On June 20, 2018, International Refugee Day, CBC’s The Current aired So They Can Rest A Little. This is a moving documentary on the fate of Yazidi women tortured, persecuted and sold into slavery by their ISIS captors following a genocide in Iraq in August 2014. Following this … [Read more...]
One Free World International: A Psychologist’s Perspective
“One Free World International is a family.” That is what Rev. Majed El Shafie said to me at our first meeting last year. “And now you are one of this family,” he added months later when I had become actively involved in this indispensable organization. And indeed OFWI is a … [Read more...]
A New Book Review in Psychology Today by Dr. Molly Castelloe
I was delighted last week to read a wonderful review of The Power of Names in Psychology Today. The author of the piece, Molly Castelloe, Ph.D., is a psychologist, writer and actor who obtained her doctorate from New York University in theatre and psychoanalysis. Her blog, The Me … [Read more...]
Elena Ferrante and the Question of Authorial Anonymity
“Names and surnames are labels,” writes Elena Ferrante, the successful Italian author of the Neapolitan quartet, who has recently published Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, a book of her letters, essays and interviews. Ferrante, who has chosen to remain anonymous by withholding … [Read more...]
What Does Your Name Say about You? [U of T] Alumna Mavis Himes delves into the hidden meanings and social weight of what we call ourselves
This article was first published in U of T Magazine in December 2016 and is re-posted here with full permission. Why are some first names such as Michael and Olivia popular year after year, but you never meet anyone named “Seven” or “Soda”? What we call ourselves – and why – … [Read more...]