Here We Go Again: Yet Another “Nuclear Renaissance”

Review by Cliff Conner of Science For The People

"Nuclear Now is an entertaining and powerful documentary with a seductive argument in support of atomic power as an alternative to fossil fuels. Its director, Oliver Stone, enjoys a reputation as a talented filmmaker and political polemicist. Atomic Bamboozle, by contrast, argues that the dangers inherent in atomic energy production make it unacceptable as a solution to the climate catastrophe. It is an out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire option."

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The Paradox of PTSD: Call for Social Change or Individual Pathology?

Review by Wendy Winograd of the DSW, LCSW, BCD-P

"Haaken is both a psychoanalyst and a documentary filmmaker, and, in both roles, her penchant for storytelling is key [...] We, as readers and clinicians, are left asking ourselves how we should tailor our interventions so that we at once address and ameliorate individual suffering and take a role in facilitating large-scale social change."

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Feminism & Psychology

Review by Kareen Malone of the Après Coup Psychoanalytic Association

"Haaken attends to how histories of gender, colonization and race display the myriad ways that suffering, especially of the variety that PTSD touches upon, is diminished within psychiatry as a plausible psychosocial issue affecting the experiences of individuals and groups whilst inflecting the historical moment, at any given time."

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Psychiatric Times

Trauma and the Politics of Diagnosis: Janice Haaken, PhD

Awais Aftab, MD, interviews Jan for the series "Conversations in Clinical Psychology," which explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo.

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Against the Current

Exploring PTSD Politics

Norm Diamond on Jan's book, Psychiatry, Politics and PTSD: Breaking Down.

"Her new book explores the introduction of PTSD the concept, the political movement that gave rise to it, its potential as political critique and its subsequent taming."

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Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology

Book Review by Emaline Friedman

"Another goal of the book is to interrogate psychiatry, holding up a mirror to it by diagnosing PTSD itself as a symptom of crisis in psychiatry."

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Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society

Book Review by Marshall Alcorn

"'Trauma’ may perhaps be the most socially impactful concept of the 20th century, casting its influence increasingly into the 21st century. Refreshingly, Haaken does not situate her analysis with reference to the usual embittered debates that now surround the diagnostic concept and category of trauma."

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