To the Editor: I read “ The Modern Asylum ,” by Christine Montross (Op-Ed, Feb. 18), proposing “a new model of long-term psychiatric institutionalization,” with incredulity — both as one who was hospitalized in a...
I am reading Murray Stein's wonderful book, Minding the Self: Jungian Meditations on Contemporary Spirituality , after spending the weekend assisting a sensorimotor psychotherapy training. On first glance, spirituality and...
How can we use brain science to provide effective treatment that builds stronger brains- and have more fun while doing it? These ideas are based on the work of Dr. Bruce Perry www.childtrauma.org. Use rhythmic, repetitive, rewarding activities...
"I have something to give you," she said as she withdrew these rocks from her purse. "Remember when we did that activity with writing the negative things we believed about our self? These are from that activity; I saved them. I've...
Last year, Dave Maass, an investigative researcher for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, found a document on the website of the South Carolina Department of Corrections that listed nearly 400 inmates in the state’s prisons who had...
In two decades as a psychological expert witness for 75 murder cases, James Garbarino, MAT ’70, Ph.D. ’73, never had encountered a scarier defendant. The heavily shackled convict with bulging, tattooed arms was in prison for killing a...
There are many gauges of the depth and breadth of economic inequality, and they often measure what middle-income working people have today against what they had prior to 1980 – that time when homes were affordable, along with doctor...
After decades of building prisons and increasing the number of people behind bars, the pendulum of California’s criminal justice system has swung away from incarceration. Among the policies and laws that are changing the way offenders are...
Some recall getting burned. Others say they've been strangled or attacked by dogs. Many suffer from depression and anxiety. These are only a small sampling of what tens of millions modern slaves endure daily, researchers in London reported...
Babies may get a brain boost in the womb when they hear the voices and heartbeats of their mothers, a new study suggests. Researchers studying premature babies in the hospital found that the sound centers in the babies' brains grew more quickly when...
Approximately 49 million children live in the 100 largest metro areas in the United States—that's two-thirds of America's total under-18 population. But some places are healthier places for children to grow up than others. A new...
Most of our $3 trillion national health care bill is spent on lifestyle diseases. Cancer and diabetes, heart failure and arthritis may come from random changes in the body. But obesity, smoking and inactivity certainly contribute. Health care...
I never thought of my grandfather Harry as someone who lived his life on the cultural or aesthetic cutting edge. He worked his whole adult life as an accountant for New York City, and retired to a ranch house in Plantation, Fla. But he was about 80...
For Whitney Bischoff, high school was tough. On the first day of her freshman year, a childhood friend committed suicide. Things weren't any better at home — her father died when she was 7 and her mom was an alcoholic with an abusive...
Jeffery Bailey spends nearly every day at his public library. It's not just that he loves books. For the 43-year-old who sleeps in a tent outside a local church, the library is pretty much the only place he can go that won't charge him to...