‘Not In My Backyard’ (NIMBY)
Thanks to Margaret Boyes and John Armstrong for sharing the following news article with me, concerning the proposed opening in a suburban neighborhood of a group residence for adults with addiction. In my reading, the article briefly raises several Social Role Valorization-relevant points: • the wounds of rejection and distantiation; regardless of whether you agree […]
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:42 pm by MTumeinski · Permalink
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Physiological reactions to the wounds of rejection, distantiation
This essay from the NY Times Sunday Review describes a study which pointed out one of the involuntary physiological reactions we have to being rejected, excluded, cast into societally devalued roles (such as ‘other’): namely, a drop in body temperature in our extremities (such as our fingertips). This study underscores the reality and depth of […]
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 3:18 pm by MTumeinski · Permalink
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