Healthcare and the Cost of Non-Price Rationing
The orthodox approach to health policy is obsessively focused on the burdens of price barriers to care, and at the same time inordinately oblivious to the burdens of non-price barriers. Yet non-price...
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Infidelity in the Digital Age
Is It Cheating If I...?Once upon a time infidelity was pretty easy to identify. If a person was having sex outside of his or her primary relationship - with a neighbor, a coworker, a casual...
View ArticleAre You Anti-Psychiatry?
I have often been asked the question "are you anti-psychiatry?". My response has been that I do not deny that there are persons in serious distress and despair, but I disagree with the bio-psychiatric...
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Misophonia: Enraged by Everyday Sounds
I consider myself to be a pretty tolerant person.I'll eat just about any food you place in front of me. I'll read any book genre. I'll listen to any musical artist someone plays for me, even if I...
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The Best Quotes on Healthy Living
In modern Western society, we deeply value good health, yet we have created a society and way of living so out of balance that damage to our long-term health is the inevitable result. We rush around...
View ArticleMy Recent Silence and A Voice That Matters
In recent weeks, as the publication of the psychiatric diagnostic manual called DSM-5 approached, and media people paid it much attention, people who know that my work on exposing the truth about...
View ArticleFeminism and Evolutionary Psychology - Complementary
Between 2007 and 2010, along with a group of extraordinary, innovative, and intrepid scholars, I was extremely fortunate to help move the field of Evolutionary Psychology forward by serving as founding...
View ArticleOpting Out of Standardized Tests
This piece originally appeared in The Nation.In February 2012, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, after a lengthy feud with the state teachers’ union, came to an agreement over a comprehensive teacher...
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Aging Teeth
"Getting long in the tooth" refers to horses’ teeth, which unlike humans', continue to grow with age. So it is possible to estimate a horse's age by examining the teeth. The longer the teeth the older...
View ArticleTHE TOXIC
next one in the series is THE TOXICThis syrupy, two faced back stabber is overfriendly one minute and sabotaging the next. Don’t trust this manipulative, gossiping bitch. Her ingratiating manner hides...
View ArticleMagic Laughter
“I can still make you laugh,” my husband of 40+ years observed happily the other day.So I started thinking about laughter’s role in love. According to reliable research, women say they want a man who...
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A New Paradigm of Golf Instruction
It used to be that mentioning “mindfulness” and “awareness” in connection to sports coaching would be greeted with smirks. One might as well be quoting golf guru Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) from the film...
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How Many Children Do We Want?
I was struck by the appearance of two op-eds in the New York Times on the same day. One, by Ma Jian, decried the one-child rule in China and the way it is enforced. The other, by Thomas Friedman,...
View ArticleHeart transplant survivor helps donor's grieving sister heal
Lynn Hunter's big heart is helping me heal my broken heart.Lynn is a Virginia mom in her mid-40s who, exactly one year ago, received the ultimate gift of life – a heart transplant.Donating lifeWe "met"...
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Return of the Talking Cure
It’s nearly impossible to understand chronic psychosomatic pain without having experienced it. The toll is anywhere from inconvenient to incapacitating. It can afflict any part of your body—your neck,...
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Picturing the Wealth Gap
A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words. Here are visuals to help put the wealth gap in context. No one disagrees that the gap continue to widen. Most agree that this isn't a good thing for...
View ArticleHave You Experienced Discrimination? Keep Quiet or Else!
Targets of discrimination are treated unfairly. That much is definitional. Getting discriminated against can narrow your opportunities and inflict psychological costs.There is another problem with...
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Frutti di Bosco
Grading – grating. Oh, the agonies of grading student performance! Allow me to indulge (again) in a moment of self-pity. For an earlier Jeremiad, see here. It is a well-known fact – and one that is...
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