News :: sycophants
Couple of psychologists chartered by the American Psychological Association
- sister of the British Psychological Society- were hired by the Bush
Jr administration to designed CIA tortures for Guantanamo prisoners; all with
the complicity of their sycophantic association to this day
... more information in
DemocracyNow.org and in the website of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
Jaques-Allain Miller and his brother Gerard Miller the echo-liers imposteurs de la psychoanalysis who kidnapped and dishonored the Works of Jacques Lacan
Entretien d'Elizabeth Roudinesco dans Libération au sujet de la mise en cause de Gérard Miller
«Tout le monde voyait que Gérard Miller utilisait l’hypnose pour son propre plaisir»
L’historienne de la psychanalyse juge que son collègue lacanien, accusé de violences sexuelles par une cinquantaine de femmes, jette l’opprobre sur l’hypnothérapie en faisant de sa pratique un moyen de manipuler les êtres.
par Virginie Bloch-Lainé
On aurait pu croire que les accusations de viols, d’agressions sexuelles, et de tentatives d’agression sexuelles qui visent Gérard Miller, 75 ans, se traduiraient par une mise en cause de la psychanalyse, discipline dont il se présentait comme le spécialiste à chaque fois qu’il prenait la parole à la télévision. C’était sa grille de lecture de l’actualité. Ce n’est pas ce qui s’est passé. Depuis la révélation de l’affaire ce qui sidère le plus, c’est l’aveuglement de son entourage amical et professionnel, évoluant dans le milieu psychanalytique mais aussi dans les mondes médiatiques et politiques. La véhémence avec laquelle Gérard Miller s’exprimait et les sujets qui l’obsédaient (l’art de la manipulation, notamment) auraient pu être interprétés comme des signes inquiétants.
Historienne, présidente de la Société internationale de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, autrice de 'Jacques Lacan. Esquisse d’une vie, histoire d’un système de pensée' (Fayard, 1993) et de Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le nôtre (Seuil, 2014), Elisabeth Roudinesco replace l’hypnose, qu’il pratiquait sans être hypnothérapeute, dans l’histoire de la psychanalyse.
L’affaire Gérard Miller risque de jeter le discrédit sur l’hypnose. Pouvez-vous rappeler la naissance et l’histoire de cette thérapie?
L’hypnose remonte aux travaux sur le magnétisme animal de Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), médecin autrichien installé à Paris à la veille de la Révolution. Il a connu un succès considérable en améliorant l’état de patients qui souffraient de maladies nerveuses. Il posait sur eux des aimants – c’est le fameux baquet de Mesmer. C’était un homme des Lumières qui combattait l’exorcisme pour soigner des femmes que l’on prenait pour des possédées. Il a dégagé la maladie psychique de la religion. Mais il a fait l’erreur de croire qu’un fluide dit «magnétique» circulait entre le médecin et le patient. Une commission royale a été formée pour enquêter sur sa pratique, dont firent partie Benjamin Franklin et Antoine Lavoisier, lesquels ont récusé l’idée du fluide mais reconnu qu’une action psychologique était exercée par le médecin qui plongeait les patients dans un sommeil hypnotique, c’est-à-dire un état modifié de la conscience. On a appelé ce pouvoir un «report». Plus tard, la psychanalyse l’appellera le transfer. A la fin du XIXe siècle, Charcot utilise l’hypnose pour démontrer que l’hystérie n’est pas une simulation, mais une maladie des nerfs. Un pouvoir thérapeutique est reconnu à cette pratique grâce à laquelle des choses refoulées reviennent à la surface.
L’hypnose est-elle critiquée, à ce moment-là?
Oui. Dès le début, elle a son versant nocturne et alimente les fantasmes des complotistes selon lesquels modifier l’état de la conscience permet de manipuler politiquement les masses.
Que pense Freud de l’hypnose?
Il l’abandonne parce qu’il considère qu’elle ne fonctionne qu’avec les personnes fragiles sur lesquelles une emprise est possible. Or, son but est de montrer qu’il existe une universalité de la névrose, hommes et femmes confondus. Donc, Freud s’oriente vers la méthode des associations libres qu’est la psychanalyse. Mais ce n’est pas parce qu’il l’abandonne qu’elle cesse d’exister. Aujourd’hui, on ne désigne plus cette pratique par le mot d’hypnotisme mais par celui d’hypnothérapie.
