What’s the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath?
July 31, 2014 Comments Off on What’s the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath?

Psychology Today

Sociopaths tend to be nervous and easily agitated. They are volatile and prone to emotional outbursts, including fits of rage. They are likely to be uneducated and live on the fringes of society, unable to hold down a steady job or stay in one place for very long. It is difficult but not impossible for sociopaths to form attachments with others. Many sociopaths are able to form an attachment to a particular individual or group, although they have no regard for society in general or its rules.
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How safe is your workplace?
June 23, 2014 Comments Off on How safe is your workplace?

Psych Central

…here are five ways to start claiming back your power:

Express your feelings instead of reacting to them. First, it’s essential that you have a daily self-reflective practice that allows you to work through feelings; I describe an effective method in this article. Then find a therapist who can help you work through intense feelings; a good one is worth every penny. She knows how to be compassionate as well as maintain good boundaries so as not to absorb your negative feelings. You can also bounce ideas off friends. Just make sure you are mindful of your impact on them and don’t wear out their ears.
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Clitoral orgasm. Is it the only option?
June 10, 2014 Comments Off on Clitoral orgasm. Is it the only option?

Lightfoot-Klein

What can we learn from what men are able to tell us? Comment by Burton has survived his widow’s destructive zeal. He observes that Pharaonic circumcision tends to have quite the opposite effect it strives to achieve. It does not dampen the sex drive in women but tends to create a tendency toward sexual voraciousness in them instead. The removal of their sexual parts, he explains, makes it more difficult for them to achieve sexual satisfaction, hence it intensifies their desire.

Some of the women I interview do indeed volunteer that when they want more sex in the middle of the night, they bang pots and pans about to wake their husbands.
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How fear based control thinks.
May 13, 2014 Comments Off on How fear based control thinks.

The Province

The idea of a tent for cops to stake out the beach didn’t go swimmingly with some of the nudists Monday.

“Everybody’s been down here for years,” said “Croc,” a local fixture.

“We see things before they go down.

“We see the people who are being jerks. We confront them, and they don’t come back.”
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Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement
April 17, 2014 Comments Off on Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement

Daily Beast

The scandal around Phillips is just the latest in a long line of ugly shocks to the far Christian right that threatens to destabilize and possibly capsize the community. As The Wire reported in early March, Bill Gothard, the leader of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, resigned his position in the wake of a series of accusations of alleged sexual abuse from dozens of women in the organization.
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A genetic inheritance of trauma?
April 14, 2014 Comments Off on A genetic inheritance of trauma?

Verge

People who experience early childhood trauma, like abuse or war, often exhibit a number of hormonal imbalances. The mechanisms involved are poorly understood, but most scientists agree that traumatic events alter gene expression, which then causes misregulations in a number of biological processes. But whether these changes can actually be passed down to offspring is a controversial question, because it would imply that acquired traits – traits that aren’t actually encoded in DNA, but rather arise following certain experiences – are somehow being passed down through generations.
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Understanding the heart of feminine hypersexuality
April 8, 2014 Comments Off on Understanding the heart of feminine hypersexuality

Psychology Today

The new Lars von Trier film Nymphomaniac: Volume I is the confessional tale of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a traumatized, shame-filled, hypersexual woman. We first encounter her lying in an alley in a pool of her own blood. She is discovered there by Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), a kindly man who takes her in and nurtures her with hot tea, a warm bed, and an empathetic set of ears. To him, Joe conveys her lifelong history of sexual acting out. What a lot of the people who see this film will likely wonder is: How realistic is this movie? Do women like Joe really exist?
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Understanding domestic violence
April 5, 2014 Comments Off on Understanding domestic violence

FBI/US Dept of Justice

For years, the party line on family violence has been the starkly one-sided view of the above-linked PDF. Basically, the message has been that there is always a victim and a perpetrator — the latter of which gets to live in servile fear until (usually) she flees and justice is served (or she ends up dead.)
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The real roots of mental illness
April 3, 2014 Comments Off on The real roots of mental illness

Psych Central

But no matter how comfortable it is, no matter how much Warren, Venn, NAMI or Big Pharma, or anyone wants it to be THE cause, it’s not.

The facts are clear: the majority of people in treatment for substance use have histories of childhood trauma. And as many as 90% of the people receiving care in the public system have histories of childhood trauma, most notably abuse and neglect. An even bigger truth is that there are lots of things in addition to abuse and neglect that overwhelm children-and parents – leading to what is frequently diagnosed as mental illness.
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Some signs of hope…
March 28, 2014 Comments Off on Some signs of hope…

Canadian Mags

Come Monday, five unpaid interns at Toronto Life magazine will be out of work because of a visit this week by an inspector of the employment standards branch of the Ontario Ministry of Labour. St. Joseph Media has been told that under the provisions of the Employment Standards Act it can no longer offer four-month unpaid internships unless the interns are fulfilling a job placement requirement from a school of higher education. This is not the case for most interns at Toronto Life historically, although two of the current 7 interns qualify and will be staying on.
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Session Notes

What’s the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath?

How safe is your workplace?

Clitoral orgasm. Is it the only option?

How fear based control thinks.

Cracks in the Biblical patriarchy movement

A genetic inheritance of trauma?

Understanding the heart of feminine hypersexuality

Understanding domestic violence

The real roots of mental illness

Some signs of hope…

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