Photovoice as a Narrative Intervention for Survivors of Sexual Assault.

Photovoice as a Narrative Intervention for Survivors of Sexual Assault.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/sexual-trauma-victims-reclaim-experiences-through-photography-mu-study-finds/article_7c53c53e-bb24-11e6-ad69-8329437350f9.html Photovoice, a process where people present their photos and share their stories through conversations, can help sexual assault survivors recover from PTSD, Abigail Rolbiecki found from her research. Rolbiecki, a postdoctoral fellow at MU’s School of Medicine, has worked for MU’s Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center on campus for three years and later…

War, drugs and PTSD

War, drugs and PTSD

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/10/history-war-drugs-vikings-nazis-161005101505317.html More recently, Middle Eastern conflicts have seen an increase in the rise of Captagon, an amphetamine that is allegedly fuelling Syria’s civil war. Last November, 11 million pills were seized by Turkish officials at the Syrian-Turkish border, while this April 1.5 million were seized in Kuwait. In a BBC documentary called Syria’s War Drug…

Heavens Gate – Cult survivors 20 years on

Heavens Gate – Cult survivors 20 years on

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/12/22/a-living-member-of-the-heavens-gate-cult-gave-a-rare-interview-to-a-curious-reporter/ I was twelve years old when thirty-nine people were found dead in an apparent mass suicide just outside of San Diego. It was March 26th, 1997. I watched it play out on the news through a screen with my dad halfway across the country. They were found on their backs in bunkbeds, with a…

Success: What counts more is productivity

Success: What counts more is productivity

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/16/are-you-too-old-success-change-your-life-oliver-burkeman To be fair, other studies show age does matter sometimes: maths favours the young; and physical pursuits, such as ballet or athletics, aren’t exactly welcoming to the achy-kneed. Personality also influences the age at which success strikes. The economist David Galenson splits creative geniuses into “conceptual” prodigies such as Picasso – who burst on…

Populist authoritarianism becomes more …popular worldwide

Populist authoritarianism becomes more …popular worldwide

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/11/its-not-just-trump-authoritarian-populism-is-rising-across-the-west-heres-why/?utm_term=.2008d1efbdfc Here’s why. Populist authoritarianism can best be explained as a cultural backlash in Western societies against long-term, ongoing social change. Over recent decades, the World Values Survey shows that Western societies have been getting gradually more liberal on many social issues, especially among the younger generation and well-educated middle class. That includes egalitarian attitudes…

Journalist Perpetuating Ignorance and Myths About Sexual Abuse

Journalist Perpetuating Ignorance and Myths About Sexual Abuse

Morgan, however, has claimed that the singer used her latest revelation to “promote” her career. “I come from a big military family,” he wrote on Twitter. “It angers me when celebrities start claiming ‘PTSD’ about everything to promote themselves.” Morgan went on to suggest that he did not believe either Gaga nor Madonna – who…

Making Hate Great Again

Making Hate Great Again

http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2016/12/19/donald-trump-assembling-most-powerful-hate-group-america Here’s what that really means: It’s not whether these groups approve of what queer people do in the bedroom but how they act upon that animus. Of the 892 active hate groups in the U.S., 48 are specifically dedicated to anti-LGBT causes, according to a 2015 report from SPLC. That’s a 78 percent increase…

Photographer Accused of Rape Commits Suicide

Photographer Accused of Rape Commits Suicide

http://www.haaretz.com/life/.premium-1.756937 Blurriness, and not just in his pictures, characterized Hamilton’s career, from its early days in the 1960s on the beaches of southern France to its violent end on November 25. At 8:30 P.M. that evening, Hamilton’s cleaning lady entered the apartment of the 83-year-old photographer on Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris, and found him with…