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Tom & Jerry The Cat in the Hat Wile E. Coyote & the Road Runner In the best of circumstances, we are taught the golden rule as toddlers by our parents and how best to play in a sandbox in kindergarten. Many social scientists would argue that some of the most important lessons in life are learned in the sandbox: share your toys; don’t kick sand in other’s faces; and don’t let the sandbox become cat litter. We are hard-wired to be social animals, and yet very few of us live kum

What is it? Why now? Autism has been in the news a lot lately, and the news is scary. Who do we believe? Who are the experts? What’s in the water? The American Psychiatric Association defines autism as a disorder of human relatedness. It is a persistent impairment in reciprocal social interactions and communication, sometimes accompanied by motoric stereotypies or idiosyncratic interests. These impairments must be present since early childhood and demonstrate impairment in a

AI generated image Psychedelics have been used since the neolithic period in human history, with documented evidence of mescaline being used by civilizations in the Americas for the last 6,000 years. Pharmacologically, a psychedelic is a substance that produces profound alterations in perception, cognition, mood, and consciousness, primarily through stimulation of one of the many types of serotonin receptors in the brain. Most antidepressants in use today also target the sero

In every life there will be times of great pain and distress as part of our human condition. We experience trauma. There is no sentient life without it. Trauma and our response to trauma are documented in the historical record since antiquity. There are paleolithic cave paintings of warring cave dwellers raining horrific violence upon each other. The Assyrians described victorious soldiers being visited by the ghosts of soldiers killed in battle. Classical Greek histor