Click Here to Read: Dream On by Alec Wilkinson in The New Yorker on October 28, 2013.
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Category: General News
Mental health in prisons: It’s a crime
Click Here to Read: Mental health in prisons: It’s a crime. With nowhere else to turn, prisons are stepping up to the challenge of treating mentally ill offenders by Jonathan Martin in the Seattle Times on October 19, 2013.
Offenders in the Intensive Management Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex sit in a class chained to their desks. Twice a week, offenders are let out of solitary for hours of cognitive behavior therapy classes.
On narcissism: the mirror and the self
Click Here to Read: On narcissism: the mirror and the self People from Tiger Woods to the Obamas are routinely denounced for their narcissism. But what does the word really mean and are there good as well as bad types of self-love? On the New Statesman website on August 2, 2013.
A rounded image: but modern culture is solipsistic, fixed on looking inward at our own preoccupations. Photo: Fleur van Dodewaard, part of the ‘Sun Set Series’ (2011)
After diagnosis, some keep their cancer a secret
Click Here to Read: After diagnosis, some keep their cancer a secret By Diane Mapes on the TODAY website on October 20. 2013.
When Melanie Young was first diagnosed with cancer, she decided to keep her diagnosis a secret from her work colleagues. Here, she smiles on a celebratory trip to France, one year after finishing treatment, in September 2010.
Why We Make Bad Decisions
Eric Kandel: Unconscious Decision Making
Name it, got it
Capitol Hill Shooting: Child Unharmed?
Haunted by a Child’s Illness
‘Bad negotiators’: Experts say Congress is getting it wrong in fiscal talks
Click Here to Read: ‘Bad negotiators’: Experts say Congress is getting it wrong in fiscal talks By Carrie Dann on the NBC News website on October 16. 2013.
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, right, look at their notes during a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in July.