This American Life, an NPR radio show and podcast, recently aired a story titled, 81 Words, that investigates how homosexuality was declassified as a mental illness by the American Psychological Association. You can access the podcast through iTunes (searching for This American Life) or you can click here.
The next edition of FUSION, the publication from the Art Therapy Alliance and the International Art Therapy Organization, will be out in April 2010. If you haven’t already, check out Fusion Volume 2.
Any suggestions for topics you’d like to see discussed in the next issue’s Features Section?
As a therapist, I think it’s important to stay connected with the struggle our clients face when coming forward about past abuse, learning ways to manage symptoms and then maintaining the ability to cope in a healthier way. Here are 3 blogs written by survivors that I find candid, honest and insightful:
Johanna Heldebro’s graduate thesis for New York City’s School of Visual Arts were photographs of her father, helping her to process his sudden divorce from her mom. The photographs were taken without her father knowing, during visits Johanna took from NY to Stockholm. Read more about her work here.
Crazy Art will be shown at the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2010.
Sneak Peek:
Monday, Feb 8th 10am @ Victoria Hall Theater
33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara
Premiere:
Wednesday, Feb 10th 5pm @ Lobero Theater
33 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara
Q+A following with Artists, Director, and panel of mental health experts.
Taken from Science Daily, here are some articles that got me thinking. Hopefully you’ll find them inspirational too.
This list of revisions is not final. See the APA DSM-5’s website for further details.
Structural, Cross-Cutting, & General Classification Issues for DSM-5 Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, and Other Cognitive Disorders Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition Not Elsewhere Classified Substance-Related Disorders Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders Mood Disorders Anxiety Disorders Somatoform Disorders Factitious Disorders Dissociative Disorders Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Eating Disorders Sleep Disorders Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified Adjustment Disorders Personality Disorders Other Conditions that May Be the Focus of Clinical Attention
Check out this BBC visual article, In pictures: Haiti’s art after the quake
Origami with the da Vinci Surgical System (Robot Origami) from the Department of Telesurgery and Geomedicine, Kanazawa University, Japan. Norihiko Ishikawa, MD, PhD. The da Vinci Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical, Inc., NASDAQ – ISRG) is a sophisticated robotic platform designed to enable complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. Intuitive Surgical’s mission is to bring the benefits of minimally invasive surgery to the broadest possible range of patients.
