Psych III Borderline Personalties and Junk Therapy

Jaffe provides another essay with insight on personality disorders. A nice job and well thought out.
Please do not underestimate the impact of personality disorders on family and societal discord.
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NY Psych Industry Pushing Something that's Crazy

I won’t go into too long a lecture about the stupidity of this proposal to close the NY State Psych Hospitals,
but someone in the psych industry needs to have his head examined.
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Revisiting the Cowardice and Fear that Spawns the Precautionary Principle

Frank Furedi writes and speaks on the vicious problem of the precautionary principle.
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Societal Structures and Mixed Up people

Dan Flynn, a regular essayist at AmSpec, offers some troubling observations about people and relationships in the wake of the heroin OD of the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
It is easy to talk about loving your neighbor as an abstraction, or believing the words of the John Lennon song
Imagine.
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