At least this Doc’s Honest: Drugging to Improve Performance:
Front page (where it should be) in today’s NY Times, a pediatrician in rural Georgia promotes stimulants to improve poor children’s school performance…regardless of diagnosis. This pediatrician fesses up that the “diagnosis” is “an excuse…to treat what he considers the chilren’s true ill — Continue reading Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School
Click here to read “What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates” by By George Lakoff from Reader Supported News on October 2, 2012.
I’ve been applying cognitive linguistics and neuroscience to politics in six books over the past two decades. The ideas in those books were on display in many of the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. Look for them in the debates.
Dear Colleagues,
As summer turns to fall and the US elections are overtaking the news and the economists threaten a downward turn, the international psychoanalytic website continues to reflect our world with its ups and downs giving it a professional slant that we should be proud of.
My own choices this week are:
1) Timon & Hamlet – Who/What is Timon? Did you know that Shakespeare wrote Timon – a little known, rarely mentioned & possibly unfinished tragedy – nicely compared & contrasted with Hamlet from the psychological, political and social point of view in a posting this week. Well worth reading.
Click Here to Read This Article Continue reading Hamlet, child abuse, heroism and fragile human brain from Sasha Rolde on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
Click Here to Read: Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic By Reed Abelson, Julie Creswell and Griffin J. Palmer in the New York Times on September 21, 2012.
Robert Burleigh was overbilled for an emergency-room visit because the hospital’s electronic records included examinations he had not been given.
