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By Aja Romano on October 20, 2014 A U.K. judge has issued a nine-month suspended sentence for a manga fan who admitted to 10 counts of possession of illustrated pictures of fictional characters who looked underage. It’s the first such sentence in the country and is being viewed as a test case for prohibited images…
Yoga class suspended over ‘cultural appropriation’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/university-yoga-class-suspended-over-cultural-appropriation-dispute-a6744426.html Yoga has become the latest victim of political correctness on university campuses, after a free class was cancelled because of complaints that the lessons were an unaceptable “cultural appropriation” of a non-Western practice. Jennifer Scharf, a yoga practitioner who has offered free weekly sessions to students at the University of Ottawa in Canada since…
What is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2016/05/08/psychodynamic-psychotherapy-a-misunderstood-but-effective-powerful-treatment/ Psychodynamic psychotherapy is based “on the idea that unconscious thoughts, feelings and behaviors affect our conscious life,” said Deborah L. Cabaniss, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the director of psychotherapy training in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia. Identifying these hidden elements—bringing them to…

Clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church can’t be blamed on celibacy
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/do-the-right-thing/201003/six-important-points-you-dont-hear-about-regarding-clergy-sexual First, if Catholic clergy aren’t more likely to be sex offenders than other clergy or men in general, then celibacy can’t be blamed by iteself. Most sex offenders are not celibate clergy. Most are married or partnered. Furthermore, many men who don’t have sex for a variety of reasons (e.g., no suitable partners, marital…
Rarely do we actually experience life as it is
We can spend so much time stuck in our heads interpreting the world, that rarely do we actually experience it as it really is. #mindfulness — Everyday Mindfulness (@mindfuleveryday) October 25, 2014 Because mindfulness is normal; it is not something special, limited to Buddhists, mystics, academics or psychologists. This is a simple process that any human…