Sacred Disorder | Cliff Bostock's blog – 'Finally, I came to regard as sacred the disorder of my mind' (Rimbaud)
Another gift from the free market
Paul Krugman cites a report in the Wall Street Journal that Big Pharma and friends organized for this noble purpose: The drug and medical-device industries are mobilizing to gut a provision in the stimulus bill that would spend $1.1 billion on research comparing medical treatments, portraying it as the first step to government rationing. The […]
Obama: a major betrayal
I’ve tried to remain neutral about Barack Obama despite some actions that have angered me. First, there was his voting in favor of FISA, the bill that immunized telecom companies against prosecution for eavesdropping on Americans. This was during his election campaign, while he was still a senator, and was in direct contradiction to what […]
A documentary-maker contacts me about disinheritance
I received an interesting email last week from a researcher for a documentary TV series about wills and inheritance. She read my “Headcase” columns about my father’s disinheritance of me and wants to interview me for the series. My father died in Novermber of 2007 and turned out to have written me out of his […]
Psychology’s ‘third wave’
Time Magazine’s website features an excellent essay entitled “The Third Wave of Therapy” by John Cloud. The third wave follows the psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral waves and is called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Its creator is Steven Hayes. In actuality, there’s nothing very new about ACT. I was stunned, reading the lengthy article, to find […]