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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | March 2005 |  | | Will Justice Be Served on Andrea Yates? | | Richard E. Vatz | | "At all costs, the country must avoid a release at some future date of Mrs. Yates, for the sake of those who loved--or even for those who have followed the devastating saga of--the murdered Yates children." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | November 2005 | | | Therapy Overload on Campus | | Richard E. Vatz | | The problem w/ the ever-burgeoning number of students who rely on counseling centers is that they become dependent on the ministrations & compensations offered by liberal universities intent on helping those who merely need a...dose of self-sufficiency. | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | November 2004 | | | The Quandary Over Mental Illness | | Richard E. Vatz | | "For the vast majority of untoward behaviors labeled as mental illness, [some critics of psychiatry contend] that they are freely chosen behaviors for which the agent must take responsibility. . . ." | | |
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| Category: | Political Landscape | Published: | May 2008 | | | The Obama vs. Clinton Sincerity Sweepstakes | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | " 'You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and place it in the navel of a flea, and still have room left for three caraway seeds and an agent's heart.' It is much the same in American politics." | | |
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| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | March 2007 | | | The Devil Made Them Do It | | Richard E. Vatz | | "When it comes to ascertaining what motivates killers or others to violate the law, the forensic psychiatric community stands waiting and willing to lend its impossible to disprove fanciful, scientific-appearing explanations to mystify juries, attys. . ." | | |
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| Category: | Mass Media | Published: | May 2009 | | | The (Liberal) Beat Goes On | | Richard E. Vatz | | "Over the . . . last two decades, there may be no more salient disagreement between liberals and conservatives than over the issue of media bias." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | July 2001 | | | Sexual Predator Statutes and Psychiatric Confusion | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | ". . . The use of psychiatry to commit offenders where there is little hope of rehabilitation and scant medical grounds to justify confinement could lead society down the slippery slope of abuse." | | |
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| Category: | Athletic Arena | Published: | July 2008 | | | Saluting Pittsburgh's Finest | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | "Understanding the magnitude of [Roberto] Clemente requires an appreciation of the gestalt of his presence, which was greater than the sum of his statistics. . . ." | | |
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| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | March 2011 | | | The Insanity Excuse and Retrograde Thinking | | Richard E. Vatz | | "There is no excuse . . . For major, sophisticated public opinion-makers simply to ignore the evidence that criminals should be held responsible for their crimes." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | March 2008 | | | Psychiatry's Valid but Dishonest Reconsiderations | | Richard E. Vatz , Jeffrey A. Schaler | | "Much of the newest wave of psychiatric self-criticism is salutary and headed in the right direction; the problem is the field's unwillingness to credit the psychiatrist who paved the way." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | March 2001 | | | Problems in Diagnosing and Treating ADD/ADHD | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | "The difficulties in finding a panacea for entrenched, maladaptive behavior in children do not provide sufficient justification for plunging into a nationwide pharmacopoeia for solutions." | | |
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| Category: | American Thought | Published: | May 2006 | | | Of What Value Are Public Opinion Polls? | | Richard E. Vatz | | "To the extent that public opinion should not be ignored completely, citizens also should realize that public opinion polls are not synonymous with public opinion." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | September 2004 | | | John Hinckley: The Judge Should Have Just Said "No" | | Richard E. Vatz | | ". . . While supporting and promoting rehabilitation are important, there are other classic purposes of punishment and incarceration which may supercede it. . . ." | | |
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| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | March 2004 | | | Getting Away with Murder: Vincent Gigante and Exculpatory Psychiatry | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | "Gigante's guilty plea should send a message to psychiatrists who too easily take up the cudgel provided by their psychiatric ethos to become hired guns for those trying to escape criminal responsibility." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | May 2003 | | | Gambling, Psychology, and State Politics | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | "Those who gamble too much and suffer significant losses--whether through lotteries, slots, or other means--choose to do so irresponsibly. No force extrinsic to willpower makes them." | | |
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| Category: | Psychology | Published: | July 2007 | | | Any Lessons from Virginia Tech? | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | "The ultimate frustration engendered by a mass murderer is that there are no fail-safe methods to ensure that a similar catastrophe or a worse one will not occur." | | |
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| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | September 2008 | | | Accommodating the Killer | | Richard E. Vatz | | "When defense mental health 'experts' testify to a lack of a defendant's criminal intent, these 'hired guns' are aiming to have the perpetrator confined to a psychiatric institution rather than a jail." | | |
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| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | March 2010 | | | Doing Away with the "Only One-Fourth of One Percent" Solution | | Richard E. Vatz | | "Psychiatrists engage in many phony practices but none phonier than the insanity defense." | | |
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| Category: | Law & Justice | Published: | September 2010 | | | Bullying by Any Other Name. . . | | Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg | | ". . . The juvenile versions of assault, battery, and harassment must be treated seriously, fairly, and firmly. Our children should not be forced to experience their school years at a life of constantly living in panic and fearing for their safety." | | |
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| Category: | Education | Published: | September 2011 | | | Diversity in the Academy: In All but Ideas | | Richard E. Vatz | | "College and university administrators and faculty throughout the U.S. cannot reconcile their support for diversity with their discriminatory policies against conservatives, and there is no source motivating them to do so." | | |
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| Category: | Life in America | Published: | May 2012 | | | Sorry Is the Hardest Word | | Richard E. Vatz | | When public policy issue debate leads to nasty, irrelevant personal attack, as mandated insurance for contraception has in the case of Rush Limbaugh, opponents will turn the issue to the untowardness of the attack and ignore the points at issue. | | |
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