninemsn Whenever you draw an arbitrary line in the sand for a particular financial metric such as a stock price or index level, you're anchoring your perspective on that stock to your chosen number, even if it's based on nothing other than psychology ... and more » |
 TIME |
Brothers in Arms: Sibling Psychology and the Bombing Suspects
TIME Proximity is a critical element in what psychologists call “delinquency training” among siblings. This is true for lower-grade risk behaviors like smoking or drinking, since a younger sibling, who typically picks up the habit later than an older one ... Bomb Suspects Now Mysterious to Those Who Thought They Knew ThemBloomberg Boston Marathon Manhunt: Are the Tsarnaev Brothers a New Type Of 'All ...PolicyMic all 5,326 news articles » |
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers, have been identified by authorities as the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. Details are emerging about them online and from interviews with family and neighbors -- but there's little to explain how they wound up as suspects in a terrorist attack.
Liana Woskie told The Huffington Post that she went to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was in his high school graduating class of '06. He was on the volleyball team, she said.
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Liana Woskie told The Huffington Post that she went to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School with Tamerlan Tsarnaev and was in his high school graduating class of '06. He was on the volleyball team, she said.
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We've all heard of a mid-life crisis, yet the quarter-life crisis may not be quite so well-known. However, according to research, the majority of twenty- and thirty-somethings will face one.
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When I moved into my current apartment, I was moving in with my other half. We'd been dating for some time and had decided to take that bold step many couples make and simply move in together. We found an apartment, small and slightly dingy though it may appear, that suited our needs. As the only women in the building we felt a little odd. Surely people would see on the tenant board the information about two women living together and assume we were a couple.
Not too long after moving day, my partner met the man in the flat above in the hallway. They ended up speaking briefly and he invited us to both head up for tea and coffee later that day. With only £20 to our name at the time we were delighted. Heading upstairs I met him for the first time. He seemed a friendly enough neighbour to have and so we sat down and began speaking. Since he and I both have facial piercings we started on the topic of body modification. My partner made a comment about how I didn't want her to get any sort of facial piercings because I find her to have such a classically beautiful face.
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Not too long after moving day, my partner met the man in the flat above in the hallway. They ended up speaking briefly and he invited us to both head up for tea and coffee later that day. With only £20 to our name at the time we were delighted. Heading upstairs I met him for the first time. He seemed a friendly enough neighbour to have and so we sat down and began speaking. Since he and I both have facial piercings we started on the topic of body modification. My partner made a comment about how I didn't want her to get any sort of facial piercings because I find her to have such a classically beautiful face.
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