Click Here to Read: The Lure of the Gold Coast; Wealthy Chinese Buyers Head to New York’s Suburbs By Julie Satow in The New York Times on February 6, 2015.
A house at the Estates at Green Fields in Old Brookville, N.Y., a development designed with Chinese buyers in mind. Indeed, the house above was snapped up by a Chinese buyer. CreditKathy Kmonicek for The New York Times
Click Here to Read: The Brain’s Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries by Norman Doidge – review Can Parkinson’s be cured by walking, or blindness by ‘higher judo’? These cures and their emphasis on the patient’s willpower and moral fibre are, at best, bizarre by Jonathan Rée on the Guardian Website on January 23, 2014.
Click Here to Read: Repairing the brain: Why we’re living in an age of neuroscience by Clint Michaels in the Independent on February 9, 2015.
Doing away with dogma … Norman Doidge extends his coverage to cures that might seem to border on hocus-pocus. Photograph: Felix Clay
Click Here to Read: Trumbo in Limbo: The blacklisted Dalton Trumbo was as political as he was prolific. But he didn’t blame those who, unlike him, “named names By Edward Kosner in The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 6, 2015.
Dalton Trumbo refusing to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities whether he was a Communist, 1947. PHOTO: CORBIS IMAGES
Dear Colleagues,
Still in the summer mode, the world continues to have it’s interesting news items, ranging from a jury sentencing a man to life imprisonment for killing 9 people, to police officers being arrested and uproar over debates and upcoming presidential primaries in the USA. Meanwhile, Greece is still attempting to recover and N. Korea has decided to move it***s time zone by a half hour, (Really?) while we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Meanwhile our website is brimming with posts related to above and to our own work in our offices and in the community.
Below I list the posts which interested me followed by the entire menu.
My choices:
1) I glanced at the Austen Riggs Center’s events this fall and urge you to consider it – a) there is an on line course: The Y-Model for Teaching Psychotherapy Competencies Continue reading Hiroshima, Austen Riggs, teenage depression, emotions & learning from Sasha Rolde
