A few months ago I watched the Oscar winning movie called Born Into Brothels and I’ve been meaning to write about it ever since. Its a documentary on a photographer from NYC, Zana Briski, who goes to Calcutta to photograph the red light district, when she discovers that the children of the prostitutes are interested [...]
Yesterday, I checked out Season2 Episode1 of This American Life on Showtime. The first segment, involving some kids in what I think is North Philly riding horses, brought back memories of grad school and missing my friends in the city of brotherly love. But, the next act, which discussed the story of a guy, about [...]
When I was working with individuals with eating disorders, I was struck by the qualities that seemed to accompany the personalities of anorexics. As I wrote my thesis, my literature review shed some light on my observations and how researchers describe these personality traits. For example, it has been mentioned in numerous studies that anorexics [...]