Est-ce que le thérapeute qui l’utilise a plus de pouvoir qu’un autre thérapeute?
Tout thérapeute exerce un pouvoir sans lequel il ne peut pas y avoir de traitement psychique, mais le but est précisément de ne l’exercer que dans le cadre de la cure et de le dissoudre quand celle-ci s’achève. Il est interdit de maintenir un pouvoir sur un patient et de lui faire faire ce qu’il n’a pas envie de faire, même si le fantasme de la toute-puissance du thérapeute existe dans la relation transférentielle.
Les psychanalystes et les hypnothérapeutes sont-ils surveillés pour éviter les abus de pouvoir sur les patients?
Les abus sexuels existent mais sont rarement exposés publiquement. Il y a eu un cas médiatisé, c’est celui de Tony Anatrella, prêtre et psychanalyste, qui a fini par être sanctionné par l’Eglise pour abus sexuels sur des hommes, alors même qu’il pourfendait l’homosexualité au nom du catholicisme. Les associations de thérapeutes, toutes tendances confondues, ont des codes de déontologie plus ou moins stricts qui permettent aux patients de se plaindre. La Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), qui est la plus importante de France, sanctionne les abus. A cet égard, on peut s’étonner que l’Ecole de la cause freudienne (ECF) fondée par Jacques-Alain Miller, le frère de Gérard Miller, ait attendu le 13 février 2024 pour pousser celui-ci à démissionner de toutes les fonctions qu’il exerçait.
Avant cette affaire, Gérard Miller était-il un psychanalyste respecté?
Il a été désavoué par les sociétés psychanalytiques dans leur ensemble, qui rejettent ceux qui utilisent cette discipline pour interpréter publiquement le comportement des hommes politiques. Gérard Miller doit sa célébrité uniquement à des producteurs d’émissions de télévision qui, pendant trente ans, l’ont invité à proférer des diagnostics foudroyants en acceptant qu’il se présente comme l’incarnation même de la psychanalyse. Beaucoup de psychanalystes redoutent que cette affaire ne réveille les critiques émises contre leur discipline. Cela n’a pas été le cas.
Le comportement de Gérard Miller avec les femmes était-il connu de son entourage?
Tout le monde voyait qu’il utilisait l’hypnose pour son propre plaisir, comme une «expérience» – c’est le mot qu’il emploie – et non pas comme une thérapie. D’un côté, il se présente comme le représentant vertueux d’un lacanisme lumineux et, de l’autre, il se livre à des activités d’hypnotiseur nocturne. Dans son cabinet, aménagé dans un hôtel particulier, il reçoit des patients ordinaires et au sous-sol, dans un «home» sans fenêtres, il se livre à des expériences hypnotiques, alcoolisées, avec des femmes recrutées sur les plateaux de télévision.
Est-ce que le mot «expériences» aurait pu nous mettre sur la piste des abus sexuels dont on l’accuse?
Gérard Miller est présumé innocent mais permettez-moi de vous dire que ces témoignages ne m’ont pas étonnée, parce qu’il faut être dans le déni pour ne pas voir ce à quoi lui sert l’hypnose. Dans son livre, Hypnose mode d’emploi (Stock, 2002), le protocole utilisé est parfaitement expliqué sous couvert d’une description de faits historiques et d’anecdotes. Ce qu’on ne pouvait pas imaginer, c’est l’ampleur, supposée, de ce qui lui est reproché. La justice fera son travail. Je considère que Gérard Miller jette l’opprobre sur l’hypnothérapie en faisant de sa pratique un moyen de manipuler les êtres. Il y a là une fascination pour l’emprise. Il a d’ailleurs monté, à Avignon (2008) une pièce de théâtre, Manipulations : mode d’emploi dans laquelle il prétend dévoiler les manigances des «hypnotiseurs», de Mesmer à Sarkozy.
Pourquoi est-on sorti du déni?
Je dirais qu’il faut, sur ce point, remercier MeToo. L’histoire montre qu’il faut de grandes crises pour voir ce qu’on ne voulait pas voir auparavant. Je n’aime pas parler d’omerta parce que ce mot comporte une vision criminelle du pouvoir. Je ne veux pas qualifier les activités sociales et artistiques de mafia. Que le viol soit un crime, oui ; que tout le monde soit complice de ce que Gérard Miller est accusé d’avoir fait, non. Il faut raison garder et juger au cas par cas.
