Click Here to Read: Obama awards soldier Medal of Honor for 2009 heroics Aamer Madhani on the USA TODAY website on August 26, 2013.
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Military And Veteran Suicides Rise Despite Aggressive Prevention Efforts
Meet the American Banker Who Helped Hitler Loot Jewish Gold—While Spying for the OSS
Click Here to Read: Meet the American Banker Who Helped Hitler Loot Jewish Gold—While Spying for the OSS Thomas McKittrick, head of the Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements, was a key go-between for the Axis and the Allies By Adam LeBor on the Tablet website on August 30, 2013.
Thomas Harrington McKittrick (date unknown) and the BIS headquarters in 1931, in a former hotel in Basel, Switzerland.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original photos courtesy of BIS)
Childhood Maltreatment and Psychopathology Affect Brain Development During Adolescence
Click Here to Read: Abstract from: Childhood Maltreatment and Psychopathology Affect Brain Development During Adolescence by Sarah Whittle, Ph.D. , Meg Dennison, Ph.D., Julian G. Simmons, Ph.D., Murat Yücel, Ph.D., Dan I. Lubman, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., Christos Pantelis, M.D., M.R.C.Psych., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., and Nicholas B. Allen, Ph.D. in The Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 52, Issue 9 , p.. 940-952.e1 July 01, 2013. This article is available for purchase on this site.
Poor people aren’t stupid; bad decisions are from being overwhelmed, study finds
Peter Huttenlocher, Explorer of the Brain, Dies at 82
Review of Steven J. Ellman’s When Theories Touch
Brief review in Oxford Journal of New Books by Dr. Graeme Pedlingham, University of Sussex This follows a section where he reviewed books that dealt with previous analysts,–Bion for example
2. New Explorations in Psychoanalysis: Different Directions Whilst I have made here a distinction between two strands of work published this year based upon their object of discussion, in this section focusing upon works that explore new directions within psychoanalytic discourses, its dissociation from the preceding section is very far from a decisive one. This is evidenced by the firstbook that I turn to, being Steven J. Ellman’s When Theories Touch: A Historical and Theoretical Integration of Psychoanalytic Thought (Karnac Books). This is an extremely ambitious, substantial work, impressive in its Continue reading Review of Steven J. Ellman’s When Theories Touch
Rare Images of the March on Washington, 50 Years Later
Warning: this article involves brain-to-brain interfacing
Click Here to Read: Warning: this article involves brain-to-brain interfacing Remote control by brain is a good internet trick, not a scientific breakthrough. But neuroscience’s real frontiers truly are exciting by Anil Seth on the guardian.com website on August 28, 2013.
Using this information to evoke a movement in another person is rather trivial – the same signal could have been used to turn on the Blackpool Illuminations (above).’ Photograph: Chris Warren/Alamy
Philosophy Thursday: Saul Kripke and Henri Bergson
Click Here to Read: Philosopher, 65, Lectures Not About ‘What Am I?’ but ‘What Is I?’ By Charles McGrath in The New York Times on January 28, 2006.
Click Here to Read: Kripke: “Naming and Necessity” by Marc Cohen.
Click Here to Read: Henri Bergson on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website, First published Tue May 18, 2004; substantive revision Wed May 8, 2013.
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