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🔗 Understanding and Ameliorating Revenge Fantasies in Psychotherapy -- Horowitz 164 (1): 24 -- Am J Psychiatry

Ellen had revenge fantasies toward her husband, Max, because she held him responsible for the accidental death of their 10-year-old son, Morgan. Instead of taking Morgan to ski on an intermediate slope as planned, Max had impulsively selected an advanced slope. Morgan hit a tree and later died of a head injury.

🔗 Down and out

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Through this process I have discovered a deeper level of compassion. It is a compassion rooted in the real world, and it includes myself. I realized that the compassion I used to have was detached and aloof. I was at the same time disconnected from patients yet overinvested in them. My aloofness and disconnectedness also caused a degree of social ineptitude and a lack of perception that made me capable at times of being a jerk to peers and co-workers. I am more self-possessed now and more genuinely connected with other people.

🔗 جريدة الأهرام - الصفحة الأولى ـ بعد كثرة الحكم به في الفترة الأخيرة الإعـــــــــدام‏..‏ بيــن التأييــد والمعارضـة خبراء القانون يؤكدون‏

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أننا اذا كنا ننكر حق الدولة في إزهاق روح المحكوم عليه بالإعدام فإننا ننكر بذلك حق الدولة في العقاب بالنسبة لجميع أنواع العقوبات‏,‏ كما أن عقوبة الإعدام تتناسب في جسامتها عادة مع الجرائم التي توقع من أجلها وبالنسبة للاخطاء البشرية والتي قد ترد عمن يوقع العقاب فإن كل الأحكام القضائية تصدر عن بشر ومعظم العقوبات تخضع لتلك المشكلة‏,‏ فهل معني ذلك أن نلغي كل العقوبات‏,‏ كما أن النفع الجماعي الذي يعود علي المجتمع من عقوبة الإعدام كبير والضمانات التي وضعتها التشريعات القانونية لتلافي الاخطاء القضائية كفيلة بأن تمنع أو تقلل هذه الاخطاء البشرية‏.‏

🔗 OpenMRS - OpenMRS

OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions.

🔗 Defining the Obscene - Daily News Egypt

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I’m not defending obscenity; I just don’t know what it is. Obscenity is a very subjective term; what’s obscene for you might not be obscene for me and vice versa. Confining one or a small group of people to decide it is wishful thinking. Values and morals are also loose terms that cannot be shoved down people’s throats.

🔗 Religion, agnostics, and the cure for baldness | The Smirking Chimp

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But this sort of thinking is exactly what most agnostics find ridiculous about religion and religious people, who seem incapable of looking at the world unless it’s through the prism of some kind of belief system. They seem to think that if one doesn’t believe in God, one must believe in something else, because to live without answers would be intolerable. And maybe that’s true of the humorless Richard Dawkins, who does seem actually to have tried to turn atheism into a kind of religion unto itself. But there are plenty of other people who are simply comfortable not knowing the answers. It always seemed weird to me that this quality of not needing an explanation and just being cool with what few answers we …