Archive for June, 2007

Jun
27
Filed Under (Activism, China) by admin on 27-06-2007

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For those unfamiliar with Chen’s plight, please check out these links to past Elfis Network coverage of his valient efforts to end inhumane enforcement of China’s old one-child policies.

 - Miles

Blind Chinese Rights Activist Defiant After Prison Beating

By Maureen Fan Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, June 23, 2007; Page A14

BEIJING, June 22 — A blind legal activist imprisoned after angering local officials in Shandong province went on a three-day hunger strike this week to protest being beaten while in custody, lawyers and supporters said Friday.

Chen Guangcheng, 35, who was sentenced last August to more than four years in prison for damaging property and disrupting traffic, has said he was wrongfully convicted. Last Saturday, Chen objected when other prisoners tried to shave his head in accordance with prison rules. When Chen refused, six or seven other inmates pushed him to the floor and beat and kicked him, Chen’s wife told his lawyer Li Jinsong after visiting her husband Tuesday.

“She saw that his mood was unhappy, that his knees and ribs were red, injured and swollen,” Li said in a telephone interview Friday. “She was afraid one of the ribs might be broken. He began rejecting food and water after the beating.”

Chen’s case attracted international attention after he documented complaints that Linyi city officials had tried to enforce birth control regulations by illegally forcing farmers to undergo late-term abortions and sterilizations. Chen, blinded by a childhood illness, taught himself the law and helped farmers prepare a class-action lawsuit.

He and other rights activists have suffered recently as Chinese leaders have cracked down on dissent in advance of the 2008 Olympic Games and an upcoming Communist Party congress. China’s top security chief has branded Chinese rights activists a threat to stability and Communist Party rule and said they are influenced by overseas interests.

Although Chen received support for his campaign from national family planning officials — who acknowledged that their policies ought to be legally enforced — he was detained in Beijing by embarrassed local officials. He was returned to Shandong province, placed under house arrest and brought up on what his attorneys described as trumped-up charges.

The case has been marked by irregularities, including the beating and detention of Chen’s defense attorneys, who are now seeking to appeal the conviction.

Hu Jia, a rights activist who is under house arrest but able to speak with the media, said Chen’s wife, Yuan Weijing, called him in tears on Tuesday. She told him her husband had not had anything to eat or drink for the 76 hours between the beating and her visit with him. Chen could stand up only very slowly, she said.

Yuan went to the prison again Thursday to see her husband and was told by officials that he had undergone a medical examination and was found to be uninjured. He had also resumed eating and drinking after the checkup, lawyer Li said.

“I personally think that it was not the revenge of prison officials. It’s more likely that it’s just the misbehavior of the other prison inmates,” Li said.

Amnesty International said in a statement Friday that the group believes Chen’s life is in danger “and that he is at risk of further torture and ill-treatment.”

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Jun
18
Filed Under (Activism, Photos, RFID, Toll Roads, Texas, Austin) by admin on 18-06-2007

 

www.Dont-TagTexas.com

Recently I finally posted a Gallery of my protest pics from the Don’t Tag Texas / Anti Toll Road Rally that happened Independence Day of this year. Links to the Gallery below …

 

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“In a startlingly prophetic vision of his from 2000, the twin towers burn.”

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Hat tip to Jeff Wells’ Rigorous Intuition as always.

Little School of Horrors -

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

He stopped doing it years ago, because if he hadn’t he’d have killed himself or someone else by now, but New York artist Joe Coleman used to blow himself up.As “Professor Mamboozo” - either his geek avatar or, as he described it, a raging spirit that would take possession of his body - Coleman would arrive uninvited at the house parties of strangers, provoke a confrontation and ignite the mass of firecrackers he’d strapped to his body. In the confusion, smoke and fear he would slip away before police arrived. When Mamboozo debuted on New York’s avant garde art scene in a 1981 performance at the Kitchen he also rolled in bloody meat, bit the heads off live rats and pressed a shotgun against the forehead of the woman who had booked him and asked, “How’d you like the show?” The traumatized crowed was an audience no more, Coleman having yanked them out of their art house detachment through horrification ritual and the sudden shock of their own possible, imminent death. (”I told them as hard as I could without killing them,” Coleman told Re/Search in Pranks.)

