On “Managed Care”

Insurance in the news.
This is from Slate’s Today’s Papers feature. I’ll be examining some of the issues surrounding managed care, how they effect mental health practitioners of all stripes, sometime [in the next weeks].
The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal’s world-wide newsbox lead with new census figures that show the number [...]

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Psychology in the Media: Not As Bad-As-Usual

Importance of a “good fit”.
Today the New York Times is running a piece on psychotherapy by a psychiatrist. It’s not as bad as the usual Times articles on this topic. The headline is good, emphasizing the importance of a “good fit” in the relationship between one and one’s therapist. This is critical.
And it speaks to [...]

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APA Votes Down Moratorium on Interrogations

A piece in the San Francisco Chronicle confirms that APA overwhelmingly voted down the moratorium on interrogations. This seems like a case of APA falling short, but I’m waiting to hear more about this decision and the debate surrounding it.
Here’s a second, slightly more informative Chronicle article.
And another story, this one at the Washington Post.
In [...]

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Psychologists and Interrogation

A role in prescription privileges?!
There’s been some press on psychologists’ role in interrogations, for instance, at Salon.com, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair.
On Friday, the ACLU called on the American Psychological Association (APA) to prohibit members from participating in torture. This morning, August 19, there was to be a vote at the APA convention proposing a [...]

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Next Likely Post: August 22

Time to get away.
I’ll be vacationing this and next week. It is quite unlikely that there’ll be any posts to this blog during that time.
Kalea Chapman, Psy.D.

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Arguing Persuasion

Cialdini on unconscious modes of persuasion.
I mentioned Cialdini in an earlier post, a social psychologist, whose books you can find in the business section. (A recent New York Times article “Who’s Minding the Mind?” covered the surprising range and variety of powerful ways we can be manipulated — without any conscious knowledge of what is [...]

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Smooth Persuaders: Leveraging Human Nature

This is the fourth entry in a series on the implications of psychologists pursuing prescription privileges. What those implications are exactly, is far from clear — they ought to bear close scrutiny. Others in the series include:
Psychology and “Big Pharma”
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: An Intro to “Pro” Arguments
Presciptive Authority: Strong Arguments
An important rule of [...]

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Presciptive Authority: Strong Arguments

This is the third entry in a series on the implications of psychologists pursuing prescription privileges. What those implications are exactly, is far from clear — they ought to be examined very closely. Others in the series include:
Psychology and “Big Pharma”
Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: An Intro to “Pro” Arguments
Some stronger arguments:
Here’s an outline of [...]

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