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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
The Inner Circle acknowledges, Dr. James Eyerman, MD, DLFAPA, as Doctor of the Year 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating a Leader in Mind-Body Psychiatry. Dr. James Eyerman, MD, DLFAPA, has been honored as Doctor of the Year 2025 by The Inner Circle for his groundbreaking work in psychiatry. Board certified in general psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, and integrative holistic medicine, Dr. Eyerman brings a rich, whole-person approach to mental health. Known for his warm, thoughtful care, Dr. Eyerman combines traditional psychiatry with a wide range of healing practices—including Jungian dream work, family systems, psycho-spiritual guidance, Ayurvedic medicine, and carefully managed medication. His mission: to help each individual find balance, meaning, and vitality. Dr. Eyerman also leads weekly Holotropic Breathwork workshops, where participants explore inner healing through conscious breathing, music, and body awareness. These powerful sessions offer a space for self-discovery, transformation, and deep emotional release. His educational journey began with a degree in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross, followed by a medical degree from St. Louis University. He trained in psychiatry at Washington University and deepened his holistic perspective during a year in Europe studying transcendental meditation. His early research work at the Missouri Institute of Psychiatry focused on psychiatric emergencies. A respected voice in his field, Dr. Eyerman is actively involved in organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association and the Northern California Psychiatric Society. He has served as President of the North Bay Psychiatric Society and contributes to professional and charitable initiatives throughout the region. In 2023, Touro University honored him as Teacher of the Year, reflecting his deep commitment to mentoring the next generation of healers. Dr. Eyerman credits his success to the wisdom of teachers and mentors such as Drs. Eli Robbins, Sam Guze, Robert Cloninger, Ferus Pitts, Stanislav Grof—and to spiritual influences including the Dalai Lama, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Shree Maa of Kamakhya. Looking ahead, Dr. Eyerman continues to evolve his work, blending science, soul, and compassionate care. His vision is clear: to support healing and transformation through a truly integrative approach to psychiatry and medicine. Contact: Katherine Green, 516-825-5634, editorialteam@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE The Inner Circle
Epoch Times
11-05-2025
- General
- Epoch Times
Killed With Kindness: It's Anything but Helpful to Slam RFK Jr. for Wanting to Find a Cure for Autism
Commentary The devouring mother. If you're familiar with this Jungian archetype, it's almost certainly via Jordan Peterson, who has done the most to popularize and apply it to today's social and political scene. In basic terms, the devouring mother is what you get when the maternal instinct to nurture goes haywire. Nurturance is a balancing act: Yes, the mother must offer warmth and protection and love, but she must also give the child space to experience the world for itself and, most of all, to take risks. Risk entails the potential for harm up to and including death, and yet without risk, genuine development simply isn't possible. But instead of taking this balanced approach, the devouring mother coddles the child—and then the teenager and the adult—to death, wrapping them so tightly they can't move and, as a result, they never get to fulfill their inborn potential. It's a kind of malignant but well-meaning concern, a hideously overgrown safetyism, that Peterson has linked to the rise of so-called 'woke' politics and politically correct codes, but we can see it at work elsewhere too. The medical industry and its ever-growing power over society, for example. In Ken Kesey's 1962 novel 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' the novelist embodies the devouring mother in Nurse Ratched, chief nurse at the Salem State Mental Hospital. Ratched destroys the men in her care—lobotomizes them, quite literally, with love. Everything that's done is done for the inmates' 'benefit,' even if it deprives them of what remains of their sanity and ultimately their lives. 'We're living in a matriarchy, man,' says one of the inmates, grimly. Tellingly, perhaps, in the summer of 2020 Nurse Ratched was given a television series of her own in an attempt to rehabilitate her for a new generation—just as the pandemic was swallowing the lives of an entire generation of children. We also see this devouring attitude, or something of it, in the autism debate, where a misplaced sense of kindness threatens to stifle research that could reduce or even cure the suffering of millions of children. Related Stories 3/14/2025 2/13/2025 A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the 'most comprehensive' investigation ever into the condition, which will identify environmental factors driving the massive increase in cases. Speaking at a press conference at the White House, Kennedy said autism 'destroys families,' describing in moving terms the extraordinary hardships faced by sufferers and their families, especially in serious cases where the child is non-verbal and will be unable to live an independent life ever. In the weeks since the announcement, Kennedy has spoken at length about the need for such an investigation and outlined his aims. He told radio host John Catsimatidis that autism 'dwarfs the COVID epidemic' and should be taken more seriously than COVID because it destroys the potential of the young specifically. 