2 stories in the NY Times today relating to heroin addictions and the consequences thereof, which i’m posting here following my year last year in a psychology internship working with opiate addicts. i wrote less than i thought i might about that experience as it was going on – though in retrospect the idea that [...]
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touching and troubling
Posted in art, law & policy, psychology, tagged art, drug policy, psychology on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
APA comes out against torture
Posted in law & policy, psychology, tagged psychology torture policy on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
freaking finally. for those who haven’t been following, there has been a fair amount of controversy over the fact that the APA had not banned psychologists from working for the government in positions where their expertise is used to assist in torture. here’s the APA letter to Bush condemning the human rights violations of this [...]
simplicity, patterns
Posted in psychology, tagged brain, psychology, simplicity on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
eep, i got all excited about this blog thing when i first made it, and now haven’t touched it in more than two months. doubly sad since during one of those months, i was on break from school, and theoretically could have written some thoughtful comments on the several articles that i’ve saved [...]
neurolaw
Posted in law & policy, psychology, tagged academia, criminal justice, law, neuroscience, psychology on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mind Hacks’ 10/27 post ‘My brain made me do it’ reminds me of my Behavioral Science and the Law article, and makes me realize I never announced when it was published earlier this year. I remember when it happened I was kind of shy about it so I only mentioned it if it happened [...]
