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What are the links between social psychiatry and the family therapy movement?

Churchill asked his guest what he felt was the most important thing he had ever written. 'White Christmas,' was the reply. Churchill, perplexed, gave up and turned to someone else. It was only later that he was told that through a mix-up it was the composer Irving Berlin who had been invited to enjoy lunch and the wartime Prime Minister's company

Anarcha-feminism is, ultimately, a tautology. Anarchism seeks the liberation of all human beings from all kinds of oppression and a world without hierarchies, where people freely organise and self-manage all aspects of life and society on the basis of horizontality, equality, solidarity and mutual aid. Consequently, such a struggle necessarily entails working to change hierarchical relationships between the sexes, that is, anarchism is a specific type of feminism.

For about three weeks per medium-sized painting, artist Janet Rickus looks at squash, lemons, or a carefully selected group of ceramic crockery. Painters (myself included) often bristle at the discussion

Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin both struggled with the upheaval of the 20th century. Arendt's The Human Condition wins the argument.

Authors and Observer critics choose the books they will be giving as gifts this year – and the one they’d like to find in their own stocking

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

This article is an excerpt from the book "Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War," written by Robert Latiff, a member of the Bulletin Science and Security Board.

We spoke with author Sarah Winman about her newest novel and the real-life Mud Angels that inspired it.

In 2015, a young girl and her father crossed into the United States from the border with Mexico. Astrid and Arturo, K’iche’ Indians from Guatemala, were fleeing the systematic discrimination and violence their people have suffered for decades.