We see blame and scapegoating in politics and just about everywhere today. Most of the candidates can easily find something to complain about, and mock the others, and sure enough their poll numbers go up. Understanding how automatically small two against one triangles begin in the family, whereby one person is scapegoated to bring the.
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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Words Matter
Posted by Barbara Le Blanc
Four hundred years before the Holocaust, Martin Luther decried Jews in the most inflammatory terms. He said they drank the blood of Christian children, and called for their killing, the taking of their property and the burning of their homes. Scholars draw a line from those words to the systematic extermination of European Jews under.
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The following is a first draft of a review that I will develop for publication.
The last 60 years of research with families of schizophrenics have produced some reliable observations that are worth thinking about and worth considering their implications for how we think about the development of severe psychopathology and then its course after it.
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Reflections
Posted by Ann Nicholson
I am working on expanding my thinking on man's relationship with the earth.
I have been reading Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel" for the second time. I am struck by the fact that food production allowed for small groups or tribes to increase their populations as well as support members who were free to.
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I am working on a journal article for Family Systems about the research I did on family system shifts and weight loss and the potential for clinical science to grasp the impact of the family emotional system by tracking shifts in the family system. I am posting here the presentation I did at the 2015.
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