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Tim Roth: my father and I were abused by my grandfather “He was abused. And I was abused. But I was not abused by him. I was abused by his abuser … It was his father.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/05/tim-roth-father-and-i-abused-by-grandfather-rillington-place Image: “Tim Roth” by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Cult or religion ?
https://aeon.co/essays/theres-no-sharp-distinction-between-cult-and-regular-religion The historian J Gordon Melton of Baylor University in Texas says that the word ‘cult’ is meaningless: it merely assumes a normative framework that legitimises some exertions of religious power – those associated with mainstream organisations – while condemning others. Groups that have approved, ‘orthodox’ beliefs are considered legitimate, while groups whose interpretation of…
Mental health has been commoditised
http://bit.ly/2YQtKmi In the 1980s, British audiences smiled bemusedly at neurosis-laden Woody Allen films and the normality with which American television and cinema treated notions of therapy, meds and interventions. To a British ear, the protagonists of these human melodramas could seem self-absorbed, foolish and narcissistic; figures of fun to be pitied for their inability to…
Psychology lacks a theoretical foundation
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/freud_was_right-212606 To be science, there must be a theoretical foundation. What does psychology lack? A theoretical foundation. In fact, the only true theoretical foundation of psychology is widely derided by psychologists and psychiatrists alike, yet much of the world can only name one person in the field – and that person is Dr. Sigmund Freud,…
Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Male Survivors – #7
The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Carlos Santana Forgiving his abuser was key to his own personal journey. https://www.grunge.com/191143/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-carlos-santana/ Image: “Carlos Santana am 21. Januar 2000, in München, Muffat-Halle” by Jaud is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Men’s rights movement
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement The men’s rights movement (MRM, also known as men’s rights activism (MRA), masculism, or “The Men’s Human Rights Movement”[2]) is a fringe movement which espouses the view that social, legal and economic discrimination against males is present in society to the extent that fighting it deserves an organized effort mirroring that of feminism, and…