Torture in American Prisons
08/10/2007
Via Automatic Preference. Axé.
On Reeducation: Other Researchers Speak
08/10/2007
Psychofraud Quotation #1: CBT relies on a patient buying the therapist’s perspective of the patient. Good psychotherapy exists where the opposite happens: psychotherapists are trained to understand the patient’s perspective. In CBT the patient must therefore be ‘socialised’ [made to believe in and comply with] the CBT model in order for it to have any … More On Reeducation: Other Researchers Speak
Visiting with da Whiteman
08/10/2007
WM: Do you think A caused B, which, as we know, is causing C? Do you think we might still be vulnerable to the same error we made when we chose A? Do we need to consider the underlying causes which may have impelled us to choose A? Z: I think A may have been … More Visiting with da Whiteman
Test: Are YOU a Graduate Student?
07/10/2007
From the Mad Nowhere Woman, via Kiita. I am guilty of the bolded items. Bold and in italics means I have been guilty of these activities in the past, but given them up. YOU MIGHT BE A GRADUATE STUDENT IF: you can analyze the significance of appliances you cannot operate; you have ever, as a … More Test: Are YOU a Graduate Student?
Charting Seas
07/10/2007
Now I have sent a proposal to a conference in the correct way for the first time in a long time. I came across a CFP for a conference I am interested in, wrote a proposal cut from something I am actually working on, and sent it off. I have given more conference papers than … More Charting Seas
Cornel West: To Be a Leftist in the 21st Century
07/10/2007
I Now listen to the second part of West’s discussion, and the third. Via Qlipoth. I also like this lecture of Cornel’s, given at Brown University earlier this year. I would like to have it on CD, to listen to while driving. II In other radical Sunday news, I have discovered a new career alternative: … More Cornel West: To Be a Leftist in the 21st Century
On Perpetrator Mentality
07/10/2007
I Much is said of the “victim mentality” but I have rarely met anyone who had it, and those who did were primarily privileged individuals who felt entitled to even more. I think the fiction of the “victim mentality” as a characteristic of victims is a tool of those who would have us excuse perpetrators … More On Perpetrator Mentality
Pourquoi on n’avance pas
06/10/2007
On n’avance pas, et ce n’est pas de notre faute. From Another Conflict Theorist: [T]here exists a wealth of information that examines race and gender disparities in the workplace and how they are maintained. Recently, I read a fantastic article about emotional labor and sex segregation entitled, “Women’s Job, Men’s Jobs.” The authors of the … More Pourquoi on n’avance pas
Chris Dodd: The Differences are Real
06/10/2007
It is my intention to vote for Dennis Kucinich in the Democratic primary if he is still a candidate by the time the primary comes here. I would like to underline that Clinton, Edwards and Obama all equivocate on the possiblity of our leaving Iraq. For this reason I will vote for none of them … More Chris Dodd: The Differences are Real
On G.I. Education Benefits
05/10/2007
I work in Louisiana. I can tell for many reasons, one of which is that today on the way to the library I crossed the path of a female administrator who waved, smiled, and said, “Hey, Sugar!” When I walked into the first class I ever taught in Louisiana I was somewhat taken aback to … More On G.I. Education Benefits
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