'This is an epidemic. It dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the impacts on our country because COVID killed old people. Autism affects children and affects them at the beginning of their lives, the beginning of their productivity,' he said. Kennedy has also been quite clear about the economic costs of this autism epidemic. He told Catsimatidis that the 'pure economic cost' of autism will be $1 trillion a year by 2035. Kennedy's announcement has been welcomed as long overdue, but in some quarters the response has been furious. Some have said that Kennedy's comments were 'disrespectful' and that his aim of identifying environmental causes of the condition is 'unrealistic and misleading.' Many seem to believe that, by saying he wants to cure autism, Kennedy really means autistic people have no value as autistic people at all. They must be normal or nothing. Let's be clear: Autism is a hugely emotive issue. Any issue involving the welfare and the suffering of children is bound to be. Autistic people and their families can certainly be forgiven a bit of emotion, since they're the principal sufferers. And it is true that autistic and disabled people have been marginalized, deprived, and dehumanized in the past. Their rights and moral recognition have been hard won and must be guarded forcefully to ensure they're not infringed or eliminated. But emotion, as we know, often clouds judgment. You can love and cherish a disabled child and still wish for the disability they suffer not to be visited on anyone else's child. Man does not have to hand on misery to man, to paraphrase the poet Philip Larkin. And the issue is made rather more straightforward if, as Kennedy is suggesting, the difference may be eliminating environmental toxins, rather than engaging in practices like embryo selection or IVF, which would draw inevitable moral concerns about 'eugenics' in particular. Kennedy is right to draw attention to the mind-boggling scale of the problem. On the day of the conference at the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention There's every reason to believe that, even if autism has a genetic component, which I think it does, many cases are also driven by environmental influences. Kennedy has already named five he believes must be considered in the course of his new investigation: mold, food additives, pesticides, vaccines, and ultrasound. In each case, there is credible scientific evidence, including epidemiological studies and case studies, that supports Kennedy's claim. Consider mold and fungus. It's been established that children diagnosed with autism Kennedy's five toxins are unlikely to exhaust the environmental causes of autism—gluten is another candidate, for example; it's Clearly, this is a complex problem, and it may be that only some, not all, cases of autism have an environmental cause or causes at their root. But if there are environmental causes of autism, there's no reason to believe we can't identify them and do something about them, alleviating the suffering of many, many people. To not even try, out of some belief that doing so would be a disservice or disrespect to those with autism, would be to kill the possibility of a better world with misplaced kindness. What a risk to take. Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Daily Maverick
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Maverick
JK Rowling's court victory over definition of a woman makes Tannie Helen turn orange with glee
After the executive order from US President Donald Trump insisting that there are only two genders (male and female), the UK obviously felt it had to keep up with the Joneses and its supreme court declared that, in law, women are to be defined in biological terms only – which is to say, really, that men and women are defined biologically. This basically means that those who don't want to switch pronouns, or even think about which is the right pronoun for someone who isn't exactly matched as far as sex and gender go, no longer need bother to apply their minds. Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist who has been blathering on for decades about how the West had better militarise its men a bit more or face the downfall of its civilisation, will surely be pleased. He has been huffing and puffing about how onerous it is for a big, strong masculine man like him, men so confident in their masculinity that they can give advice on how to be men, to have to use they/them pronouns when referring to a person not desirous of being called he/him or she/her. Peterson is obviously very much wedded to his kind of 'Jungian' male/female binary, as well as to a highly gendered kind of grammar – imagine if the nouns and verbs don't agree! The world ends! It is clearly an offence to his exquisitely sensitive soul to have to imagine that there are any genders beyond the standard male and female, or that biological sex might not align perfectly with gender and/or a person's inner sense of what their gender might be – see what I did there? The stones cry out. They cry out against such grammatical and genderous aberrations! Surely Peterson, who spent several months in Russia in an induced coma to get over his opioid addiction, must, while in that limbo state, have dreamt wildly of being persecuted by creatures of genders he could not bear to contemplate. It was, however, JK Rowling, billionaire author of the Harry Potter books, who funded the legal challenge in the UK Supreme Court. She has been campaigning strongly for some time now against trans people, particularly trans women, because in her old-fashioned form of reactionary feminism she cannot possibly see that that trans woman using ladies' toilets is anything but a man in disguise. She may be more worried about the state of her mascara than she may be wanting to rape anyone in the toilet area with her, but as far as Rowling is concerned, she hasn't had the life experience of being a woman so she can't be a woman. Finish and klaar. This position is tagged Terf, as in trans-exclusionary radical feminism, though in South Africa we might be more comfortable calling Rowling a teef (bitch). Anyway, Rowling celebrated the court victory by flooding social media with pictures of her sitting on her yacht, somewhere in the Mediterranean perhaps, smoking a cigar. Never mind that a cigar is distinctly masculine-coded, so JK is doing a little trans-smoking here. What that image tells us is that what seems a fairly basic legal redefinition is a big issue for Rowling, and its significance goes beyond the surface declaration and vindicates her war on trans women. Enter Zille Bully for her. Or bully for the bully. More to the point, for us anyway, was the reaction in South Africa. One reaction. Barely had Rowling lit that cigar than Helen Zille, grande dame and reigning ideologue of the DA, was furiously agreeing with her on the socials. God forbid that Tannie Helen, the face that launched 1,000 shits, should be left behind if there's an opportunity to bash the woke. This has been her stock-in-trade ever since she imported some crusty Republican talking points from the US, and gawd knows stuff that comes from the US is so much better than anything we could actually produce here on the continent of Africa. Anyway, Zille said on the Musk propaganda platform that the judges in this case 'have protected the rights of women across the English-speaking world from a contagion as dangerous, socially, as Covid was, medically. We thank you from the Southern tip of Africa.' Just the tip? Zille later went on to elaborate on her utterance in an ostensibly more nuanced way, or at least in a more wordy way, admitting that this trans business applies to a very tiny proportion of the population and failing to tell us why, then, it looms so large in her fevered imagination. It's clear, at any rate, that this great legal victory is not only about protecting 'women's spaces', but also about the plague of kids 'suddenly' discovering themselves as trans, a plague that has swept across the 'English-speaking world' and… what? Killed as many people as Covid? This is getting unpleasantly Musky. Elon, as we know, has been bemoaning the transness of one of his many children (he wanted only male children, dammit), regarding her as dead and railing against the 'woke mind virus' that caused this particular transformation to happen, as though his daughter entirely lacked agency. Note the echo in his language of Zille's 'contagion', and how the disease metaphor is so favoured by people stirring up a moral panic even as they discount the effects of actual disease. Also, that 'English-speaking world' – does Zille imagine that laws promulgated in the Scottish high court have some purchase on the southern tip of Africa? Or anywhere other than in the UK, for that matter? Is she some kind of colonialist, then, yearning for the firm hand of control as exercised by the British Empire, which as we know can do no wrong? Oh, wait… I don't know what all the answers are to the social, familial and personal problems that arise from the upsetting of old-fashioned gender norms, but I know a bit of knee-jerk prejudice when I see it. And I know a kind of glee when it's expressed in relation to the 'other' whose existence bothers you so much, if it really bothers you and this isn't just political opportunism. I fear Zille actually believes this stuff, and/or has come to believe it as she sheds, bit by bit, all that ancient liberal stuff about the personal self-determination of the individual and so forth.
