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On AlterNet: psychology

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "psychology"

Does It Make Sense to Treat Depression with Drugs?

Does It Make Sense to Treat Depression with Drugs?

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. August 15, 2008.
Depression is rooted in overwhelming emotional pain. Talk therapy is a successful, commonsense antidote, but pushing pills pays more.

End Psychologists' Role in State Torture

End Psychologists' Role in State Torture

Stephen Soldz, Boston Globe. August 12, 2008.
Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.

The Science of Happiness: Is It All Bullshit?

The Science of Happiness: Is It All Bullshit?

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. July 4, 2008.
Just because a Harvard academic says something is so, doesn't mean it is.

Are FLDS Women Brainwashed?

Are FLDS Women Brainwashed?

Sara Robinson, Orcinus AlterNet: PEEK. April 18, 2008.
What drives a woman to submit to a fundamentalist Mormon cult?

Why Torture Made Me Leave the APA

Why Torture Made Me Leave the APA

Jeffrey S. Kaye, Ph.D., Invictus. March 6, 2008.
Jeffrey Kaye left the APA over its complicity in torture by the U.S. government. This is his letter of resignation.

What Makes Criminal Suspects Give a False Confession?

What Makes Criminal Suspects Give a False Confession?

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 2, 2007.
The confession makes a guilty verdict almost automatic. So why are many "suspects" making false confessions?

The Science Behind Personality

The Science Behind Personality

Daniel Nettle, The Independent UK. September 18, 2007.
Why do some of us worry endlessly about our lives, while others sail through without a care?

Psychologists in Denial About Torture

Psychologists in Denial About Torture

Amy Goodman, Truthdig. August 22, 2007.
Central to the debate is the question, "Are psychologists participating in torture?"

How Psychologists Aid Torture

How Psychologists Aid Torture

Deborah Kory, Huffington Post. June 27, 2007.
Many psychologists are in denial about their role in society -- their social responsibility to keep the human race from being self-destructive.

Hypocritical Oath: Psychologists and Torture

Hypocritical Oath: Psychologists and Torture

Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. June 6, 2007.
The tenet of medicine to do no harm applies to psychologists, yet they are increasingly implicated in abusive interrogations at U.S. military detention facilities like Guantanamo.

Happiness Science

Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. November 21, 2006.
There's a scientific basis to the truism that money can't buy happiness.