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Charleston shooting is not about mental illness

Last week, on Wednesday June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old gunman by the name of Dylann Roof shot dead nine people attending Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The shooter was detained Thursday morning during a traffic stop in North Carolina. Friends reported that Roof (who is white) had said that he wanted to start a new civil…

Workers’ Rights are a mental health issue

Happy May Day! Today, most of the world celebrates International Workers’ Day with commemorations, demonstrations, and vacations. However, absent from this celebration is the United States, which is ironic, since the day has American origins. On May 1, 1886, workers in Chicago, many of them immigrants, walked out of their jobs, striking for an eight-hour work day. A few days…

Am I an Anarchist?

This post is part of CTC’s Reflections from our Clinicians series. These series consists of blogs written in the first person narrative, meant to reflect our values of independence while ensuring a broader diversity of topics, styles and opinions.   New York, April 19, 2015 This weekend while attending the New York City Anarchist Book Fair I was asked whether…

Lena Dunham ignites conversations about siblings and sexuality

Within the clinical diagnosis of childhood sexual abuse category, sibling incest is a common form of childhood sexual trauma in the United States (Brand & Alexander, 2003), yet often disregarded in public debates.  More recently, Lena Dunham’s memoir, Not That Kind of Girl brought the topic of sibling sexual abuse to the forefront. In her book, Dunham tells stories how…

Baseball, A-Rod, and Psychotherapy

CTC decided to introduce a couple of posts reflecting some of the opinions and perspectives of our clinicians. This new endeavor will consist of blogs written in the first person narrative, meant to reflect our values of independence while ensuring a broader diversity of topics, styles and opinions. NYC. February 17th 2015 News headlines: Fans don’t accept Alex Rodriguez written…

Love and Psychotherapy

Happy Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day is often associated with love, especially romantic love.  Yet love is much more expansive than romantic love, for love encompasses care and connection, and it does not require romantic feelings.  In the days leading up to February 14th this year, and while looking at the bright red lights on the Empire State Building right in…

CTC at 3 – Thank You!

Happy New Year! January 2015 marks the three year anniversary of the Critical Therapy Center. We are having an amazing journey as we continue to grow, learn and think about ways psychotherapy and psychology interact with everyday life. Throughout 2014 we have served an even broader range of people struggling with an array of issues. We have also helped executives…

MLK – Towards a Radical Revolution of Values

There are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which . . . I never intend to become adjusted to — segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to…

In Memory of Ignacio Martin-Baró

November marks the 25th anniversary of liberation psychologist Ignacio Martin-Baró’s assassination in El Salvador by a counter-insurgency unit created at the US Army’s School of the Americas in 1980.  On November 16, 1989, Martin-Baró was murdered by the Salvadoran government’s elite Atlacatl Battalion. The massacre is detailed in the Report of the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador. For us,…

October 11 – International Day of the Girl Child

Two years ago, the United Nations declared October 11th as the International Day of the Girl Child to raise awareness about all issues concerning gender inequality around the world. Today we are celebrating its two year anniversary. This year’s theme focuses on empowering adolescent girls: ending the cycle of violence. The International Day of the Girl Child is a day…

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