I thought about Coleman the other day when I read of the teachers of an elementary school in Tennessee who convinced their sixth graders a gunman was attacking, and repeatedly told the hysterical children it wasn’t a drill.

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The New York Times, reviewing a retrospective of Joe Coleman’s paintings last September, wrote that, “in a startlingly prophetic vision of his from 2000 the twin towers burn.”  

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Jun
09
Filed Under (Silverstein, WTC7, WTC, ForeKnowledge) by admin on 09-06-2007

Claim: Silverstein Warned Not To Come To Work On 9/11
9/11 truth activist says security guards spilled beans, while one gets fired for calling in a false bomb threat to frame demonstrators

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Apparently silverstien had a “doctors appointment” on the morning of 9/11 which meant he was absent from his office on 9/11, also both his son and daughter were “late for work” that morning, so they to were also absent from there offices.

(8:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Larry Silverstein Doesn’t go to WTC Due to Doctor’s Appointment
WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein is supposed to be working today in the temporary offices of his company, Silverstein Properties, on the 88th floor of the North Tower. However, at his Park Avenue apartment, Silverstein’s wife reportedly “laid down the law: The developer could not cancel an appointment with his dermatologist, even to meet with tenants at his most important property.” [New York Observer, 3/17/2003; New York Magazine, 4/18/2005] He is therefore not at the WTC when it is hit, and first hears of the attacks when an associate calls him from the lobby of one of the WTC buildings. [Real Deal, 1/2004] Two of Silverstein’s children—his son, Roger, and daughter, Lisa—work for his company and have been regularly attending meetings with WTC tenants at Windows on the World (the restaurant at the top of the North Tower). Yet this morning they are running late. According to the New York Observer, “If the attack had happened just a little later, Mr. Silverstein’s children would likely have been trapped at Windows.” [New York Observer, 3/17/2003] Fifty-four of Silverstein Properties’ 160 staff are in the North Tower when it is hit, and four of them die. [Globe and Mail, 9/7/2002] Silverstein signed the lease on the WTC less than two months previously, and later will attempt to get $7 billion in insurance for the destruction of the towers (see July 24, 2001).

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Jun
09
Filed Under (Dreams, Symbolism, Study, Notes, Synchronicity) by admin on 09-06-2007

Six Phases in the Development of Jung’s Theory of Types

open on September 11th in Zurich, the hometown of psychologist Carl Jung. 1) As time passes, and people become less familiar with Jung’s theory than
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Another Meaning To September 11th

To September 11th. by Butler Shaffer …. as Carl Jung has suggested, that “the salvation of the world consists in the salvation of the individual soul.”
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Wizards of Ozymandias

II – Another Meaning To September 11th …. as Carl Jung has suggested, that “the salvation of the world consists in the salvation of the individual soul.
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Barneson

Carl Jung develops this idea in his essay, “On the Relation of Analytical by the acts of heroism that survived and defined the pathos of September 11th.
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informationliberation - The news you’re not supposed to know…

Out of the ashes of the September 11th tragedy, a dark empire of war and tyranny has ….. Documentary on the famous Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung,
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Law of Truly Large Numbers

Carl Jung, like many people who have experienced an uncanny pairing of events, *After September 11th there are 111 days left to the end of the year.
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law of truly large numbers (coincidence)

“That a particular specified event or coincidence will occur is very unlikely. That some astonishing unspecified events will occur is certain. That is why remarkable coincidences are noted in hindsight, not predicted with foresight.”–David G. Myers

The law of truly large numbers says that with a large enough sample many odd coincidences are likely to happen.