Il a tout de même été invité pendant trente ans dans différentes émissions de télévision…
Il y a à cet égard une responsabilité des producteurs qui disent n’avoir rien vu d’autre qu’une activité de «dragueur». Et il y a ceux qui prétendent avoir été «bernés», terme sur lequel on pourrait s’interroger. A l’écran, Miller dégageait des caractéristiques qui auraient dû inquiéter. Il maniait l’injure et accusait les autres de ce qu’aujourd’hui on lui reproche. Tel un Fouquier-Tinville coléreux, il tirait à vue au nom de la Révolution et de la psychanalyse, comme d’autres au nom de la religion. Il lâchait ses fléchettes comme dans un stand de tir : il faisait rire ou il effrayait à cause de la haine qui se dégageait de son discours. Dans l’un de ses livres, Antipathies (Grasset 2014), il donne la liste, en les nommant, de tous les gens qu’il déteste. Il met dans le même sac Alain Badiou et Alain Soral. Et va jusqu’à comparer Charles de Gaulle à Pétain et à Jean-Marie Le Pen. De tels excès de langage veulent toujours dire quelque chose sur la pulsion sexuelle. J’ajoute que quand on est psychanalyste, on doit se réclamer d’une des grandes constances du discours freudien énoncée dans Malaise dans la civilisation, en 1930 : l’humanité doit dominer ses pulsions, sinon elle est vouée au crime.
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how the CIA violated Human Rights & Democratic values
London Bridge murderer was poster boy for rehab scheme ('Learning Together' promoted by the Institute of Criminology of Cambridge University) he targeted
The London Bridge attacker was heralded as a success story of the rehabilitation initiative that he went on to attack, it emerged on Sunday night.
Learning Together, a Cambridge University programme, worked with Usman Khan in prison and after his release and used him as a case study to show how they helped prisoners.
Khan even wrote a poem and a thank-you note to organisers after they provided him with a computer he could use without breaching a licence that banned him from going online.
Just months later the 28-year-old used his connection to the rehabilitation initiative to get permission to travel to London and kill two of those people who were trying to help him.
...Prof Loraine R Gelsthorpe, the director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge, where both victims had studied, paid tribute to them in a statement on Sunday. She said Saskia’s “warm disposition and extraordinary intellectual creativity was combined with a strong belief that people who have committed criminal offences should have opportunities for rehabilitation.
“Jack’s passion for social and criminal justice was infectious. He was deeply creatively and courageously engaged with the world, advocating for a politics of love. He worked tirelessly in dark places to pull towards the light.”
...read full article in The Telegraph - and in The Guardian
Louise Porton, an evil mother who killed her two daughters because they "got in the way of her sex life" has been jailed for life.
Louise Porton denied killing three-year-old Lexi Draper and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan, who died 18 days apart last year.
But the 23-year-old, of Skiddaw, Rugby, was found guilty of their murder and on Friday she was jailed for a minimum of 32 years.
During her trial, jurors heard Porton did not seem distressed by the deaths.
Passing sentence at Birmingham Crown Court, Mrs Justice Yip described the murders as "evil" and "calculated".
"These were blameless young children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their mother to protect and nurture them," she said.
"Instead you took their young lives away."
... more in BBC - The Guardian - The Independent - The Telegraph
A six year old girl was murder because of the sycophantic gross misjudgment of the judiciary
Ellie Butler judge, Ms. Hogg, 'took unwarranted steps' to reunite her with violent parents
Mrs Justice Hogg criticised by case review for ‘extraordinary’ decision to return child 11 months before her father -with the complicity of her mother- beat the child to death
... more in The Guardian - The Independent - The Telegraph - BBC
Read also:
Ellie Butler murder: Grandfather tells how girl begged not to be returned to her parents as he calls for public inquiry into her death ... [+]
Pervert Michael Jackson 'stashed pictures of animal torture and nude children' inside locked closet at Neverland Resort
Investigators at the Santa Barbara sheriff's department reportedly made the macabre discovery during a raid on the star's home in 2003, when he was facing child sex abuse charges, according to a US news website.
The closet, which was said to have three deadlocks attached to it, was found at the rear of Jackson’s bedroom, Radar Online reported, citing what it claimed were court papers it had obtained from a source close to the investigation.
