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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

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That reaction illustrates how contingent these psychological categories are. They are not fixed, universal truths; they are constructed within particular historical and social moments. They lack finitude, mortality, and the ability to construct purpose in the way that humans do. This is also, by the way, something AI cannot do.

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Mad in America

A healing hospital would adopt philosophies and principles of design, construction, material use, energy and water use, regeneration of the natural environment and all other measures that protect and heal our biosphere. In order for the world and our communities to survive, we need to radically adapt our ways.