Showing posts with label Sociology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sociology. Show all posts

April 8, 2010

Thomas Szasz



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQegsqYhuZE

Drapetomania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

CCHR Co-Founder Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

The Myth of Mental Illness, book by Szasz (1961)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Mental_Illness

An Interview with Thomas Szasz, MD. Online article on mental illness and psychotherapy for psychotherapists.
http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/Thomas_Szasz


The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR): What We Believe



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufOUHeS-ZY&feature=related

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)
http://www.cchrint.org/
http://www.cchrint.org/about-us/declaration-of-human-rights/

April 5, 2010

Manfred Lütz: The Problem Is The Normal

Only in German and Swedish

Manfred Lütz
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_L%C3%BCtz


Jakten på normalitet gör samhället sjukt
SvD, Under strecket, av Ylva Herholz, 4 april 2010
I en tysk bästsäljare varnar psykiatern Manfred Lütz för att vårt samhälle blivit så normalfixerat att det behandlar fel individer.
http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/understrecket/jakten-pa-normalitet-gor-samhallet-sjukt_4516575.svd


June 10, 2009

Humans prefer cockiness to expertise

"EVER wondered why the pundits who failed to predict the current economic crisis are still being paid for their opinions? It's a consequence of the way human psychology works in a free market, according to a study of how people's self-confidence affects the way others respond to their advice."

10 June 2009 by Peter Aldhous

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227115.500

May 28, 2009

Men Live Better Where Women Are In Charge

The Mosuo Matriarchy

How does a matriarchy really work? Argentinian writer Ricardo Coler decided to find out and spent two months with the Mosuo in southern China. "Women have a different way of dominating," the researcher told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,627363,00.html

April 30, 2009

Nils Christie - Reflections on Deviance and Social Control 2009


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Om och med Nils Christie

Alltför mycket har blivit kriminellt, Understreckare Svenska Dagbladet, Henrik Tham, 10 juli 2005
http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/understrecket/artikel_437693.svd

"Läroböcker är djävulens uppfinning" Om skolan inte fanns, Dagens Nyheter, Nisse Larsson, 2002-09-23
http://www.dn.se/insidan/lat-barnen-vara-en-del-av-samhallet-1.115527

Nils Christie - en minimalist som vill ha så lite straff som möjligt
Brottsförebyggande rådet, 2006-05-16
http://www.bra.se/extra/news/?module_instance=7&id=206


March 30, 2009

Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain

"Growing up poor isn’t merely hard on kids. It might also be bad for their brains. A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/poordevelopment/