AcaDemon, Term papers, 070529

This paper argues that the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City Carl Jung and 9/11, 2006. An explanation of 9/11 in the eyes of Carl Jung.
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Carl Jung and 9/11, 2006.An explanation of 9/11 in the eyes of Carl Jung.
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In this article the author looks at the events of 9/11 and its aftermath through the eyes of Carl Jung. He examines how Jung would have reacted to the events of 9/11. He points out that Jung believed very strongly in coincidence. But, would he have thought that 9/11 was a coincidence, something hidden in the collective unconsciousness. Maybe the unconscious beliefs of government officials, the CIA and FBI who knew that there was something going to happen, but didn’t know when or where or even how. The paper goes on to describe how Jung would have categorized the different reactions of the American people after 9/11 in his terms of introvert and extrovert personalities. The author examines the different archetypes that Jung proposed in terms of 9/11. The paper concludes with the statement that even Jung would have not have been able to explain the “why?” of the terrorist attacks and what they hoped to accomplish.
From the Paper
“Jung dreamt a great deal about the dead, the land of the dead, and the rising of the dead. These represented the unconscious itself — not the “little” personal unconscious that Freud made such a big deal out of, but a new collective unconscious of humanity itself. It would be interesting to assume that the thousands who died at the World Trade Center, the Pennsylvania field and at the Pentagon were somehow part of a Jungian dream. But, while we might think of Freud and Jung as seeing psychosis in dreams, Jung was more realistic. “Jung felt that, if you want to understand the jungle, you can’t be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You’ve got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem” (Boeree 1).”

Professor Chaos: September 2006 Archives

I had a friend die on September 11th. Actually, I had a friend killed on September 11th. It’s 2:00 am and I’m up buying Carl Jung books from Amazon.com.
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ASD Conference Program

This paper elaborates upon the statement by Carl Jung that vivid dreams Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been a renewed focus on
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Significant Dreams CE

1:30PM–3:35 pm Symposium Cohen

Researching Big Dreams, Their Correlates, and Their Effects

Significant Dreams and Transpersonal Awareness

Matthew S. Allen, Roger M. Knudson

This paper reviews the literature on significant dreams and transpersonal states of awareness. An attempt is made to examine the role of significant dreams in the development of transpersonal awareness. Reference will be made to dreams provided by research participants.

Neuropsychological Correlates of Big Dreams

Kelly Bulkeley

This presentation will present preliminary findings from a research project on highly memorable dreams, and will discuss the possible neuropsychological correlates of these unusual types of dreams. The chief argument will be that “big dreams” (Jung’s phrase) represent distinctive modes of neural activation that differ in significant ways from ordinary dreaming.

 

1:45 pm–3:45 pm Workshop Eaton 201

Understanding, Exploring, and Transforming Posttraumatic Nightmares

Alan B. Siegel

This workshop will demonstrate the meanings and therapeutic potential of exploring posttraumatic dreams and nightmares following disasters such as those on September 11th, as well as after other accidents, violence, abuse, or losses. Recurring themes, issues surfacing from the past, anniversary reactions and the stages of recovery from trauma will be explored using participants’ dreams and dreams from patients of participating practitioners. Handouts on posttraumatic dreams and recovery will be provided.

1:45 pm–3:35 pm Workshop Eaton 202

Dream Activism: Making a Difference in Our World

Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Rita Dwyer

Our dreams affect all of humanity. Learn how to use your dreams for community and global peace and prosperity. Participants will develop and initiate a dream activism platform for the dreaming community to use individually and in groups.

Dream Interpretation CE

7:00 pm–9:00 pm Panel Eaton 201

Comparative Analysis of a Dream Series of a Trauma Survivor

Alan B. Siegel, Deirdre Barrett, G. William Domhoff, Kelly Bulkeley

This symposium will provide a panel discussion with audience participation of three viewpoints on a dream series related to the September 11th events. Special theoretical and clinical issues and advantages to working with a dream series after a discrete trauma event will be discussed and debated from contrasting viewpoints including a Jungian, Psychoanalytic or Self Psychological, and Cognitive point of view. The moderator will encourage active discussion from participants who will be able to receive the dream series in advance.

 

 

From The Wilderness Publications: How to Use This Website

Carl Jung wrote: “The foundation of all mental illness is the The World Since September 11th This is where you will find almost ALL stories published
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The Century of the Self posted 03/21/2006, 9:29 PM (InformationLiberation)
The Untold History Of Controlling The Masses Through The Manipulation Of Unconscious Desires
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized.” - Edward Bernays

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

Adam Curtis’ acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.