... more in The Telegraph - Radar online
Un trágico caso con clave pasional
Karina Román, la psicóloga de 35 años que se encontraba desaparecida desde
hace tres días, murió ahogada el último lunes en las aguas del Río de la
Plata, según informaron voceros policiales Fuentes del Legislativo aseguraron
que el cuerpo de la mujer fue identificado por un hermano y una amiga de
la víctima, de quien indicaron que atravesaba un cuadro depresivo por la
ruptura de una relación sentimental. Voceros policiales indicaron que el
lunes a las 23 hallaron un cuerpo flotando en el Río de la Plata, frente
al Aeroparque metropolitano, el mismo día de la desaparición de la psicóloga;
aunque fue identificado recién hoy por peritos forenses, luego de que sus
familiares hicieron ayer la solicitud de paradero. La profesional trabajaba
como asesora de la Comisión de Políticas de Promoción e Integración Social
de la Legislatura porteña y además asistía a pacientes trasplantados en
el Hospital Argerich.
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The sycophantic reductionism
Freud observed that Psychoanalysis may not survive in the Anglo-American
culture, too keen to reducing concepts into practical norms in spite they
lose thus their "soul" for the sake of practicality. For example the "analyst"
psychiatrist of Marilyn Monroe ordered her to tape record "free associations"
so he may listen them later, as if it were a lonely and perverse game...
when Monroe died, the police investigator had met with the actress' psychiatrist,
Dr. Ralph Greenson. During the interview Greenson played the Monroe tapes.
Now the investigator decided to make them public
... more in Los
Angeles Times
Watch and listen the interview with Arthur Miller about Marilyn Monroe
The chronic illness of NHS: a feudal and bureaucratic system
New NHS referral system costs £3millions for 63 bookings:
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor of The
Independent (opens in new window)
The intellectual and moral corruption of the actual NHS
The Spectator - Printable article Jan 2005 (link opens in new window)
...Like propaganda in a totalitarian state, the various procedures to which doctors are subjected in the NHS are not intended to inform, much less to persuade or to change anyone, but to humiliate them, to let them know who is boss and that Big Brother is watching them. ...
Private detective use soars as spouses spy on partners
The number of suspicious partners hiring private investigators to set up honey traps for their spouses surged last year as a string of celebrity divorce cases shone an uncomfortable spotlight on a business that usually remains shrouded in secrecy.
The number of lawyers with clients using private detectives to confirm infidelity was up almost a third on last year, according to research published today by Grant Thornton, with more and more people following in the footsteps of high-profile figures who have turned to "private eyes"for help in establishing whether to end their marriage.
Matthew Mellon, the American banking heir, was cleared of wrong-doing last year after he admitted hiring Active Investigation Services (AIS) to spy on his former wife Tamara Mellon, the founder of Jimmy Choo shoes, before their divorce in 2005. And Ingrid Tarrant, the ex-wife of Who Wants to be A Millionaire? presenter Chris was granted a divorce after private detectives confirmed he had had a 10-year affair with Fiona McKechnie, the deputy head of a primary school.
But solicitors said yesterday that hiring the services of a private investigator was no longer the preserve of the suspicious super-rich. More than two-thirds of leading matrimony lawyers reported they had at least one client last year who paid detectives to spy on a partner – up from 49 per cent of lawyers the previous year and only 19 per cent in 2005. Of those clients, 64 per cent were women.
...more in The Independent
Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo...
People will post just about anything on social networking sites. And the information can be used against them. David Randall and Victoria Richards report. In the judicial backwater of a New Jersey federal court, a case is being heard that nominally affects two families but should also make millions of Britons think twice about something they do every day: put highly personal information on Facebook, MySpace or Bebo.
An American insurance company, in defending its refusal to pay out a claim, is seeking to call in evidence personal online postings, including the contents of any MySpace or Facebook pages the litigants may have, to see if their eating disorders might have "emotional causes". And the case is far from a lone one. Suddenly, those saucy pictures and intimate confessions on social networking sites can be taken down and used in evidence against you in ways never dreamed of.
