Click Here to Read: Redefining Mental Illness by T.M. Lurhmann in The New York Times on January 17, 2015.

Click Here to Read:  The Power of a Circle: Standing Hand-in-Hand to Overcome Discrimination Listen to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1958 speech at my synagogue, and you’ll understand how his words continue to inspire activism By Ellen Blum Barish on the Tablet Website on January 14, 2015.

Click Here to Read: A Call to Arms: The Future of Psychiatry is at Stake by Robert Berezin, MD on the Mad in America website on January 12, 2015.

Click Here to Read:  The threat to France’s Jews: Last week’s attacks have stoked fears among the Jewish community at a time when increasing numbers are leaving. What does it mean for France? Natasha Lehrer in The Guardian on January 15, 2015.

A Jewish school under guard in Paris. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Click Here to Read: What Your Shrink’s Office Says About You by Oliver Jones on The Daily Beast on January 16, 2015.

Photo Credit: Dr. Mark Gerald

Click Here to Read: Charlie Hebdo and Group Regression: Mental cultures of idolatry and satire. by Molly S. Castelloe, Ph.D. in her The Me in We blog on the Psychology Today blogs on January 12, 2015.

Charlie Hebdo,” by Egyptian cartoonist Doaa Eladl
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Click Here to Read:  Theory Finds That Individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome Don’t Lack Empathy – in Fact If Anything They Empathize Too Much by Jade Small on the Open Mind website on January 9, 2015.

Click Here To Read: Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy By Max Fisher in The Washington Post on October 22, 2013.

Japanese women walk down a Tokyo shopping street. (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

Click Here to Read:  Downton Abbey: A rose-tinted depiction of class relations By Paul Mitchell on the World Social Web Site on January 14, 2015.

Click Here to Read: Psychohistory News: Newsletter of the International  Psychohistorical Association: Volume 34, Number 1 – Winter 2015.