Click Here to Read:  Sinhabahu the Paradigmatic myth of the Sri Lankan Oedipus By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge on December 23rd, 2010.

Army Sets New Calendar Year Record For Soldier Suicides from American Psychiatric Association Headlines:

According to the current edition of the Army Times  (12/27), the US Army “has set a new calendar year record for soldier suicides — with one month still to count.” By the end of the year, the “2010 suicide rate will be more than 10 percent more than last year and as much as three times the rate in 2006.” The Times adds that through November of this year, “127 non-active-duty Guard and Reserve soldiers killed themselves, compared to 80 such suicides in all of 2009.” Continue reading Army Sets New Calendar Year Record For Soldier Suicides

Click Here to Read: Don’t let this happen to you: 6 tips to surviving a stressful Christmas By Joe Miller in the Charlotte Observer on December. 20, 2010.

In “Surviving Christmas,” not even the money he was paying a family to be his kin on Christmas could save Ben Affleck, right, from the wrath of James Gandolfini. He should have taken tip no. 5 below: Watch for signs of stress (such as grabbing a snow shovel).

Click Here to Read:  Beside Freud’s Couch, a Chow Named Jofi by Melinda Beck in the Wall Street Journal on December 21, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  Mental Health Needs Seen Growing at Colleges
By Trip Gabriel in the New York Times on December 19, 2010.

CRISES AND PREVENTION Judy Esposito, a social worker with experience counseling Sept. 11 widows, started a triage unit at Stony Brook to help with mental health issues. Another program recruits students to help their peers.

Click Here to Read: How Our Brains Threaten Democracy: The Logic Behind Self-Delusion By Stephen Dufrechou on the Seismoblog website on December 13, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  The Morning After: Psych! by James Poniewozik In Time magazine on December 8, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  A Glimpse into the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Closet by Jack Drescher  on the Huffington Post website on December 3, 2010.

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