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Marc Estrin : The Far-Reaching Effects of Child Abuse
Image from PsychCentral.Child abuse:Here, there, and likely everywhere By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / August 15, 2010 There have been several large studies on the effects of occupation — bombing, physical injury, house demolitions, tear gassing, house searches, … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Abuse, Marc Estrin, Military, Palestinian Occupation, Psychology, Science
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Jonah Raskin : BP’s Silent Siren and our Nation of Sleepwalkers
Sleep Walkers by Thomas Fedro, c. 2009 / Art for Art’s Sake.Silent siren: Symbol for our somnambulant age By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2010 Americans have been distracting themselves to death for decades. They’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, British Petroleum, Jonah Raskin, Oil Spill, Psychology
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Robert Jensen : Coping With Anguish
Art from toonpool.Struggling to be ‘fully alive’:Reports on coping with anguish By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / July 12, 2010 I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t been said many times over the centuries. That may have … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Global Crisis, Psychology, Robert Jensen, Social Change
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BOOKS / Dick J. Reavis on ‘The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains’
A worrisome message from Nicholas Carr:What The Shallows means for the left By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / July 10, 2010 [The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (Norton, 2010; Hardcover, … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Books, Cognition, Communications, Dick J. Reavis, Education, Ideology, Internet, Knowledge, Print Media, Psychology, The Left
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Robert Jensen : Emotional Reactions to Collapse
Anguish. Image from Fixing My Life.The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / June 26, 2010 We live amidst multiple crises — economic and political, cultural and ecological — that pose … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Global Crisis, Psychology, Robert Jensen, Social Change
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Psychology of Greed : Protecting the People from Wall Street
A rebuttal of sorts:Protecting the people from Wall Street By Steven Porter / The Rag Blog / April 23, 2010 [On April 21, The Rag Blog published an article by Sherman DeBrosse entitled Republican Jujitsu : Protecting Wall Street from … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Financial Reform, Greed, Psychology, Steven Porter, Wall Street
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Scientists : Dolphins are ‘Non-Human Persons’
Bottlenose dolphin Delphin and her baby Dolly at a zoo in Duisburg, western Germany. Photo by AP.Behavior studies:Dolphins are second smartest animal ‘The neuroanatomy suggests psychological continuity between humans and dolphins and has profound implications for the ethics of human-dolphin … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Behavior, Dolphins, Intelligence, Psychology, Scientific Research, Zoology
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PTSD Meds: Killing Soldiers When the Battle’s Over
Veterans’ families question cause of deaths: Post-traumatic stress syndrome treatment citedBy Julie Robinson / March 1, 2009 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Stan and Shirley White’s son Andrew, a Marine reservist, died at home 2 1/2 years after he returned from Iraq. … Continue reading
Medical Study on Psilocybin : Lasting Positive Effects
‘Shrooms.Heck, they could have just asked us… Magic Mushrooms produce long-termsense of well-beingBy John Lazarou / July 1, 2008 In a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in “sacred mushrooms,” produces substantial spiritual effects, a Johns Hopkins … Continue reading
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Tagged Clinical Studies, Drugs, Flora, Hallucinogens, Medical Studies, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Psychology, Science
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The World We have Known is Vanishing Before Our Eyes
Recession, Depression, Collapse: What’s Fear Got To Do With It?By Carolyn Baker / April 13, 2008 Interesting, isn’t it, that mainstream economists need a so-called economic guru like Alan Greenspan to confirm that the U.S. economy is in recession? If … Continue reading
