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America Has Confused Priorities, Says Keynote Speaker Jesse Jackson
In his keynote address to the APA Convention, Jackson told the audience, "The wave of deinstitutionalization of the 60s and 70s left the mentally ill with no place to go. The jail-industrial complex gobbled up these lost and lonely people with no concern for their health."
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"As an army of hope," said Jesse Jackson, " you must fight tooth and nail against those who would imprison the mentally ill."
All photos by Evan Richman and Brian Snyder.
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Council Approves Testing Standards
By year's end, psychologists and other professionals who design and use educational and psychological tests--from diagnostics for mental illness to aptitude tests for schools--will have a new set of standards guiding their work.
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| Surgeon General Seeks More Balance in Health Care
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U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher |
Last year, 5.8 million prescriptions were written for Viagra--the most ever for a new drug, said U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, PhD, MD. But what most people don't realize, he said, is that "physical activity probably has, in the long run, as great if not a greater benefit over sexual potency as Viagra."
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