To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund’s devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund’s great grandson, Matthew Freud.

Sigmund Freud’s work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society’s belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man’s ultimate goal.
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Internet connectedness before and after September 11th

Kim, Yong-Chan., Jung, Joo-Young., Ball-Rokeach, Sandra. and Cohen, Elisia. activities in response to September 11th, than low- and non-connectors did.
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Kim, Yong-Chan., Jung, Joo-Young., Ball-Rokeach, Sandra. and Cohen, Elisia. Internet connectedness before and after September 11th if(this.location.search.substring(1).indexOf(’type=info’)>-1){ document.write(’Internet connectedness before and after September 11th
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Kim, Y. , Jung, J. , Ball-Rokeach, S. J. and Cohen, E. (2003, May) Internet connectedness before and after September 11th if(this.location.search.substring(1).indexOf(’type=info’)>-1){ document.write(’Internet connectedness before and after September 11th
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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Based on survey data gathered before and after September 11, this study examines the relationship between “Internet connectedness” and communicative actions after crisis. The study found that (1) people heighten their dependency relations with mass media forms no matter whether they had and Internet connection or not after the September 11th, (2) “Internet high connectors” intensified their Internet connection even more strongly and expanded their scope of communication media after 9/11; (3) “Internet low connectors” decreased the intensity of their Internet connection and narrowed their scope of communication media after 9/11; and (4) Internet high connectors participated in a broader range of civic activities in response to September 11th, than low- and non-connectors did.

Jung & Analytical Psychology books - Jung Arena

Jung & Analytical Psychology titles from Psychology Press and Routledge Mental Health (and Guilford Press in Published September 11th 1986 by Routledge.

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GLOCOM Platform - Books & Journals - Journal Abstracts

Civic Actions after September 11th: Exploring the Role of Multi-Level Storytelling Elisia L. Cohen, Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Joo-Young Jung, and Yong-Chan

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Journal Abstracts #53: April 2, 2002

Prometheus


Journal Name: Prometheus
Special Issue: Communications on September 11th
To be published in August 2002

The journal Prometheus is publishing an edited collection of papers by media and communication scholars around the world treating various aspects of communications on September 11th. Mass media, telecommunication, and the Internet are all covered. In addition to relating practice to theory, many of the papers present lessons and policy advice from communications on September 11th.

A Dangerous opportunity, the spiritual challenges of the events of

September 11th, however, has changed this. The events of that date have Jung invented the term shadow to refer to the “other side” of our nature,
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A DANGEROUS OPPORTUNITY
The Spiritual Challenges of the Events of September 11th 2001

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Published in the December 2001 issue of
‘The Scientific and Medical Network Review’.

“A new order on earth will not begin, I believe, until we all learn to see the pollution in our hearts. And that will not happen until many of us, a critical mass, experience with remorse, a real change of consciousness.”
Asking for the Earth by James George

When the Terrorist planes flew into the Twin Towers on the fateful morning of September 11th, something became activated in the planetary psyche that changed the world forever. Before that shock, a complacency existed. Before that shock, many of us had never really wanted to open our eyes to see and face the imbalances and violence in our world, and if we did we would simply say to ourselves: “Well, that is the way things are and always have been. C’est la vie!”

But no longer. As those towers crumbled, something also shattered in our own psyches, which in many people gave rise to the realisation that violence and terrorism was no longer something that happened over there, to them; it was also a reality in our own midst and belonged to all of us. It was Gurdjieff who warned us never to underestimate the transformational possibilities of shock. In his eyes, man being the “spiritually asleep” creature that he was, if he wished to wake up he generally needed to experience a shock greater than the sum of his own inertia. And that is exactly what has happened. The word crisis in Chinese is translated “dangerous opportunity.” And this is what we now face.

For a long time, there has existed what we might call an “Alternative Movement” on the planet. Whether we refer to those comprising it as Alternativists, social or spiritual activists, or Aquarian Conspirators, radical philosophers, ecological warriors, peacemakers, New-Agers or whatever, does not matter. What is significant is that many people have come up with ingenious solutions to our world problems, and are in touch with important antidotes to help our planet work more effectively and be a healthier place in which to live.

