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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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The haunting scars of emotional neglect
February 25, 2014 Comments Off on The haunting scars of emotional neglect

NPR

Researchers began studying the children in Romanian orphanages after the nation’s brutal and repressive government was overthrown in 1989. At the time, there were more than 100,000 children in government institutions. And it soon became clear that many of them had stunted growth and a range of mental and emotional problems.
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Coping with hostile and antagonistic people you can’t escape from.
February 4, 2014 Comments Off on Coping with hostile and antagonistic people you can’t escape from.

PsychCentral

It is even more ironic that, after years of abusing people, he should think of himself as protecting others from abuse, Sam comes to feel like the “victim” of these ingrates. Their ingratitude makes him angry. Sam’s anger is based on a constellation of expectations that make him vulnerable to volcanic eruptions. Here are some underlying beliefs that contribute to explosive anger:
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Is there medical hope for PTSD combined with nightmares?
December 30, 2013 Comments Off on Is there medical hope for PTSD combined with nightmares?

Kevin MD

This is actually a followup post to this primary article on Trauma Focused Therapy.

But oftentimes, despite PTSD treatment, patients still complain of nightmares. What can I offer them then?

A psychotherapeutic option

Image rehearsal therapy (IRT) is one option:

* IRT is a modified CBT technique that utilizes recalling the nightmare, writing it down and changing the theme.
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So, what’s a woman good for anyway?
February 8, 2013 1 Comment on So, what’s a woman good for anyway?

Ros found this a few days ago. It almost stands to be posted without comment…
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Sex and violence — addressing the real problem
March 24, 2012 Comments Off on Sex and violence — addressing the real problem

The Other Journal

DA: You are talking about so many different levels and layers with the question “is it hyper-sexualized?” Compared to my understanding from Tremper (Longman III) about the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures, no, we’re not hyper-sexualized. If you compare where we are even in the context of other modern cultures’ engagement with sexuality, we’re still somewhat restrained, there is still some regard. Who’s the judge of the term “hyper-sexualization?”
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The real roots of freedom
December 23, 2011 1 Comment on The real roots of freedom

Guardian.co.uk

Last week, on an internet radio channel called The Fifth Column, I debated climate change with Claire Fox of the Institute of Ideas, one of the rightwing libertarian groups that rose from the ashes of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
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The starting point for talking to kids about sex.
July 23, 2011 2 Comments on The starting point for talking to kids about sex.

via HugoSchwyzer.net.

So many adults are fearful that telling kids that sex is pleasurable will simply encourage young people to have it before they are physically and emotionally ready for the consequences. Better, they imagine, to emphasize that it’s important to wait and to stress the risks. But as it turns out, centering pleasure is a great way to minimize the chances that a teen will be pressured into doing something that they don’t want to do.
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