The time is fast approaching when I’ll need to decide what to do with the rest of my life. Graduation is less than two months away. You’d think I’d be chomping at the bit to get out there and wield my shiny, new masters degree, but I’m not. I can’t really even tell you why.
It’s [...]

I spent 8 painful hours at my new practicum site today going through employee training. Among the endless information stream I was forced privileged to read, was DRA training. What, you might, ask is DRA training? Well, it’s the act of Congress that gave Medicaid broader powers and greater funding to ferret out [...]

I’ve been reading Rewriting the Soul: Multiple personality and the sciences of memory. It was recommended to me by one of my professors. I picked it up more for the “sciences of memory” part than the “multiple personality” part. I confess I am a skeptic of multiple personalities (officially Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID now). [...]

[Note: As with all sensitive topics, I've been sitting on this one so I can read it over a few times and make sure it sounds relatively sane. It's almost old news now and the APA has recently released this statement regarding the work group process and Dr. Zucker's experience. I'm posting this anyway, because [...]

Netflix has “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” available for on demand viewing. I’ve been down all day with some nasty virus and had little better to do than lie in bed and watch Buck Rogers. Not that Gil Gerard in hard to watch, even with all the hokey martial arts and…unique…70s fashion.
It’s been interesting [...]

I think one of my biggest pet peeves about the field of addiction treatment is this idea that we can scare people away from their addiction. It doesn’t work. For one thing, people desperate for their next hit aren’t thinking, “Do I take this hit and risk [insert dire prognostication here]?” Research has even demonstrated [...]

Yes, I’m reading The Golden Compass. I needed to some light reading in part to fill the times on an airplane I can’t use my laptop and in part to break up all the high-falootin’ reading I’ve been doing lately. One can only read so much scholarly literature before one’s brain goes to mush.

In [...]

Went and saw N*W*C a few weeks back. Posts like this one tend to sit for a while so I can make sure I’m saying what I want to say. Still feeling a little trepidatious about this one, but it’s time to put a fork in it and call it done.
After the show I participated [...]

One of my assignments for my practice class is to keep a journal of things that come up for me during the semester. I haven’t been very good about it and I’m trying to catch up.
In my policy class, we have been discussing Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. From the opening letter:

On April [...]

This semester my practice class is focusing on issues related to children and adolescents. We’ve spent a little time talking about sexuality and gender. It is interesting to me that we as a society are slowly getting to a place where the sex of the person you sleep with is less an issue, but woe [...]