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The Next Web Quoted Me!

As I was going through my emails this morning this one caught my attention.

Google alerts is a notification service that lets you know whenever an item with a specific query is indexed. So, obviously, when I saw this I followed the link and it took me to this page.
(http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2011/08/01/desktop-versus-web-based-email-fight/)
I was familiar with The Next Web as an up and coming tech news site.

With the help of my good friend ctrl+f I found this.

When I read this it reminded me of a post I had ready on Google+ a few days ago. 

As it turns out Zee M Kane is the Editor-In-Chief of The Next Web. As I was looking through the comments on the post I finally found it. 

It appears the that the author of the article (Joel Falconer) Had been reading through the comments on his chief editors post and decided to quote me! This is so cool!

Chuck & Beans

I dare say there would be a longitudinal correlation between the growth of the internet and the decline in bathroom graffiti.

Chuck & Beans: "

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Spiders On Drugs

This is a youtube classic. We watched it the other day in class so I decided to share it.

British Psychological Society on DSM-5

I concur.

British Psychological Society on DSM-5:

Some of you may be following the development of the forthcoming fifth revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the major book used for psychiatric diagnosis. There has been a lot of criticism due to the secrecy of the process this time around, but the British Psychological Society (BPS), the major mental health organization in the UK, is taking an even more interesting and refreshing angle: criticizing the entire current framework of diagnosis.

The DSM takes a medical approach to diagnosis. In short, this means that a ‘patient’ is assumed to have an underlying ‘pathology’ that manifests as various ‘symptoms’ that are assessed to make a ‘diagnosis’ and then apply a ‘treatment’ to said diagnosis. This approach basically makes various human conditions into ‘illnesses’ that need ‘interventions’ like medication or cognitive behavioral therapy. In a recent paper, BPS has criticized this framework as harmful to individuals and the public.

“The Society is concerned that clients and the general public are negatively affected by the continued and continuous medicalisation of their natural and normal responses to their experiences; responses which undoubtedly have distressing consequences which demand helping responses, but which do not reflect illnesses so much as normal individual variation. (p.1)”

“We believe that classifying these problems as ‘illnesses’ misses the relational context of problems and the undeniable social causation of many such problems. For psychologists, our well-being and mental health stem from our frameworks of understanding of the world, frameworks which are themselves the product of the experiences and learning through our lives. (p.4)”

As a practicing psychologist who also teaches a class on diagnosis for master’s level therapists, I could not be more excited reading this paper. BPS essentially takes a more humanistic and social constructivist approach to the problems of living. The benefits of this include reducing stigma, a larger focus on the interpersonal dimensions of mental health, and normalizing the experience of having problems during life. Cheers to you BPS, now if only your American counterparts would get the message…

_{Dr Will Meek is a psychologist practicing in Vancouver, WA. He writes regularly about mental health on his blog: Vancouver Psychologist}

Answer to the Friday Puzzle….

Richard Wiseman is a wonderful psychologist and he always publishes these cool puzzles.

Answer to the Friday Puzzle….: "
On Friday I posted this puzzle. This triangle is constructed from 10 coins. What is the smallest number of coins that need to be moved to make the triangle point downwards?

If you have not tried to solve it, have a go now. For everyone else the answer is after the break.



The answer is…..three!

Did you solve it? Any other answers?

This is the web right now

This is the web right now:

The State of the Web, Summer 2011

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