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Psychology is the scientific study ofbehavior andmind. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, bothconscious andunconscious phenomena, and mental processes such asthoughts,feelings, andmotives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between thenatural andsocial sciences. Biological psychologists seek an understanding of theemergent properties of brains, linking the discipline toneuroscience. As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups.
A professional practitioner or researcher involved in the discipline is called apsychologist. Some psychologists can also be classified asbehavioral orcognitive scientists. Some psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual andsocial behavior. Others explore thephysiological andneurobiological processes that underlie cognitive functions and behaviors.
As part of aninterdisciplinary field, psychologists are involved in research onperception,cognition,attention,emotion,intelligence,subjective experiences,motivation,brain functioning, andpersonality. Psychologists' interests extend tointerpersonal relationships,psychological resilience,family resilience, and other areas withinsocial psychology. They also consider the unconscious mind. Research psychologists employempirical methods to infercausal andcorrelational relationships between psychosocialvariables. Some, but not all,clinical andcounseling psychologists rely onsymbolic interpretation. (Full article...)
Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids is anon-fiction book byMaia Szalavitz analyzing the controversy surrounding thetroubled teen industry. The book was published February 16, 2006, byRiverhead Books. Szalavitz focuses on four programs:Straight, Incorporated, a copy of the Straight Inc. program called KIDS, North Star wilderness boot camp, and theWorld Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. She discusses the background, history and methodology of the troubled-teen industry, including techniques drawn fromattack therapy andSynanon. She uses first-person accounts and court testimony in her research, and states that no evidence exists proving that these programs are effective. The book also includes advice for parents and an appendix with additional resources on how to get responsible help for teenagers.
The book received positive reviews inacademic journals, literary journals, and in the media.PsychologistSteve K. D. Eichel reviewed the book forCultic Studies Review and called it a "must read", psychologist andpsychiatrist Robert John McAllister described it as "an excellent and informative book on the subject of the 'troubled-teen industry' " in his bookEmotions: Mystery Or Madness, and a review inPsychology Today described Szalavitz's work as "a meticulously reported and thoughtful investigation". The book also received positive reviews inPublishers Weekly,Booklist, andNewsday. The book later led to an investigation into the troubled-teen industry by theUnited States House Committee on Education and Labor of theUnited States House of Representatives, and RepresentativeGeorge Miller held hearings on the matter in October 2007 and April 2008. (Full article...)
John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at theUniversity of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for promotinganti-Black racism through his widely discredited research onrace and intelligence,race and crime, and other purportedracial correlations.
Rushton's work has been heavily criticized by the scientific community for the poor quality of its research, with many academics arguing that it was conducted under aracist agenda. From 2002 until his death, he served as the head of thePioneer Fund, an organization founded in 1937 to promoteeugenics, which has been described asracist andwhite supremacist in nature, and as ahate group by theSouthern Poverty Law Center. He also published articles in and spoke at conferences organized by the white supremacist magazineAmerican Renaissance. (Full article...)
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