Confronting Worldview Panic

Very few things threaten people more than having their worldview challenged. And when something arises that threatens their worldview, the first reaction is to destroy it.We see this with Hurricane Carter. Since he was a child he was seen as a dangerous individual. What made...

The Hypocrisy of Personality Psychology

The people who push "personal growth," claiming it to lead to compassion, and prosecute "personality disorders" under the claim that these result in non-compassionate conduct, are the same people who themselves think and operate in ways that are in no way compassionate....

Racket Anger and Domestic Violence

Once while visiting a petting zoo, I saw a lion cub growling, with a very angry tone and expression, at goats that were walking around. The goats of course had done nothing to irritate the lion cub, and the lion cub had no reason to be angry at them. Rather for the lion cub...

Do You Know What is Good & Bad Mental Health Legislation?

The answer might be different than what you would think.Good legislation expands the rights and protection of those labeled with mental disorders and bad legislation would take those rights and protections away.  It would also prevent people from wrongfully being put...

Psychology of Uncaring

The baby boom generation started out as caring for the world and the people in it, then suddenly toward the end of 1970s went to not only being completely non caring, but in fact aggressively so and hateful of those who were. While there may be many reasons for this, I...

Analyzing Worldviews

For a number of years in the previous decade, I was a practicing Christian. Having come from a Jewish atheist background, I am often asked why did I go to Christianity at all. One reason was that people whom I respected were urging me to go to Christianity or were telling me...

Sustainable Development vs. Artificial Armageddon

In 1998, after observing activities of the Christian Right in California where I was living and working, I predicted what was going to happen. And it did. I knew what they were up to, and I described them as Nazis of America. I knew that they were going to seriously...

Ayn Rand and Relationships

In Eric Banden's memoir, there is a situation in which he asks Ayn Rand how she could have so precisely developed the Richard Rearden character in Atlas Shrugged. Her response: "It's a rational universe." She then elaborated that for every woman there is a male equivalent;...

Adlerian Simianism

With Alfred Adler, psychology took a turn toward the ridiculous and the atavistic. Adler claimed that people were driven by strife for the feelings of adequacy, and that anything else was a compensation for inadequacy real or perceived. With this claim, Adler...

Personality Disorders Holocaust

From larger essay "Errors In Psychology" at http://sites.google.com/site/ilyashambatwritings/psychology With personality psychology we see even worse outcomes. What we see in effect is an effectiveholocaust perpetrated against people accused of personality disorders, along...

The Ideology of Spree Shooters

It is not, nor it should be, surprising that the main spree shooters in recent times were all right-wingers. From Timothy McVeigh to Cam Cho to that idiot in Norway, the spree shooters were all right-wing ideologues who wanted to take it out on people who weren't quite what...