Tag: Mental health

  • Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 2)

    In the first part of this paper, Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 1), Dissident Voice, July 25, 2023, I introduced some psychoanalytic concepts and explained their application in revealing the latent motivations of high-ranking policy-makers in recent U.S. presidential administrations.  This approach was long ago studied by the eminent political scientist Harold Lasswell, […]

  • Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes

    Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes

    Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions. Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch […]

  • The End of Community College?

    The End of Community College?

    Find out more about Going Remote Here On Friday, March 13, 2020 the community college system as we knew it ended – and I’m not sure it will ever return.    And just maybe, that’s a good thing. The day before the pandemic forced our campus to shut down in the San Francisco Bay Area, […]

  • Second-Hand, Third-Hand, Vicarious Trauma

    Second-Hand, Third-Hand, Vicarious Trauma

    I’ve been helping my friend from another country navigate the legal system, green card in hand, and a husband who attempted to suffocate her to death. The people in both camps — defense and prosecution — are interestingly together bedfellows, working the “system” hard, juggling which judge is this or that (pro- or con-), and […]

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