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Seeing mental illness differently If you look carefully, very carefully, at the enormous expansion of the mental health professions and the pharmaceutical industries "treating" chemically problems with thoughts and feelings, you will soon see that they are both treating problems...

Whey do we call certain aberrant behavior, thoughts or feelings an illness? Almost every day, we see in the media a plea to take "mental illness" more seriously. While this is a noble and worthwhile endeavor, it has had little...

The lives of women What If girls and women all over this planet were safe? And possibly even respected? I mean this in the simplest concrete sense-nothing fancy. If families everywhere were as happy to have a new baby who...

Are we designed evolve or not? There is so much more that we do not see than we see. I mean the sighted and not the blind. I mean that the sighted can be the blindest of all. The very...

How I learned behavior therapy As part of the first generation of women invited into doctoral programs, we had the advantage of seeing with “beginner’s eyes," as the Buddhists say, what was passing for psychotherapy at the time. We did...

Can this therapist be saved? Many years ago, before we had invented feminist psychology and psychotherapy, I enrolled in a large Midwestern University’s Psychology Department to begin my study of Clinical Psychology. I already had a Masters degree, which, in...

The importance of the human thought process Since the introduction of the second wave of feminist psychology, almost 50 years ago now, a central issue has been the deconstruction and dissolution of many of our systems of binary thought and...

The big book Psychiatric Diagnosis as a Cultural Phenomenon Today I want to clarify for those who are not familiar with the underlying substrate shakily holding up the institution of diagnosis. The large American bible of diagnosis is known as...

What If You Were That Frog? There was a time not so many years ago when domestic violence was considered to be an extreme rarity. There was no point in reporting it to the authorities, who also believed it to...