SPEAKER: Gender-based violence is a problem everywhere. That’s why it’s important to understand what it looks like. Did you know that globally at least one in every three women experiences some form of violence? In most cases, this violence is committed by men against girls, women, boys, or other men. That’s because many cultures around …
Read more Part 1: Psychological and Economic Gender-Based Violence
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, you wrote an engrossing book on the psychological costs of killing Hobbes said that man’s life in nature is brutish, cruel and short that man has a built-in instinct to kill and be aggressive Having interviewed hundreds of soldiers who have killed on the battlefield you draw a very different conclusion …
Read more Psychologist Lt. Col. Dave Grossman — On the Psychology of Killing
At least 24 people were shot and injured between late Saturday afternoon and early Sunday morning Police believe most shootings were gang or drug related 34 Chicago students killed and almost 300 wounded in the past year Chicago is now the murder capital of this country Go on then, eh Get off this bus I’m …
School shootings are becoming more prominent. Violence makes the headlines often and the more our world advances in technology and weaponry, the more we are faced with difficult questions. Will this be a safe place for our children to live in? Are we taking enough measures to be proactive? And how can empathy be taught …
DR PHIL: I’m glad you’re here talking about it, because so often people feel ashamed, right? I mean, you’re confused and you’re ashamed about depression and mistakenly believe that, ‘Look, I’ve just gotta gut it up here, I’ve gotta overcome it using willpower alone. DR FREDA: It is so true, the stigma around depression is …
Read more Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall Explains the Symptoms of Depression — Dr. Phil
– [Narrator] We live in a very unique city. We have our challenges here in Chicago with gun violence, poverty, and so many other things. These young men have seen friends get shot, family members get shot, domestic abuse, they’ve been abused. Trauma is real. And we absolutely need to think differently about the way …
Read more The Mental Health Movement for Chicago’s Inner City Youth
On January 3rd 1999 a man named Andrew Goldstein wandered onto the New York City subway platform and shoved a stranger named Kendra Webdale into the path of an oncoming train. With the story making national news reporters dug into Golstein’s past and found that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had a history …
Read more We Shut Down State Mental Hospitals. Some Want to Bring Them Back.
When I’m playing Assassin’s Creed or Call of Duty, my brain is totally absorbed in this virtual environment. But what happens to my brain when I come out of it? Is it different? This WEEK, we humans will spend 3 billion hours playing video games; 1.2 billion people play regularly… 99 percent of boys and …
*Dinging noise* -Hey everybody, welcome back! Again, I have a wonderful, special guest Dr. Alexa Altman, who is a trauma specialist, is here. If you haven’t watched our first video together, I encourage you to do that, the link is in the description -But today we’re gonna talk about coping with trauma and building those …
Today, we’re talking about Stockholm Syndrom What is it, and how does it apply in therapy? *Music* This is one of the most fascinating topics I’ve gotten to research thus far so thank you to all of you who’ve requested it. And in all honesty I knew what Stockholm Syndrome was, but I didn’t really …
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