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The Power of Word to Diminish
By Harold A. Maio, former editor of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal from Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Change does not occur without awareness, awareness can be clouded by language itself. Language is, in fact, one of the primary tools societies employ to establish rank, impede change. It creeps in on little cat feet like Carl Sandburg's fo... Read more...
I haven't disappeared
I've just been a very bad, bad blogger lately. Why? Oh, largely due to my newfound Facebook addiction. I waited to sign up, but finally got around to it, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Because I didn't already have enough ways to waste time around the internet. (Hello, LOLcats and all things related.) So I thought (after being reminded by a few people that when you come over here, you are still greeted by pics from Halloween) th... Read more...
Continuing our failed policies will insure more injuries and deaths on the highway - there is a better way
  On Friday, September 18, 2009 Shaun Campbell who had accumulated "16 drunken-driving convictions and 78 license suspensions" was finally sentenced. He received 4.5 years in prison. Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Brian DiGiacomo asked the logical question: "What is it going to take for Shaun Campbell to stop drinking and driving?"... "Every time a court sentenced him, he got back behind the wheel of a car witho... Read more...
“You alone must do it, but you can’t do it alone”
Hobart Mowrer – ‘Integrity Groups’ One young woman can change the lives of nine teenage girls…but we need to ‘Listen to the Streets’ and follow her lead with support and nurturing and collaboration and resources By David H. Kerr I have great respect for many 'street workers' in Newark who are helping others in their own way from what they learned and from the example they set, with no financial compensation... Read more...
Wayward Patters
Two different life stories, one famous, one not, have been on my mind late this week, as they might be for any psychologist who has a client whose capacity to function in an everyday, normal sort of way comes into question. The famous story involves Alex Rodriguez, about whom I went on ESPN this past Wednesday to critique the facial expressions of as a result of his extremely peculiar ... Read more...
Women Attracted to "Bad Boys"
As if the economy isn’t enough to worry about, here’s something else that’s very spooky: the pending fifth marriage of former Chicago police officer Drew Peterson. You know him. He’s the guy whose third wife died in 2004, in a case later ruled a homicide, and whose fourth wife disappeared in 2007 at the age of 23. ... Read more...
Lie Spotting
Television and lying is on my mind these days. I’m a facial coding expert, meaning I know to look for which muscle movements will suggest which types of emotions are being shown on a person’s face. Now, there’s no one lying muscle in the face. And that’s a good thing. Otherwise, countless salespeople, politicians, and the like would be headed for the plastic surgeon.... Read more...
Whooo Are You?
Maybe counselors should employ the munchkins who guard the castle in The Wizard of Oz. To all who would enter, they call out: “Whooo are you?” in a strange, sonorous chant. It’s hardly an idle question. As counselors soon realize, behaviors are not randomly distributed. All patients have their own characteristic patterns of behavior, and reveal emotions and personality types that... Read more...
No, no…e-VAC-uate!
Back in the 80’s when alcohol/drug rehabs were flourishing and everybody got a 30-day stay at a posh resort-like rehab no matter what, I was working at such a rehab in Rhode Island. We had a guy in treatment at one point who was loquacious without being eloquent. What I mean is, he talked a lot, but he talked wrong. He fancied himself as smarter than he really was, yet he frequently ... Read more...
Social Worker Personality Disorder
Diagnostic Features   The essential feature of Social Worker Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of controlling others through the ... Read more...
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