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Kangaroo Hearing: Congress & Technology CEOs
This last week’s congressional hearing and grilling of Tech CEOs provides another example of a theatrical performance by the United States Congress. The hearing involved confronting the Tech CEOs with regard to harm for children, particularly public safety and sexual...
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A Message Regarding Inflation: It’s the Housing Costs, [Silly].
While inflation has declined, Americans remain unrelieved from any reported declines in costs. Why? The answer is housing. Housing is a primary cost and one we consumers cannot readily bargain our way through. If the price of chicken or eggs rises, I can try to find a...
The Ignored Personality Trait of Perfectionism and its Relationship to Suicide
The recent report that US surgeons and medical doctors have a higher suicide rate than the general population brings the issue of perfectionism into focus as an underlying factor. Perfectionism is a personality trait related to suicide. It is surprising to me that...
Abrupt Suicide: Discourse with Clinicians, Experts, and Researchers
Abrupt suicides, such as the recent suicide of dancer Stephen tWitch Boss, startle society with the unresolved grief from deaths we can’t understand. The abrupt suicide of someone we know, either as a family member, friend, or just acquaintance yearns for...
Grieving and national trauma: Thoughts from Clinicians and Therapists
I believe we are a society living with intense anxiety and fear of trauma. Clinicians, are you seeing and feeling what I am? Here are my initial thoughts as a clinical psychologist: I never went through Kubler Ross’s bargaining phase when my mother died. I didn’t try...
Grieving and Bereavement: Thoughts from Clinicians, Psychologists, and Experts
I'm convening public discourse about grieving and bereavement and would like to hear from a cross section of experts, clinicians, and community members about their lessons learned or thoughts on grieving. #grieving #bereavement #grief Here are my initial...