Eva Witkowska PhD Therapy

07/08/2024

In The Guardian, 'The big idea: why your brain needs other people' by Huv Green:
"This chimes with the views of some disability activists – the social model of disability suggests that people are disabled by barriers in society rather than by their physical or mental difference.
This is especially true of thinking. Consider those times when the presence of others has reminded you of an appointment, a name, or simply encouraged you to focus your attention differently. Our relationships provide a context in which to think, and a reason to think. We deliberate with one another to arrive at important decisions, talk through ideas to test them out. These processes are embedded in our political institutions. Democracies presume that significant moral and political decisions are best made through interpersonal processes of debate, rather than being left to individuals."

06/20/2024

"There are three popular explanations for the clear under-representation of women in management, namely: (1) they are not capable; (2) they are not interested; (3) they are both interested and capable but unable to break the glass-ceiling: an invisible career barrier, based on prejudiced stereotypes, that prevents women from accessing the ranks of power. Conservatives and chauvinists tend to endorse the first; liberals and feminists prefer the third; and those somewhere in the middle are usually drawn to the second. But what if they all missed the big picture?

In my view, the main reason for the uneven management s*x ratio is our inability to discern between confidence and competence. That is, because we (people in general) commonly misinterpret displays of confidence as a sign of competence, we are fooled into believing that men are better leaders than women. In other words, when it comes to leadership, the only advantage that men have over women (e.g., from Argentina to Norway and the USA to Japan) is the fact that manifestations of hubris — often masked as charisma or charm — are commonly mistaken for leadership potential, and that these occur much more frequently in men than in women."
From Harvard Business Review

06/19/2024

"A lack of women at decision-making tables around the world is hindering progress when it comes to tackling conflicts or improving health and standard of living, the highest ranking woman in the UN has said.

“We’re half the population. And what we bring to the table is incredibly important and it’s missing,” said Amina Mohammed, the United Nations deputy secretary general. “I think it’s why mostly our human development indices are so bad, why we have so many conflicts and we’re unable to come out of the conflicts.”

06/14/2024

Early-life exposure to air and noise pollution is associated with a higher risk for psychosis, depression, and anxiety in adolescence and early adulthood, results from a longitudinal birth cohort study showed.

While air pollution was associated primarily with psychotic experiences and depression, noise pollution was more likely to be associated with anxiety in adolescence and early adulthood.

"Early-life exposure could be detrimental to mental health given the extensive brain development and epigenetic processes that occur in utero and during infancy," the researchers, led by Joanne Newbury, PhD, of Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, in Bristol, England, wrote, adding that "the results of this cohort study provide novel evidence that early-life exposure to particulate matter is prospectively associated with the development of psychotic experiences and depression in youth."

The findings were published online on May 28 in JAMA Network Open.

06/03/2024

Western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose, to work, to make money. Some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. We don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.
- Melanie Lau -

05/27/2024

Until 1974 in the USA women were unable to open a bank account or acquire a line of credit without a man co-signing.
The financial services industry was led by (usually white) men. So eight women came together to turn everything around by opening their own Women's Bank.
Carol Green, Judi Wagner, LaRae Orullian, Gail Schoettler, Wendy Davis, Joy Burns, Beverly Martinez, and Edna Mosely founded the bank's board by each pitching in $1,000.
On 14 July 1978 The Women's Bank opened for business. People stood in line down the street in downtown Denver to deposit their money.The first day's deposits exceeded $1 million.

05/17/2024

Is this good news or another future 'Va**um' disaster?

A single oral administration of an L*D-based medicine provided rapid and durable improvement in moderate to severe generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in a phase 2B study.

05/15/2024

Ontario hospitals with more than 35 per cent female surgeons and anesthesiologists had better patient outcomes, including fewer deaths, in the following three months after their surgery, according to a new study in Wednesday's British Journal of Surgery.

04/16/2024

At least 10% of women suffer from endometriosis & endure severe pain every month.

Popular wisdom is, get used to periods being painful & keep quiet. Most of us aren’t diagnosed for about a decade.

Sharing to fight the silence. Get tested! Threatment is available!

04/07/2024

https://kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/women-end-doing-academic-housework

Women end up doing the academic housework While women actively participate in the practical work at their organisation, men dodge it. The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their c...

02/29/2024

Frustration is the theme!

A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015

02/22/2024

Warning.

CCDH analyzed Meta’s own research into child safety risks, and it paints a bleak picture of harms on Instagram. Here’s what you need to know.