Click here to read “Scientists set to show how they hacked into Stephen Hawking’s brain” by Alan Boyle from Cosmic Log on msnbc.com on June 25, 2012.
Shades of Psychopathy and Ambition Run Amok
Evolution and Our Inner Conflict
On Reality Testing
LSD, Ecstasy, and a Blast of Utopianism: How 1967’s “Summer of Love” All Began
Click here to read “Suddenly That Summer” by Sheila Weller from July 2012’s Vanity Fair.
It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers behind the Haight-Ashbury happening that turned America on to a whole new age?
A handshake across a chasm of hate
Click here to read “A handshake across a chasm of hate” by Kevin Cullen from The Boston Globe on June 23, 2012.
As far as handshakes go, Martin McGuinness pumping the arm of Queen Elizabeth II is one of those “I never thought I’d see that” moments. Not that you will see it. It’s probably going to happen behind closed doors at a charity event in Belfast next week. Still, that it will happen at all is a reminder of how history moves in real time, despite its tendency to repeat itself.
Slum Children in Brazil: How they feel about Parents
Click here to read “Playing with Brazilian Street Children: a pilot study using narrative story stem” by Dr. M. Leticia Castrechini F. Franieck; Prof. Dr. Michael Günter University of Tübingen-Germany.
Dr. Franieck has been studying three groups of Brazilian slum children: homeless street kids; those in shanties and those living away from their abusive families. In a poignant study, she shows how these children remain emotionally connected (for better and worse) to their parents. She uses the MacArthur story-telling technique. Bear with the methodology, as what she has to teach us about disenfranchised children is valuable.
(This was presented at the 2012 World Association of Infant Mental Health meeting in South Africa.)
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
