Random Thoughts on Mass Shootings: Can Psychology Help Explain Them?
This Psychologist feels that the current wave of mass shootings are indicative of a dying society and that psychology and the whole "mental health industry" not only have contributed little to understanding our current social dilemmas but have contributed much to them. I will try and think outloud on the following: 1) Our theories fail to separate explanations from judgments; 2) examine the necessity for human beings\xa0to be both\xa0individuals as well as\xa0members\xa0of groups and society; \xa03) fails to adequately intergrate biology and psychology; 4) fails to integrate the roles played by politics and economics;\xa05) fails to develop a language of simultaneity that encompasses both individuals,\xa0the social groups that define us as individuals. Finally, I will muse on the role of science and technology that are changing every aspect of being human and ask the question "Will Alexa ever really love us?"\n\n\n\tstore.bookbaby.com/book/psychotherapy-and-the-stories-we-live-by