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Children who have been traumatized in this way can begin to come to terms with their psychic wounds, but Fassler warns that it's not easy. The first rule, he stresses, is not to push things. "We used to feel we had to rush in and have kids report everything that happened right away," he says. "Now we feel it's best to let them tell the story when they're ready, at their own pace." This, he concedes, often puts doctors at odds with law-enforcement officials, who tend to need as much information as they...
...Dune saga made a good fit in that it's a space opera with a philosophical bent. Dune tells of the rise to power of Paul Atreides (Alec Newman), a young noble and psychic who is adopted by the Fremen, a nomadic warrior people, as their messiah. The Fremen have been exploited for centuries because their desert planet (Arrakis, or Dune) is the sole source of "spice," a substance that makes hyperspace travel possible, expands consciousness and extends life--it's oil, LSD and Botox all in one. (Spice is an excretion of Dune's giant sandworms, but people ingested...
...close your eyes and think about it for a while, as philosophers have done for centuries, the world of the mind seems very different from the one inhabited by our bodies. The psychic space inside our heads is infinite and ethereal; it seems obvious that it must be made of different stuff than all the other organs. Cut into the body, and blood pours forth. But slice into the brain, and thoughts and emotions don't spill out onto the operating table. Love and anger can't be collected in a test tube to be weighed and measured...
...there something about our psychic makeup that makes one gender more vulnerable to some disorders than others? Or does it have more to do with societal roles? And if environment is the determining factor, will the illnesses that beset each sex change as society evolves...
...continues to mine two inexhaustible resources: the DC Comics library and the young male appetite for hot superheroines. The Huntress (Batman and Catwoman's daughter), wheelchair-bound Oracle and psychic Dinah fight crime while looking slick and zinging the requisite self-conscious jokes ("Is your spider-sense tingling?" one Bird needles another). But flat performances and stock comic-book story lines keep Birds grounded...