Exporting trauma: can the talking cure do more harm than good?

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Click Here to Read:  Exporting trauma: can the talking cure do more harm than good? When disaster strikes aid agencies are increasingly focusing on mental health as well as food and shelter. But without cultural understanding, pushing western treatment can do damage. Cue the rise of the humanitarian anthropologist … by Anna Leach on the Guardian Website on February 5, 2015.

Grammys 2015: Transcript of Bob Dylan’s MusiCares Person of Year speech

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Click Here to  Read: Grammys 2015: Transcript of Bob Dylan’s MusiCares Person of Year speech by Randall Roberts on the Los Angeles Times Music Blog on February 7, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Bob Dylan, Extending the Line BY David Remick on The New Yorker blog in February 08. 2015.

Former President Jimmy Carter introduces Bob Dylan as the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year with Neil Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, during the MusiCares concert at the Convention Center. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

MLK’s Greatness Wasn’t in His Dreams, but in His Ability To Seize the Moment

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Click Here to Read:  MLK’s Greatness Wasn’t in His Dreams, but in His Ability To Seize the Moment: Why Hollywood gets social movements wrong: They are not the work of messy, failed organizations or misbegotten armies By Todd Gitlin on the Tablet website on February 6, 2015.

Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon Johnson and David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr., in a still from Ada DuVernay’s ‘Selma.’(Atsushi Nishijima/Paramount Pictures)

R U There?: A new counselling service harnesses the power of the text message

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Click Here to Read:  R U There?: A new counselling service harnesses the power of the text message By Alice Gregory in The New Yorker Magazine in the February 9, 2015 issue.

Crisis Text Line has received five million texts, providing a unique corpus of data.

Credit illustration by Cristiana Coucerio; Photographs: Top to Bottom: Nick Vaccaro / the Image Bank / Getty; Anna Eckold / Moment / Getty; Atsushi Yamada / Photodisc /Getty