In the US, a sex assault victim seeking compensation faces the prospect of her MySpace and Facebook pages being produced in court. In Texas, a driver whose car was involved in a fatal accident found his MySpace postings ("I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunkaholic") part of the prosecution's case. From Los Angeles to Lowestoft, thousands of social network site users have lost their jobs – or failed to clinch new ones – because of their pages' contents. Police, colleges and schools are monitoring MySpace and Facebook pages for what they deem to be "inappropriate" content. Online security holes and users' naivety are combining to cause privacy breaches and identity thefts. And what all this, and more, adds up to is this: online social networking can seriously damage your life.
...more in The Independent
London executive claims to had battered new born daughter to death to 'drive out devil'
A
senior City executive and “totally devoted father” killed his two-year-old
daughter by smashing her head against the floor because he believed she had
been taken over by a “malign and satanic entity”, a court heard today.
Alberto Izaga, 36, the most senior executive in London for the insurance giant
Swiss Re, thought he was on a mission and that there was a struggle between
good and evil and the devil, the Old Bailey was told.
Mr Izaga, who had described his daughter Yanire as the “most precious treasure
on earth” was rambling for several hours in June last year, after waking up in
the early hours of the morning, about how executives were part of a sect and
were taking over the financial world and an American film called Bug, about a
man who had bugs beneath his skin.
With his terrified wife trying to ring for help, Mr Izaga grabbed his daughter
from the nursery he had prepared and shook her before swinging her against the
wooden floor. ...Jonathan Rees, for the prosecution, said that Mr Izaga was still
rambling after 6am and told his wife that he had not slept for three days. She
asked him to stop and go to bed, which he did but was unable to sleep and began
crying and hitting his pillow before getting up and shouting.
When his wife asked him not to wake their daughter he went into her nursery,
picked her up and began to shake her as his wife begged him to stop. He did and
they sat together on the couch, the baby lying on her father's chest, but he
began to shout about the film Bug again. His wife tried to leave the flat to
get help but he blocked her path.
He then assaulted his daughter. She did not die straight away, but suffered multiple
skull fractures and brain damage and was declared dead two days later.
...more
in The
Times - The Guardian
Man charged with Rachel Nickell murder 15 years ago
A man was charged today with the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in July 1992, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Robert Napper, 41, will appear at City of Westminster magistrates' court on December 4.
The move follows a review of the notorious murder of the former model and lifeguard while she walked with her young son on July 15 1992.
Scotland Yard said: "Robert Napper, 41, has today been charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common on July 15 1992.
"He will appear before City of Westminster magistrates' court on December 4 at 10.30am."
Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in a frenzied attack that led to one of the largest murder inquiries ever seen in the UK. Her two-year-old son, Alex, was found clinging to her, covered in his mother's blood.
Hilary Bradfield, of the Crown Prosecution Service's serious casework unit, said the charge against Napper followed a "painstaking" review of the murder inquiry, which "considered all aspects of the case in detail".
She said: "This week we have reached a decision that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and have authorised the police to charge [Robert Napper]."
A total of 32 men were questioned in connection with the murder. Police eventually targeted an unemployed man from Roehampton, south London, called Colin Stagg who was known to walk his dog on the common.
While there was no forensic evidence linking Stagg to the scene, attention soon focused exclusively on him and police attempted to obtain evidence against him through a complex sting operation involving an undercover policewoman, acting on the sicophantic advice of leader of the British Psychological Society well know for their anti-freudian militancy and pro-behaviourist militancy like that of the American Psychological Society who condon participation of their members in tortures practices by the Pentagon.
The case against Stagg was thrown out when it came to the Old Bailey in 1994
on the grounds that police had used a "honeytrap" plot to encourage him to confess.
Police subsequently re-opened their inquiry.
Last year John Reid, then home secretary, agreed that Stagg should receive compensation.
Legal experts say he could get £250,000-£500,000.
Scotland Yard launched a new inquiry into Nickell's murder after the collapse
of Stagg's trial.
...more in The
Guardian - and in Democracy Now
Leaked Guantanamo Manual Reveals Torture Was Official Army Policy in which Psychologists Play a role
Just over a week ago, a major operating manual for the US military's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was leaked and posted on the internet. Among other disclosures, it reveals that isolation and sensory deprivation of prisoners was official Army policy. We take a look at how this affects the debate within the American Psychological Association and the participation of its members in eupheumenical called "interrogations" which proper name is tortures.
The 238-page manual titled "Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta," is
dated March 27, 2003, and signed by Army Major General Geoffrey Miller, who was
then the commander of the prison.
