Comparing onanism with child sexual abuse
Onanism and child sexual abuse - A comparative study of two hypotheses Abstract For some decades now in the West, there has been a growing social anxiety with regard to…
Review: Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology (Lilienfeld et al)
Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology - edited by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr. Has a good discussion of the nature of science. som interesting…
Thoughts and comments: Is psychology a science? (Paul Lutus)
http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/index.html In order to consider whether psychology is a science, we must first define our terms. It is not overarching to say that science is what separates human beings…
More Wikipedia stuff+more
Wikipedia links of interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_film A snuff film is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for…
Alcoholism and LSD
http://politiken.dk/videnskab/ECE1566364/forskere-syretrip-er-godt-mod-alkoholisme/ (danish) http://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200 Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for alcoholism meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Abstract: “Assessments of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in the treatment of alcoholism have not been based…
Siekieatry, again
Dhis is a respons to dhe artikl: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/01/100301crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all “Kirsch’s conclusion is that antidepressants are just fancy placebos. Obviously, this is not what the individual tests showed. If they had, then…
Rosenhan experiment etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment David Rosenhan - On being sane in insane places - 1973 Reed and weep. Think about it next time u watch one of the many films deeling with this…
Sykopathy and its related konsepts: another term we shud taboo?
Reeding Wikipedia's entry on the subjekt very much gives me the impresion that this is another term that we shud do away with (taboo). I.e., we shud stop using it…