10 Ways Mental Health Professionals Increase Misery in Suffering People. Decreasing suffering often means “comforting the afflicted, and afflicting the comfortable.”
However, AlterNet’s recently republished Psychotherapy Networker article, “The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People,” authored by psychotherapist Cloe Madanes, instead appears to have afflicted many of the afflicted. Perhaps Madanes was attempting to afflict those comfortable enough to afford her and her professional partner Tony Robbins, but that comfortable group excludes many readers. Anarchy and Organization: The Debate at the 1907 International Anarchist Congress.
In Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, I included excerpts from the historic debate between Errico Malatesta and Pierre Monatte on revolutionary syndicalism at the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam.
Also debated at the Congress was the relationship between anarchism and organization. How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World. "It's on the left," he says.
"No, it's southeast of here," she says. iStockphoto hide caption itoggle caption iStockphoto "It's on the left," he says. "No, it's southeast of here," she says. iStockphoto Lera Boroditsky once did a simple experiment: She asked people to close their eyes and point southeast. She says the difference lies in language. If you want to learn another language and become fluent, you may have to change the way you behave in small but sometimes significant ways, specifically how you sort things into categories and what you notice. Researchers are starting to study how those changes happen, says Aneta Pavlenko, a professor of applied linguistics at Temple University. Meet the Punk Rocker Who Can Liberate Your FBI File. Ryan ShapiroStephanie Crumley Ryan Shapiro has just wrapped up a talk at Boston's Suffolk University Law School, and as usual he's surrounded by a gaggle of admirers.
The crowd, consisting of law students, academics, and activist types, is here for a panel discussion on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law targeting activists whose protest actions lead to a "loss of profits" for industry. Shapiro, a 37-year-old Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, contributed a slideshow of newspaper headlines, posters, and government documents from as far back as the 1800s depicting animal advocates as a threat to national security.
Now audience members want to know more about his dissertation and the archives he's using. On cynicism, calling out, and creating movements that don’t leave our people behind. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the ways that the movements for social justice of which I am a part deal with mistakes folks make publicly.
I’ve been thinking and talking with my friends about how quickly we shun and publicly shame our folks that are in a different place from us politically, how our cynicism is serving to limit us. And then Ngọc Loan Trần at Black Girl Dangerous gave us Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable: We have to let go of treating each other like not knowing, making mistakes, and saying the wrong thing make it impossible for us to ever do the right things.And we have to remind ourselves that we once didn’t know.
On Prisons, Borders, Safety, and Privilege: An Open Letter to White Feminists. April 3, 2008 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. There is no role for the white liberal [in social change]; he is our affliction. -James Baldwin, 1963. In 1983, when I was in kindergarten, white (Jewish) lesbian feminist Adrienne Rich implored a white-led feminist movement: "Without addressing the whiteness of white feminism, our movement will turn in on itself and collapse. " My comments here are hugely influenced by critiques of white feminism put forth over generations by women of color,[2] critiques I'm guessing you're familiar with. Yet it doesn't look to me like you've really reckoned with those critiques. Pregnancy And Abortion Rates For U.S. Teens At All-Time Low (And Not Because Of Abstinence)
With shows like “Teen Mom” and “16 and Pregnant,” it’s easy to see how people have come to conclusion that teen pregnancy is on the rise.
It’s not. In fact, teen pregnancy has been on a decline for over a decade, and this month a new report by the Centers for Disease Control found that pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates in U.S. teens is at the lowest rates ever recorded. The teen birth rate hit its highest point in 1991, but has been falling ever since. This trend is nearly identical for pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates. Far from the conservative nightmare scenario of greater access to abortion serving as a quick and easy way to terminate unwanted pregnancies, the data suggests that – as experts have been saying for years – abortion falls as pregnancy does. This is great news because teen pregnancy has very little upside. Research compiled by Planned Parenthood found that teenagers who have children face unique medical and economic challenges: What Isn’t Working.