Burning through continuing ed online
Work has eased up a bit, and I've got some online mojo going so now my plan is to complete all my CEs for 2014 and 2015 over the next couple of months. We can apply any APA approved CE hours earned in the two years previous to license renewal. I'm already well above what I need for 2014, so everything from now on spills over into 2015. (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - August 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Billionaires Fighting
Singing on the remix of Flawless, Beyonce explains her sister's assault on husband, Jay Z: “We escalate, up in this bitch like elevators/ Of course sometimes sh– go down, when there’s a billion dollars on an elevator.” Ah yes, of course billionaire's sometimes have fistfights in elevators. Remember how Warren Buffet and his niece got into it in an elevator? Then there was Bill Gates punching out his sister-in-law. And don't even get me started on what Oprah did when... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - August 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Can a higher unemployment rate be good news?
Yes, says Rex Nutting at Market Watch: The number of people who are counted as officially unemployed rose by 197,000, with most of the increase due to people rejoining the labor force or entering for the first time. Just 50% of the 9.67 million unemployed people are there because they lost a job; the rest are people who have started looking for work. [...] It’s a hopeful sign that so many people are beginning to look for work after so... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - August 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Women's Laughter As Sin
Oh, good grief: Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter to protest comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who had urged women not to laugh in public to "protect moral values," according to the Reuters news agency. [..] Arinc, one of the co-founders of Erdogan's AK Party, said this week at a celebration of the end of Ramadan: "The woman should have chastity. ... She should not laugh in front of everyone and not be... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - August 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Continuing with continuing ed
This morning I completed an online CE course to meet my ethics requirement. With this particular educational organization, participants can view the test before taking the course, so that's what I did. I answered 19 out of the 20 exam questions correctly before actually taking the course. The item I got wrong was this sort of question: BabaLooey (2007) describes which leg of a three-legged stool as "perhaps the most important"? (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Woman Holding A Dog In A Tutu (B/W)
I didn't get much chance to shoot over the weekend, so I went back to some photos taken at the end of June. Though I prefer this one in color, I like black and white, too. Color below the fold. (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Chicago Photos Front Page Local Photos Source Type: blogs
Overheard
Two women walking by: Woman 1: Not my circus. Not my monkey. Woman 2: Then whose monkey? (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Saturday Snaps ctd
I posted this on Saturday, but somehow it unposted, so that's why the title refers to Friday. Last night, I read a Trib article about Illinois high school students releasing alligator snapping turtles in Southern Illinois. I've never seen a snapping turtle in Illinois and, to be honest, I didn't know if we had snapping turtles in Illinois. Only time I ever saw them in the wild was in the South, most recently in Florida, in small golf course lakes... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Yikes?
WaPo: On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely missed a catastrophic encounter with the Earth’s atmosphere. These plasma clouds, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), comprised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years. “If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” physicist Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado tells NASA. And NASA’s online article about the science of this solar storm... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
The police have arrested two in the Orange Line robbery
As expected, it didn't take long. See post last week. Something interesting I read earlier in the week was that one of the suspects was identified using facial recognition software that presumably matched surveillance images to mugshots. That seems like a reach given the poor quality of the surveillance images, but perhaps the software created a pool of possible matches for further investigation. (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Let's talk about Israel and Gaza
or not. Daley Show (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 27, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Societal Effects on Schizophrenia or Sampling Problems?
Boston Globe: Surprising new research on schizophrenia suggests, however, that people with mental illness may have stronger, stranger ties to their societies than we commonly assume. In a new article in the British Journal of Psychiatry, Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann explains that for schizophrenics experiencing auditory hallucinations, the cultures they live in shape the voices they hear in their minds. Most psychiatric research is conducted by scientists. Luhrmann argues, though, that the same psychiatric condition can express itself differently in... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page neuropsychology neuroscience & Psychoanalysis Source Type: blogs
Saturday Snapshot
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Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Chicago Photos Front Page Local Photos Source Type: blogs
Comfortably Numb
At the dentist, waiting for the fifth round anesthetic injections to take effect. This should do it. I can chew off my own lower lip now. (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Protest Photos ctd
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Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - July 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Chicago Photos Front Page Local Photos Source Type: blogs