But always the problem has been the “powers that be”, or the pedagogical forces - those who “run things”. They have always resisted, closed their eyes, said, “no” to innovation.

September 11th, however, has changed this. The events of that date have catalysed a whole new climate of potential openness to change, and while this may not yet be visible (as I write, bombs are still dropping in Afghanistan) we must not forget to look beneath the surface. I have travelled quite extensively since September 11th and wherever I have been, I have encountered people asking many new questions – talking about the need to have a new kind of world come into being, a kinder, gentler more humane world, and who are prepared now, for the first time, to do something to have this come about.

In the words of Christopher Fry in his play A Sleep of Prisoners

“Dark and cold we may be,but this is no winter now.
The frozen misery of centuries breaks, cracks begins to move.
The thunder is the thunder of the floes, the thaw, the flood, the upstart spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to face us everywhere
Never to leave us till we take the longest stride of soul man ever took.”

Why these September 11th events are so different from all other previous crises that have also exposed anomalies in the system, is that this crisis went right to the very jugular of western society; it has highlighted certain wrongs so forcefully that we can no longer avoid seeing them.

Facing the Shadow

Another Meaning To September 11th

To September 11th. by Butler Shaffer …. as Carl Jung has suggested, that “the salvation of the world consists in the salvation of the individual soul.”

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Another Meaning
To September 11th

by Butler Shaffer

The shocking attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have struck far deeper into our conscious and unconscious minds than any of us has begun to imagine. The anger that has now settled into the minds of most of us is certainly understandable, deriving as it does from a fear of our vulnerability and a failure of expectations that our political systems would protect us from such harm. This anger, driven by a desire for revenge, does not subside, for the perpetrators of this crime are dead, and it is unclear to most of us who else might be implicated. So intense is this anger that those among us who fail to voice it with sufficient heat, or resist the cries of “war,” themselves become subject to attack.

I have devoted the majority of my adult years to addressing the deadly, destructive, and dehumanized nature of the world in which we live. We live in conflict because our thinking is in conflict. We have organized ourselves into rigidly-defined categories based upon race, ethnicity, nationality, ideology, religion, economic interests, geography, and countless other identities, and vigorously defend the boundaries of such categories from those outside. Politics mobilizes such identities, promising each of these groups the coercive backing of the state to advance their interests.

Political systems operate upon a vertical, top-down model of decision-making, as was best represented in the pyramidal structuring of Plato’s Republic. Those in authority are presumed to have a superior wisdom and access to information to justify their making decisions for all of society. Most of us have been conditioned to buy into this model, as reflected in the oft-quoted phrase “the more complex society, the greater the need for government.”

In recent years, however, there has been a growing awareness of the fallacy of such a premise, and an understanding that only decentralized, spontaneous systems and practices – such as the marketplace – are capable of dealing with the uncertainties of a complex world. We have been witnessing the collapse of the vertical, and the emergence of a more horizontal, model of social organizations. Institutionalized health care is being challenged by alternative, individually-directed health practices. The awareness that police are unable to protect us from crime has generated an interest in martial arts, private weapons, and electronic protection of homes. The failure of government schools has led increasing numbers of parents into private schools and homeschooling. Most of us no longer depend on the vertically structured institutional media (”we will tell you what we want you to know”) for information, but communicate with one another through the horizontally driven Internet. Even political systems have become subject to such decentralizing trends: secession movements and the collapse of the Soviet Union being the more evident examples.

The terrifying events of September 11th provided perhaps the most chilling evidence of the failure of the political model.

