Click Here to Read: What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? By Ruth H Padawer in The New York Times on August 8, 2012
In Defense of Single Motherhood
“Seven-fold Betrayal”: The Murder of Soviet Yiddish
Managed Behavioral Health Care Just May Shorten Your Life
Beware the Nocebo Effect
All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders
Click Here to Read: Andrew Scull on All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry’s Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders: Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield on August 8th, 2012.
“…whereas thirty years ago less than five percent of Americans were
thought to suffer from an anxiety disorder, nowadays some widely cited
epidemiological studies have decreed that as many as 50 percent of us
do so.”
Tarasoff reporting may increase acts of Homicide: an Economic analysis
Click Here to Read:Doing their duty: An empirical analysis of the unintended effect of Tarasoff v Regents on homicidal activity by Griffin Sims Edwards. Thanks to Paul Mosher for this link.
David Rakoff, 47, Comic Essayist, Dies
The Way Marvin Hamlisch Was
Click Here to Read: The Way Marvin Hamlisch Was: The son of Viennese refugees from Hitler, the gifted, menschy composer wrote the ultimate survivor’s song By Rachel Shukert on The Tablet website August 10, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Marvin Hamlisch, Man of Honors By Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times on August 7, 2012, 9:39.
