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The role of social media and sexual trauma cannot be ignored in conversations about ‘mental illness’

Considering that psychology has a history of failing to address sexual trauma, how can it respond to the rising tide of sexual traumatization occurring online?

Making the political personal: how psychology undermines feminist activism

Feminists should be more concerned about the way the therapy model individualizes women’s oppression and professionalizes empathy.

Horny men, desperate women, and hookup culture: How evolutionary psychology and Margaret Wente get most things wrong

Margaret Wente is doing her part to contribute to the desperately needed cannon of writing that encourages women to live in fear of growing old, man-free. These kinds of pieces have been…

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The role of social media and sexual trauma cannot be ignored in conversations about ‘mental illness’

Making the political personal: how psychology undermines feminist activism

Horny men, desperate women, and hookup culture: How evolutionary psychology and Margaret Wente get most things wrong