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Estimating the Effects of September 11th and Other Forms of Violence

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Smith, Reich, & Jung, 1988; La Greca, Silverman, &. Wasserstein, 1998; Vogel & Vernberg, 1993). Some. studies of September 11th, already in the field, were
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Abstract

Applied Developmental Science

2004, Vol. 8, No. 3, Pages 111-129

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Estimating the Effects of September 11th and Other Forms of Violence on the Mental Health and Social Development of New York City’s Youth: A Matter of Context

J. Lawrence Aber

New York University

Elizabeth T. Gershoff

Columbia University

Angelica Ware

Columbia University

Jennifer A. Kotler

Columbia University

 

This longitudinal study examines the effects of exposure to the terrorist attack of September 11th as well as exposure to other forms of community violence on change in the mental health and social attitudes of youths in New York City. Three quarters of the youths reported some form of direct exposure to the events of September 11th, and 80% reported a lot of exposure to at least 1 form of media coverage of September 11th; these rates were comparable with the citywide survey of public school students in New York City conducted by the New York City Department of Education. Results of a structural equation model that included controls for previous levels of mental health and social attitudes, as well as a range of demographic factors, indicated that direct exposure and family exposure to the event did not predict change in any mental health outcomes, but did predict change in levels of social mistrust; media exposure did predict posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. In contrast, victimization by other forms of violence was strongly associated with change in or current levels of all of the examined mental health symptoms, whereas witnessing other forms of violence was associated with change in or levels of 3 of 4 mental health symptoms and with increased hostile attribution bias and levels of social mistrust. Implications of the results for applied developmental and public mental health strategies in response to traumatic events are discussed.

Cited by

J. Lawrence Aber, Elizabeth T. Gershoff. (2004) Editors’ Conclusion: Child, Youth, and Parent Responses to the Terrorism of September 11, 2001: Implications for Applied Developmental Science and Practice. Applied Developmental Science 8:4, 221-225
Online publication date: 1-Oct-2004.
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publications

September 11th: Piercing Our Unconscious.” The C.G. Jung Page (September 2001). “On the Borderland:” in: The Institute of Noetic Sciences Review,
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List of Publications
by Jerome S. Bernstein

  • Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of
    Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing
    Trauma, (Routledge, 2005).

  • “Collective Shadow Integration of the Jungian
    Community: Atonement” in: Jung and the
    Shadow of Anti-Semitism, Aryeh Maidenbaum,
    ed. (Nicholas-Hays, 2003)
  • “Report to the Delegates of the XIIth Congress
    of the International Association for Analytical
    Psychology,” in: “Collective Shadow Integration
    of the Jungian Community: Atonement” in: Jung
    and the Shadow of Anti-Semitism, Aryeh
    Maidenbaum, ed. (Nicholas-Hays, 2003)
  • “September 11th: Piercing Our Unconscious.
    C.G. Jung Society, Seattle Inside Pages In-
    Depth (September 2001)
  • “September 11th: Piercing Our Unconscious.The C.G. Jung Page (September 2001)
  • “On the Borderland:” in: The Institute of Noetic Sciences Review, September-November 2000, No. 53.
  • “Listening in the Borderlands,” in: The Salt Journal, The Salt Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
  • January/February 2000, Volume 2, No. 2.
  • “Genocide as an Archetypal Phenomenon” Unpublished paper presented at CIDSE-CARITAS
  • International workshop on Rwanda, Leuven, Belgium, 1995.
  • “An Archetypal Dilemma: The L.A. Riots” in The Shadow in America: Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation,
  • Jeremiah Abrams, ed. (Nataraj Publishing, 1994.)
  • “Beyond the Individual: Analytical Psychology Applied to Groups and Nations,” in: Carl Gustav Jung:
  • Critical Assessments, Renos Popadopoulos, ed. (Routledge, 1993)
  • “Penetrating the Archetypal Dilemma of Racism,” in: Psychological Perspectives: A Journal of Global
  • Consciousness, Issue 27,1992.
  • “Workshop on Jung and Anti-Semitism” – Eleventh International Congress of The International
  • Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) in: Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians, and Anti-
  • Semitism, Aryeh Maidenbaum and Stephen A. Martin, eds. (Shambhala, 1991)
  • “The U.S.-Soviet Mirror,” in: Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature,
  • Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams eds. (Tarcher, Inc. 1991)
  • “Victory in Iraq?: A question of Moral Consciousness” in: Psychological Perspectives: A Journal of
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    On-line copy of the Foreword to I Ching by Carl Gustav Jung. When taking stock I noticed that I started this Blog 2 days after September 11th 2001.

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