Walter Logeman: Journal
Cyberspace the liberator is now a tyrant’s tool | Bryan Appleyard – Times Online:
Cyberspace the liberator is now a tyrant’s tool Utopians believed the internet would be an unstoppable force for democracy, but the bad guys have got wise
There is something that does not ring right about this article, or perhaps the work of Ron Diebert. The take on this data is a bit weird, though the facts might be right.
More quotes and more of my comments and an experiment follows.
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Got this via Louvre iPhone app. Cropped. Wonderful!
This is from “Where Grows the Bitter Herb” by Ben Powis
Updated my Writing Page. It has been updated since (Sunday, 05 June 2022) and is now here.
I am currently working on two papers, both requirements for becoming a TEP, Trainer, Educator and Practitioner in Psychodrama, these are not on my page yet! Soon? :
Principals of Supervision
Principals of Training
Did this on the phone, in Layers. Exported to ArtRage on the Toshiba M200. Resized from 512 to 1000 px sq. Deleted some bit, highlighted others, added some ink! All still using the layers!
More on the Lancet study of psychotherapy online, from Brainblogger.
Logging On for Psychotherapy | Brain Blogger:
A recent issue of The Lancet reports that real-time online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in treating patients with depression. The study evaluated nearly 300 patients from 55 general practice clinics across the United Kingdom who had a diagnosis of depression. The patients were randomly assigned to either receive online CBT in addition to their usual care from the general practitioner, or be placed on an 8-month waiting list for CBT while still receiving their usual care. At the 4-month follow-up, 38% of the CBT group had recovered from their depression, compared to only 24% in the control group. After 8 months, 42% of the patients receiving CBT had recovered, compared to 26% in the control group.
In the comments I wrote:
Good to see the research. While there may not be such easy to collate evidence for depth psychology and psychotherapy using the online therapeutic relationship as the main focus of the work, from my practice in this field it can be done. The use of imagination is enhanced while writing, hence often the book is better than the film.
Post on PsyBlog. Interesting to call it the psychological immune system. I have always called them “coping mechanisms” and we need them. But because they are unconscious, it is useful to monitor them consciously, especially when they are old and out of date, like coping by over-eating, or coping by over-working.
The unconscious is wise. The unconscious is stupid.
The Psychological Immune System | PsyBlog:
The very fact that we don’t seem to notice our psychological immune system is probably the only reason it works at all. After all, in order to feel better we have to conveniently forget some important facts, such as how much we wanted the job we didn’t get, loved the partner who walked out or were enjoying the ice cream we just dropped.
Interestingly the point I am making in this comment is made very well by the image used in the original. We could be walking around like this – long after the air is clean.
