The events most in my mind at the moment are the unfolding disasters in Burma and China. It is hard to imagine a single incident in Burma which has already led to the death of over twenty three thousand people (the official figure) let alone the...
ANNUAL MEETING FEATURED PANEL Trauma and Reparative Justice Delineating the meaning of reparative justice in relation to other forms of justice, and beyond reparation per se, this multidisciplinary panel will convey, from the victims’ and a lawyer’s...
Vladimir Nabokov was a refugee, or as he seemed to prefer, exile, of both the Russian Revolution (his father was a prominent aristocrat and liberal) and western Europe of the 1930’s. So, he knows what he is talking about when, in his novel Pnin, he tells the...
An important step forward in addressing diversity within ISTSS was taken during the most recent ISTSS Board of Directors meeting in November, 2007, when the Board voted to formally create the ISTSS Diversity Committee. The creation of the Diversity Committee, a...
As Immediate Past-President of ISTSS, this will be my final Presidential column in StressPoints. After this column, Dr. Angela Nickerson, the Current President of ISTSS, will take over. With Angela Nickerson, I am confident that our society will be in more than...
