Nov 20 2011
How do you spell relief? D-I-S-C-L-O-S-U-R-E
Therapists and clients alike understand the relief provided by the disclosure of sad, angry, fearful memories. Therapy is a place where people should feel safe enough to disclose anything they choose, significant or insignificant.
In dysfunctional families or organizations, people are often exposed to behavior which shocks
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Nov 13 2011
Examining the religious right wing activism defending catholic clergy sex abusers and the response of the church, it’s pretty easy to understand why Joe Paterno didn’t do anything to protect the children being raped by Jerry Sandusky.
He’s Joe Paterno and probably feels entitled to do whatever he wants, just like Bill Donohue, Bishop Finn of Kansas City, the catholic pope, and the entire catholic church hierarchy.
Bill Donohue, Executive Director of Catholic League Center for Religious and Civil Rights,
Apr 20 2011
A key question in the recovered memory debate is whether it’s possible for someone to forget traumatic abuse and then remember it later, sometimes decades later.
If you want to move ahead and study some of the research validating this forgetting and remembering process, go to the following websites:
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Nov 05 2009
Read about it here.
Nov 05 2009
Read his article here.
If you carefully evaluate the structure of his words and sentences, you will see that he is appealing to the ultra conservative, wealthy Americans who probably hate people on welfare.
Ray takes some very, very cheap shots at people on welfare, as well as people who are sick, need healthcare, or obese.
To him, these are all lazy people
Nov 05 2009
Would you stay in a sweat lodge where people around you are vomiting, passing out, and you are beginning to feel yourself losing consciousness?
It’s easy for us to say “no”, but people just as smart as us did not out in Arizona. Three of them died, and almost half of the other participants became very ill.
Mind control. These people weren’t taken into a room and hypnotized. They still had the ability to think and make decisions.
Nov 05 2009
You may know by now the police are treating the three deaths in the Arizona sweat lodge led by James Arthur Ray as homicides.
Ray is not a licensed therapist of any kind, so he did not have the help of any professional ethical code to guide his behavior.
Whether he will ultimately be viewed as a huckster operating a sweat lodge wildly out of control or a thoughtful professional who led an experience where three people were killed accidentally remains to be seen.
There seems to be a lot of evidence right now pointing to the former possibility. Here are just a few of the ethical principals (see NASW Code Ethics) he may have violated:
Also, here are a few ethical standards which he may have violated:
Based on the information gathered from police, participants, James Arthur Ray and his
Jun 20 2009
There are many psychologists and other behavioral health professionals concerned about the use of torture by the United States during the last decade. For a 10 minute video by Roy Eidelson, PhD., President-Elect, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, summarizing these concerns, click here.
Apr 14 2009
Ok, making the symbolism easy, Pat Bowlen and Josh McDaniels represent the shallow, narcissistic leaders in our world who have been exposed as the “emperors without clothes!”
I have really enjoyed this story. Just as McDaniels and Bowlen have been trying to manipulate Jay Cutler, treating him slightly less than a piece of property,
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