Category Archives: Books

Viktor Frankl and Excusing Evil

Posted on November 22, 2011 by jeffreymasson

Viktor Frankl, a Viennese Jewish psychiatrist, who survived the holocaust to found a school of psychotherapy called “logotherapy” was born in Vienna in 1905, and died in 1997. I was recently alerted by a comment of Thomas Szasz, that Frankl … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Psychiatry, Books, Uncategorized | Tagged Austria, concentration camp guards, concentration camps, Dr. Heinrich Gross, ECT, Erwin Jekelius, evil, forgive and forget, forgiveness, lobotomies, logotherapy, Lubianka prison, Man's Search for Meaning, Paula Hitler, psychiatry, reconciliationkilling children, sadism, Third Reich, Thomas Szasz, Viktor Frankl | 20 Comments

Do Animals Get Depressed?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by jeffreymasson

I re-read William Styron’s 1991 “tale of horror,” Darkness Visible about his deep depression in the 1980s. I could not help thinking, as I was reading, the big cats don’t get depressed… sharks don’t get depressed… elephants don’t get depressed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Rights, Animals, Anti-Psychiatry, Books, Dogs, Uncategorized, Vegetarianism and Veganism | Tagged abnormal behavior in animals, abnormal behavior in zoo animals, anger and depression, animals and depression, animals and suicide, animals in zoos, captive animals, cats and suicide, concentration camps and depression, David Foster Wallace, Depression, diabetes and diet, dogs and suicide, dolphins and suicide, drugs and depression, Flipper, genocide, Jane Goodall, Jonathan Franzen, mental illness, narcissism and depression, natural world, no genocide in the natural world, PTSD, rage and depression, Rick O'Barry, styron, suicide in dolphins, The Cove, veganism, whales and suicide | 8 Comments

Do we really know anything about intelligence in dogs or humans?

Posted on September 7, 2010 by jeffreymasson

Yesterday I visited a friend whose backyard garden always enchants me: there are doves flying free who come back to their dovecote in the giant Pohutakawa tree; she has two ultra-tame chickens running free (there are no native mammals in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Rights, Books, Dogs | Tagged animal empathy, animal intelligence, coevolution, dogs, the dog who couldn't stop loving | 14 Comments

Category Archives: Books

Viktor Frankl and Excusing Evil

Do Animals Get Depressed?

Do we really know anything about intelligence in dogs or humans?

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