Author: Judith Deutsch
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The Intertwined Food and Climate Emergency: Heeding Science
This is an astonishing world. Blame for current disasters cannot be offloaded to ‘human nature’. All who take care of children know that children can learn to live within limits … Keep reading »
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Trump and the Holding Environment
There are certainly a number of highly political and socioeconomic insights about the Trump catastrophe, and here I offer some psychoanalytic ideas about [US President-elect] Donald Trump and his hold … Keep reading »
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Water, Climate, Violence
“For Fanon, then, the right to indifference, or to ignorance, does not exist.” The doctor’s task “was to rise up in revolt, become indignant, show alarm… not to dissimulate the … Keep reading »
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The Gaza Crisis: A Modest Proposal for Immediate Relief
This modest proposal is not a satire after Jonathan Swift’s 18th century satirical essay “A Modest Proposal” in which he suggested that the British solve the Irish overpopulation problem by … Keep reading »
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Palestine Genocide: Regressive Responses from Major Mental Health Organizations
Howl, howl, howl! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou ’lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. — … Keep reading »
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Psychological Complexities of Violence and Revenge
Preventing recurrent, predictable catastrophes must come with eliminating its causes, including complex, unequivalent psychological motives for revenge and violence. Unlike the Holocaust defense of “not knowing,” people in Israel and … Keep reading »
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Climate Change, Record Temperatures, and Human Fatalities
How many people are dying due to climate change? How does climate change cause death, and what are some of the omissions, deceptions, and confusions about fossil fuels, climate change, … Keep reading »
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Scapegoating Dr. Hassan Diab in France and Canada: The Varieties of Moral Experience
The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by an absence of morality as in scapegoating, and by an absolutist moral stance that law is engraved in stone and … Keep reading »
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A World Gone Haywire: Brutality Toward Children
In recent radio interviews, Wole Soyinka, the 88-year old Nobel literature prize recipient from Nigeria, spoke of a “world gone haywire,” about the human world completely transformed in the way … Keep reading »
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The Erasure of Palestine and the JNF
Ariel Gold’s article on the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Counterpunch is an important and critical introduction to this NGO but she mistakenly dates the compilation of the Zionist Village … Keep reading »
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COP26: Dangerous Omissions, Amplifying Feedbacks, Human Fatalities
November 2021 saw the 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP26). This year the meeting was held in Glasgow. The COP is the global governing body made up … Keep reading »
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Deconstructing Boats on the Eve of Glasgow COP26
The images that first come to mind about “boat people” are of families in rickety little vessels fleeing from Vietnam in the last days of that war, and now the … Keep reading »