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While remote services may break down physical barriers, say some skeptics, they may erect emotional ones to the detriment of the care provided. "All day long, I pay attention to the disconnect between people's words and what they are really feeling," says Dr. Eric Plakun, chair of the American Psychiatric Association committee on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists. "Tuning in to nonverbal communication is an essential part of the psychotherapy process, and even with a video interface, that seems to be a pretty complicated burden to put on a limited means of communication." Even silences during a therapy session, notes Plakun...
That's why, despite its obvious benefits, even advocates of online therapy don't consider it a substitute for in-the-flesh sessions. "Hell, no," says Dr. Alexander Obolsky, a psychiatrist at Northwestern University School of Medicine and a proponent of remote services. "Nothing is going to replace a well-trained psychiatrist providing face-to-face treatment. But it may bring a different set of patients to mental health who can benefit." Patients like the women Stark has reached. Even if the only advantage of telemental health were to bring like-suffering people together on the Web, say experts, that...
...biggest hallmark of the younger generation of Palestinians is their inability to move," says Dr. Karma Nabulsi, a professor of politics and international relations at Oxford University. But the internet knows no borders and neither, says Abukeshek, does the Palestinian cause. Their reduced mobility, combined with increasing internet access, has led the stone-throwing Palestinian children who, for many, became the lasting image of the first intifada in the late 1980s and early 90s, to bring their resistance online during the second. Sociologists call the movement "e-Palestine": a feeling of nationhood cultivated online by young members of the fractured...
...formalize an online political mobilization plan for young Palestinians on the ground throughout the world. To this end, the organization is bringing together 150 Palestinians from 28 countries for a summit in Madrid in early November. "Everyone thought that bottom-up mobilization was dead [in America]." Says Dr. Nabulsi. "But they got a shock with Obama, and I see it also with the young Palestinians." And although he says he disagrees with Barack Obama's politics, particularly on maintaining an undivided Jerusalem, Abukeshek says he is encouraged by the influence the presidential candidate's online campaign...
...Peter took time to make them feel that they were already an integral part of the orchestra. I always admired the genuine desire he had to make people feel at ease.” “It’s unthinkable that the world will not have a Dr. Peter Cai in the future,” Ye added. Anupriya Singhal ’09 and Cai were certified as CPR instructors together two years ago before becoming co-directors of Harvard Emergency Medical Services last summer. Although the group normally focused on training Harvard students, Cai decided...