The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness

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Click Here to Read:  The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness  By Ethan Watters  on the Pacific Standard website on June 3, 2013 .

In the 1880s, women by the tens of thousands displayed the distinctive signs of hysteria: convulsive fits, facial tics, spinal irritation, sensitivity to touch, leg paralysis. (ILLUSTRATION: MICHELLE THOMPSON)

 

Heading Into the ‘I’ of the Knaidel Controversy Over Yiddish Spelling Bee Word Misses the Point

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Click Here to Read:  Heading Into the ‘I’ of the Knaidel Controversy Over Yiddish Spelling Bee Word Misses the Point  By Philologos on The Jewish Daily Forward website on June 16, 2013.

Spelling Trouble: 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali won this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee and uncorked a linguistic debate.

Click Here to Read:  Knaidel/Kneydl and other posts on this issue on this website.