The document shows that the military had an official policy of denying some prisoners
any access to independent monitors of the International Committee of the Red
Cross, or ICRC, something the military has repeatedly denied.
Another disclosure is the use of isolation and sensory deprivation techniques
as a means of "preparing" detainees. It says incoming prisoners are to be held
in near-isolation for the first two weeks to foster dependence on interrogators
and "enhance and exploit the disorientation and disorganization felt by a newly
arrived detainee in the interrogation process."
This disclosure has strong relevance to the debate within the American Psychological
Association, which continues to condone psychologists' work on interrogations
at Guantanamo and CIA black sites. Its counterparts, the American Medical Association
and the American Psychiatric Association, have both banned their members from
participating in interrogations.
...more in Democracy
Now - and in the web
WikiLeaks where you can download a copy of the USA Manual
for Tortures /
Also
click on the screens above to watch a documental on a British lawyer representing
victims of torture held in Guantanamo, and click on the screens below to watch a documental by Amy Goodman on participation of psychologists in torture with the Pentagon.
18 years old student used YouTube to advertise his school massacre in Finland
A teenaged gunman killed his headmistress and seven fellow pupils at a school
in southern Finland today, hours after posting a chilling video on the YouTube
website predicting the massacre.
After running rampage through the Jokela high school the gunman shot himself
in the head, but survived and was taken to a hospital in an “extremely critical
condition”, a police spokesman said. He was named in unconfirmed internet reports
as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, himself a pupil at the school.
The school shooting is thought to be unprecedented in Finland, where violent
incidents are rare despite a high rate of gun ownership. In his YouTube postings
and videos, the young man appeared to have more in common with the authors
of some of the United States' worst massacres - including this year's Virginia
Tech shootings.
The video - which
has been deleted - shows a still image of a school that appears
to be the Jokela school. The photograph fragments to reveal a red-tinted picture
of a man pointing a gun at the camera.
...more in The
Guardian - The
Times - The
Telegraph - The Independent
Hypocritical Oath: "Psychologists"(anti-Freudians) who Torture
"First, do no harm. This tenet of medicine applies equally to
psychologists, yet they are increasingly implicated in abusive interrogations,
dare we say torture, at U.S. military detention facilities like Guantanamo
[concentration camp]. While the American
Medical Association and the American
Psychiatric Association both have passed resolutions prohibiting members
from participating in interrogations, the American Psychological Association
refuses to, despite the outrage of many of its members.
Now, with the declassification of a report by the Pentagon’s inspector general
detailing psychologists’ role in military interrogations, the U.S. Senate Committee
on Armed Services announced it will investigate.
Dr. Leonard Rubenstein, executive director of Physicians
for Human Rights, says
such an “investigation into the development of torture techniques by the United
States” would be “very significant. ... It should get into ... the use of psychologists
in the development of the techniques..."
...read
the full article by Amy
Goodman clicking here
And watch her informative shows on this significant matter in Democracy
Now
Please also visit the web of Physicians
for Human Rights and
support the campaign against USA torture.
Spanish tycoon forced into mental health treatment after he assasinated his 2 years old daughter banging her head:
A
millionaire insurance executive was sectioned under the Mental Health Act
yesterday after his two-year-old daughter was found with severe head injuries
at the family's apartment in central London. Alberto Izaga, 36, was arrested
on Sunday morning after neighbours heard screams coming from the luxury
£1m Thames-side apartment and called police. Mr Izaga's daughter, who is
believed to be called Yanire, is in a critical condition in St Thomas' Hospital,
central London. Mr Izaga, who is head of Life and Health Products at the
insurance giant Swiss Re, has been examined by psychologists and was detained.
...more in The
Guardian - Daily
Express - The
Telegraph - The
Independent - The
Times
Socratic Dialogue Gives Way to PowerPoint ...and much mediocrity:
For at least
a century at many teaching and community hospitals, properly dressed doctors
in ties and white coats have assembled each week, usually in an auditorium,
for a master class in the art and science of medicine from the best clinicians.
Before us was often a patient who sat in a chair or rested on a gurney and
two doctors, one in training and the other a professor or senior doctor
at the hospital. In a Socratic dialogue, they often led the audience in
a step-by-step deciphering of the ailment. But in recent years, grand rounds
have become didactic lectures focusing on technical aspects of the newest
biomedical research. Patients have disappeared.
...more in The
New York Times.
