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Empty Chairs is a recently released narrative nonfiction by Stacey Danson that you can purchase here. User discretion is advised as it is a chilling tale of the author’s prostitution by her mother from infancy, and her struggle to escape and survive the horrific effects of childhood sexual abuse. The [...]
This weekend at Emory University we are hosting the Global Health and Humanitarianism Summit (GHHS). Organized by Neil Shulman MD there are over 1000 people from around the world who are presenting on a wide range of topics related to volunteering and humanism in healthcare. You can view the program here.
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The GHHS will be held at Emory University School of Medicine April 1-3, 1648 Pierce Dr. Atlanta, GA 30322. It is free and open to the public. Parking is available at the Emory Clinic across the street. You can read more about it and see the program here.
I will be talking about [...]
Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News Blog will know that my mother died in 1966 when I was about five years old. What they may not know is that I have had an on again off again problem with smoking, which might seem quite hypocritical given that I wrote a book called [...]
I am giving 3 talks @ Tucson 10/22 ‘Freud Meets Buddha’ mindfulness treatment of PTSD, depression and heart disease, and ‘Before You Take That Pill’ – focus on psychotropic meds. Click here to register.
NYU has acquired the archives of so-called “artist” Larry Rivers who filmed his daughters naked while they were growing up, including the time when they developed breasts. When they complained he told them that they were bad daughters and uptight. This douchebag was apparently big on the beat artist and NYC circuit. Her mother [...]
Back in 1999 I was asked to write an editorial for the American Journal of Psychiatry about a group of articles in the journal on Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). Prior versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) had a PTSD, acute (less than one month) and chronic types. The DSM-IV dropped the acute [...]
This rather chowder-headed article (“PTSD has Unreliable Diagnostic Criteria”) by David Wilson and Peter Barglow has several weak points that I thought I would address. First of all the use of the term “Unreliable”.
There is an article in this week’s JAMA on the evidence that much of adult physical illness could be prevented through the elimination of childhood abuse.
Last week I was in Nashville and flew back on my birthday and reflected on that experience, and got some feedback from others. At the time I was reflecting on some memories from my childhood that weren’t that great, and at the time I simply allowed myself to feel sorry for myself and feel the feelings that were associated with the experiences I had had, as I perceived them.
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