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To this avid observer of the political battle that’s been raging in Washington since the passage of the Affordable Care Act a few years ago, it seems that President Obama was less than fully truthful with the American people about important aspects of law.
Reading about the state of institutional care for mentally ill people in Mexico brought to mind an experience of my own from a pre-internship training practicum in the early 1980s at a hospital in the United States.
Figuring out what is a problem and what isn’t a problem is harder than it looks. And nowhere is the confusion greater than in therapy.
Sometimes, “just sticking to the facts” is the quickest path to bitter conflict.
Many political pundits suggest we’ve been witnessing a time of unprecedented incivility and political dysfunction within the US government. But a thoughtful look at the historical record would indicate otherwise.
Yet another mass shooting illustrates the cycle of insanity in which we currently live. As long as we refuse to do anything about the systemic factors behind each incident, we guarantee that there will be others.
The cognitive-behavioral revolution taught us that meaningful behavioral change generally can’t occur in the absence of a change of heart and attitude, and the only way to stem the rising tide of violence among various militant political groups is to confront their driving ideology directly.
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