India Today
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Dev and Vijay Anand: It takes two to tango
(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated April 28, 2025)A large number of Indian cinema publications are anecdote-driven or based on salacious behind-the-scenes stories. Occasionally, though, a book is written with such care and attention to detail that it makes you want to drop everything and head straight to the films being discussed—so you can savour what the author saw in them, or disagree with her, or both at the same time. Tanuja Chaturvedi's Hum Dono—a 'guru-dakshina' for Vijay (also known as Goldie) and Dev Anand and the classics they made together—is in this relationship with the Anand brothers' Navketan Films began in childhood (she got to meet Dev Anand at age five, an overwhelming experience for a girl who had only watched the charismatic star on the big screen), but took a new shape at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) where she learnt to appreciate Vijay Anand's technical proficiency and 'command over every aspect of filmmaking'. This was followed by a professional stint as Dev Anand's chief assistant facet of this long-lasting bond is represented here. The book has two dominant tones. One is that of the awestruck fan: the child who was rapt while watching films like Guide, as well as the adult who retained her passion for the Navketan flair, the songs, the modern approach to city life. The second tone, more pedantic, is that of the scholar and practitioner who knows a great deal about film history and likes to show off this knowledge, making references and connections that may seem whimsical or pretentious to a casual reader: from Camille Paglia's take on the differences between men and women (in the context of gender roles in the 1961 film Hum Dono) to fleeting invocations of Jungian psychology to a mention of Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (while discussing the process of adapting R.K. Narayan's The Guide for the screen)And yet, somehow, these two modes come together very well in Chaturvedi's chronological examinations of individual films—from 1957's Nau do Gyarah to 1971's Tere Mere Sapne. Notably, though, the book is presented as a 'Dev and Goldie story', and though the author is a big fan of Dev Anand (the star and the person), she focuses a little more on Vijay Anand's special qualities as a director. This includes analyses of the celebrated song sequences in films like Jewel Thief, Guide and Johny Mera Naam, as well as Goldie's intuitive understanding of framing and camera movement, the gambles he took with narrative structure, and how he incorporated a progressive sensibility into even his early work such as Kala Bazar. To read Hum Dono is to see an egalitarian passion for the medium, unconcerned with the usual labels and hierarchies—popular vs art, serious vs entertaining—that often restrict film to India Today Magazine Must Watch
Perth Now
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Kate Beckinsale shares agony over loss of step-dad Roy Battersby
Kate Beckinsale has shared an emotional tribute to her step-dad Roy Battersby a year after his death. The Hollywood actress - who lost her biological father Richard Beckinsale when she was five years old - was left devastated when her TV director stepfather passed away in January 2024 at the age of 87 and she shared her pain over the Easter weekend as she would have celebrated Roy's birthday on Sunday (20.04.25). In a post on Instagram, she wrote: "Happy birthday Roy. Given I've been waiting all day can you rise again - ideally tomorrow … that would be great. "You being dead is really f****** wearing now. I love you so very much and I wish you had been here to have your birthday and Easter on the same day but anyway see you tomorrow. I shall be waiting at the mouth of the cave." Kate previously admitted she will always be "haunted" by the loss of both father figures in her life. In a post on Instagram, she wrote: "Finding my father's dead body alone in the middle of the night at the age of five shaped my entire life. Seeing my beloved stepfather die a year ago today will haunt me forever. "It does seem terribly careless to have managed to be present for both deaths and unable to prevent either, the second time trying with every single thing I had. It was not enough. "In the process of losing my beloved Roy I lost family, friendships, at some points my own health, and all the money I had due to how disgusting the American healthcare system is for those who are not insured. "I would do it again. No question. I cannot help feeling that I dreadfully failed - but I am trying to console myself today with all the preparation that he did in the last years of his life, how deeply he studied and practised as a Jungian and how thin the veil is between the energy of this life and whatever is next,that some part of him was at peace with it. "It does feel like a lie I am telling myself to try and feel better, however. Perhaps I am just unfortunately not enlightened enough to sell that to myself over my sense of loss, guilt and failure."
