Murder Most Academic

5/31/11. "Sometimes reality is far in advance of satire when it comes to absurdity...not always funny."

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_2_otbie-homicide-studies.html

Atul Gawande,M.D. Commencement Address, Harvard Medical School, 2011

5/31/11. Nobdy does it better.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/atul-gawande-harvard-medical-school-commencement-address.html

Is Hypersexuality a Psychiatric Disorder?

5/31/11. Some men have their forethought removed.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-psychiatry-roundup-20110523,0,4198997.story

David Brooks: It's Not About You

5/30/11. The hello-how-am-I generation graduates into a world with limits, where losing oneself in family, work, and community is more important than the theology of finding oneself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/opinion/31brooks.html?_r=1

The Feminine Mystique of Hugh Hefner

5/30/11. The world according to the chief boy bunny.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704816604576334342984316906.html

Woody Allen on Inspiration

5/28/11. What's it all about Woody?

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/woody-allen-on-memory?print

James Q. Wilson: Hard Times, Fewer Crimes

5/28/11. Social scientist James Q. Wilson examines the puzzling phenomenon that over the past decade, crime falls while unemployment rises.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576345553135009870.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

David Mamet's Coming Out Party

5/27/11. Coming out of the bubble.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576347110395478634.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop#printMode

Practice Parameters for 30 Child Psychiatric Disorders

5/27/11. From the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/member_information/practice_information/practice_parameters/practice_parameters

Eric Cantor's Remarks to AIPAC - 2011

5/26/11. A leader who understands.

http://majorityleader.gov/newsroom/2011/05/leader-cantors-remarks-to-aipac.html

The 50 Best Science Writers of All Time

5/23/11.

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/05/22/the-50-best-science-writers-of-all-time/

Need Therapy? A Good Man is Hard to Find

5/22/11. The feminization of psychological therapy. Where have all the good men gone?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/health/22therapists.html?_r=1&hp

I am blogging for mental health

This is a day when psychologists around the country are blogging for mental health.

Even in 2011, going to a psychologist carries stigma for too many people in need. There is no reason why mental problems should be less common than physical problems - yet, people can spend lots of time and money treating illusory physical symptoms, and miss symptoms of psychiatric disorders that can be successfully treated.

We live in the best time in human history to get help for psychological distress.

http://www.yourmindyourbody.org/mental-health-month-blog-day-may-18/

Harvey Mansfield: Principles That Don't Change

5/17/11. Remarks on accepting the Bradley Prize.

http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=7127

Beyond Happiness

5/16/11. Psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman revises his ideas on the good life in his book "Flourish."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/science/17tierney.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=all

"Flourish" reviewed in "The Economist:"

http://www.economist.com/node/18678991

Monday Quotations

5/16/11.

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)


"What is hateful to you do not do to your
neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is
commentary."

--- Hillel (60 B.C - A.D. 9)


"I've got Bright's Disease. And he's got mine."

--- S. J. Perelman (1904 - 1979)


"Nowadays, I can't tell the difference between the ringing of the ice cream man's truck and my phone."

--- Steven J. Ceresnie


"This fellow cuts so many corners he's going 'round in circles."

--- Steven J. Ceresnie


"He has a sandpaper personality, he rubs everybody the wrong way."

--- Steven J. Ceresnie


He greeted everybody the same way, "Hello. How am I?"

--- Steven J. Ceresnie

Commit Yourself

5/15/11. Take control now.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/18/commit-yourself/print

The Conversion of David Mamet

5/14/11. David Mamet breaks from the herd and becomes a conservative --- a liberal mugged by reality.*

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/converting-mamet_561048.html

*A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Do Our Genes Decide if We're Kind or Cruel?

5/14/10.   ?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576313083073123352.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_8

Book Review: "What is Mental Illness?"

5/13/11. Psychiatrist and resident scholar at AEI Sally Satel reviews Harvard psychologist Richard J. McNally's book.

http://www.aei.org/article/103603

The Top 29 Cities to Visit in 2011

5/11/11.

http://www.askmen.com/specials/2011_top_29/29-amsterdam.html

The Tricky Chemistry of Attraction

5/11/11.

"Much of the attraction between the sexes is chemistry. New studies suggest that when women use hormonal contraceptives, such as birth-control pills, it disrupts some of these chemical signals, affecting their attractiveness to men and women's own preferences for romantic partners..."


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576313243579677316.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

Book Review: "On China"

5/11/11. Bret Stephens reviews Henry Kissinger's "On China."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576314931204039982.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

Perverse Incentives

5/11/11.

"Though the recession has blunted overall demand for cosmetic surgeries, one subcategory appears to be entering a growth phase, at least judging from the fifth annual Congress on Aesthetic Vaginal Surgery, held late last year in a luxury resort outside Tucson. There, about 60 doctors, most of them OB-GYNs, converged to discuss the expanding field of “cosmetic-gyn”—elective surgeries for women seeking to “rejuvenate” and/or “beautify” their vaginas. Attendance at the conference has been increasing by about 20 percent each year—one doctor there explained that his services are in such demand, he has multiple operating rooms so he can move quickly from one surgery to the next—and last year a competing conference was held at the Venetian in Las Vegas..."

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/perverse-incentives/8489

Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed

5/9/11. Sent by my friend Jack Haynes, this is an inspirational 5 minute story.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ric_elias.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-04-26&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

Is Sex Good for Your Health?

5/4/11. Read this.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704569404576298953365120630.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read

In Treatment

5/3/11. Watch all the HBO award winning programs --- the best illustrations of psychotherapy - anywhere.

http://www.hbogo.com/?camp=GoG304#search&browseMode=browseGrid?searchTerm=in%20treatment/browse&assetID=GOROSTGP25449?assetType=SERIES?browseMode=browseGrid/

Man Raised by Parents Struggling to Adjust to Human Society

5/3/11. Developmental psychologists are puzzled about how a man raised by two parents who did not divorce will be able to adjust to modern life.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-raised-by-parents-struggling-to-adjust-to-huma,20263/

Monday Quotation

5/2/11.

"Earlier this evening, President Obama called to inform me that American forces killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al Qaeda network that attacked America on September 11, 2001. I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission. They have our everlasting gratitude. This momentous achievement marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001. The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done."

George Walker Bush (1946 -   )