Word: mentalism
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...protected by the right to free speech does not mean that it should not be held morally responsible for printing cartoons, such as “Cultural Stoichiometry,” (comic strip, Mar. 13) that are not only blatantly unfunny but also offensive and stigmatizing of grave mental health issues. In its depiction of a thesis writer who has hanged himself, presumably due to the stress caused by his impending deadline, the cartoon trivializes suicide and contributes to the casual attitude toward mental illness that is all too widely held in our society. Every time a piece like this...
...wake of recent publicity toward campus mental health issues, I was shocked to see an illustration of suicide as a set-up to a punchline. The artist meant no offense, but his lack of awareness only demonstrates that in the fight to reduce the stigma of mental illness, we still have a long, long...
...Vietnam's rules of adoption call for Jolie to send the orphanage regular reports and photos of Pax's progress. "For Sang's case," says Trung, Tam Binh's director, "she is required to send a report every six months updating us about his health, mental development, hobbies - and a photo," says Trung. "It's required for the first three years. After three years, it's not required because we can see if the kids are being taken care of for the first three years so we can be assured they are in the good home...
...rights movement, Barbara Gittings changed the lives of those in her community with an elegant act: coming out in the 1950s. In that ultraconservative era, she founded the New York arm of the first national organization for lesbians and later lobbied to change the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. The sign she carried at a 1965 White House protest--SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS IRRELEVANT TO FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT--now resides at the Smithsonian. She was 75 and had breast cancer...
There's psychology at work here too. Lawrence Solan, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and an expert in linguistics and the law, explains that we can process an abstract word like doubt only by contrasting two mental images. In a criminal case, the first image would be the prosecutor's version of events, showing the defendant as guilty. The second would portray the defendant as innocent. Only if the second were plausible, says Solan, would the jury have "doubt" about the first. Jurors might themselves be able to conjure the image of the defendant's innocence, but most need...