"Nonviolence is not idealistic or sentimental about evil; it does not coddle or cajole aggressors but moves against perceived injustice proactively, with the same alacrity as the most hawkish militarist." -- Rene Girard, Powers That Be, p. 121

"Tapering antipsychotics in adults with intellectual disabilities improves their Quality of Life." #MentalHealth #antipsychotics ARTICLE LINK: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Almost 40 years after SSRIs were first introduced to the market, there’s no conclusive evidence that the serotonin theory of depression is even true." ✍️ Charles Cornish-Dale trib.al/knQ0Au6

Article "considers the existential and metaphysical roots of Rank’s psychology in a larger context of meaning and expand on what such notions implicate for practice." researchgate.net/profile/Sara-E…

A team of researchers reviews 60 studies on chronic loneliness and finds that current psychiatric and public health models fail to capture its relational, developmental, and cultural dimensions. By Joe Huang madinamerica.com/2025/06/chroni…

Article: "conscience is a phenomenon that takes place on two different architectonic levels: the sedimented level of intentional consciousness and the pre-intentional level of sense-formation and intersubjective perceptive phantasiai. On this pre-intentional level, one does not

Study: Practical wisdom (phronesis) "predicted key outcomes—related to flourishing, moral disengagement, and morally relevant aspects of personality—beyond what Moral Foundations alone explained, with an average increase in predictive power of 13.7%..." journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Article: "There is wisdom in Rogers’ theory of listening that is often over-simplified and misapprehended. This essay raises questions about how to master this nuanced skill and whether this proficiency can be preserved for future generations." tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Dr James Davies (PhD) 💭 So, not only is DSM not science based, but it is also biased, or worse still, manipulated by pharmaceutical interests.

"This article presents an analysis of Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, emphasizing its pertinence in elucidating the correlation between religion and violence within the scope of significant topics in international relations." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"This commentary examines the implications of AI’s “immortality,” exploring how it disrupts traditional notions of human identity and challenges the frameworks that bind individuals to communities and cultures." link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

A classic: In three studies, participants "were made suspicious about the motives of an actor on the basis of contextual information surrounding the actor's behavior, rather than the behavior itself. Results of these studies suggest that, particularly when perceivers believe that

This was called “Shell Shock” after WWI because of the relentless mortar fire during trench warfare. The name was changed to “Battle Fatigue,”then “War Neurosis” after WWII. We owe a lot of thanks to soldiers for how we understand trauma today. It wasn’t called PTSD until 1980.

Study finds that our judgments of other people are conditioned on our pre-conceptions of those people. We tend to evaluate someone's behavior in light of whether we already feel positively or negatively about that person, which colors our judgement of them.

Study (not yet peer-reviewed) reports evidence that ChatGP is making people dumber. A slippery slope to Idiocracy? insidehook.com/internet/study…

In the linked article, Andrew Bland examines three common assessment instruments in light of their adherence to the assumptions of hedonism, universalism, atomism, materialism, and objectivism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

“It’s Possible, and People Are Doing It”: Mental Health Crises Without Coercion A new study explores how organizers and health professionals are creating non-carceral, community-based alternatives to psychiatric emergency care. By Ashley Bobak, PsyD madinamerica.com/2025/06/its-po…

New book: cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-…

From Wounds to Labels to “Mental Illness” by Dan Nelson We don’t need to understand someone’s entire past to exercise a little emotional humility—to see behavior as adaptation, not brokenness. buff.ly/1ijWsVJ

"The argument of this paper is that the experience and performance of joy can be a radical and subversive act of pedagogical agency. Although joy may seem out of place and out of touch in academia given the increased surveillance and policing of what is being taught in the