Guest is Denice Labertew. She is a women’s rights advocate, professor, and former US envoy to foreign states – providing policy guidance to protect the rights of women and girls. Her work includes negotiating regulations in the Violence Against Women Act, and advocating for human rights at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review – on the US Treatment of migrant women and girls detained at the US/Mexican border.
Guest: Judith Herman, MD, formerly a full-time Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School; and co-founder former Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry, at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including the groundbreaking book, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.
Discussion on the insidiousness and pervasiveness of domestic abuse – and the mistreatment of victims by the very people and institutions that should be protecting them. How these institutions have functioned for generations with impunity, including the Catholic Church, Hollywood, government and even the private sector. She explores what it is like for victims who suffer repeated abuse as well as institutional bias – where victims are treated with contempt by society, by the judicial system and even their own families.
October 26, 2020 – In my recent interview with Dr. Roger Pitman, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and practitioner at Massachusetts General Hospital, we discussed many issues including PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which has as its hallmark, debilitating memories, flashbacks, and intense emotions that traumatized women,…
How and Why Donald Trump Could Lie to the American People with Impunity and Without Remorse. What that says about the psychopathology of the person, and why so many people still support and even vote for a man that lies with impunity, and denigrates veterans and the disabled. What that says about the man himself – Trump – and the people that support him. Dr. Norrholm, a translational neuroscientist, brings the many psychopathologies of Trump to the forefront.
COVID Comes to America – 2020 September 28, 2020 – The duty of any leader, whether a CEO, president, or school superintendent, is to protect the interests of those they represent – whether it’s shareholders or members, school children and teachers, or the American public. Just as a parent has…
Discussion on what is PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how it can be combated to bring people experiencing painful repetitive memories some peace. Noted doctor who has researched PTSD for most of his career talks about how it affects Veterans of War and Domestic Violence Victims – while explaining Treatment Options Available to Move Them Forward.
