by Jack Carney | Nov 30, 2015 | Mad In America
“Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote, 1605-15 Since April, 1999, when fifteen Columbine High School students were shot and killed and...
by Jack Carney | Sep 8, 2015 | Mad In America
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. — Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1978 (Editor’s note: This blog is an excerpt from Jack Carney’s book Nation of Killers: Guns, Violence, White...
by Jack Carney | Mar 17, 2014 | Mad In America
Greetings. It seems that somebody’s passing is the only thing that will stir me sufficiently to write about what’s going on in this benighted country. I had anticipated writing this a week or two ago but I got sidetracked. It’s certainly not too late, since Hoffman’s...
by Jack Carney | Jan 29, 2014 | Mad In America
A great American passed away the other day. Ordinarily, I never indulge in such chauvinism, but how else can you describe Pete Seeger? Who else has contributed as much to the country’s emotional and spiritual well-being? I haven’t posted to this site for more than two...
by Jack Carney | Dec 2, 2013 | Mad In America
I. DSM-5 Boycott: Yes, the boycott of the DSM-5 continues. I can’t tell you how many fewer DSMs have so far been purchased as a result of the boycott; and conversations I have had with professionals in New York’s public mental health system lead me to believe that...
by Jack Carney | Jul 23, 2013 | Mad In America
Introduction: The article below was originally accepted for November publication in a small British academic review for psychology students. On the heels of its acceptance, the article was rejected by a senior editor who, for unknown reasons, decided that what I wrote...
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