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An Open Letter to Young Adults about Sex, Drugs and Alcohol

February 27, 2015 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

Dear Young Person: Alcohol, drugs and sexuality can enhance and create life. They work. They can alter your moods, change your perceptions and disinhibit you. It’s fun to be able to behave differently. Blotting out discomfort relieves anxiety. Going wild can release tension. Alcohol, drugs and sexuality have always been part of the human experience. […]

Filed Under: adolescence, human interaction, identity, relationships, young adults Tagged With: adolescent anxiety, adolescent drinking, adolescent sexuality, alcohol and hooking up, alcohol and young adults, drugs and young adults, is saying no okay, sexuality and young adults

Thinking Through Diversity

May 28, 2014 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

I have been very involved in thinking about how the ideas of diversity help us build our shared society.  I recently published this piece on CNN.com trying to pull together a way of conceptualizing how in our diversity we are together.

Filed Under: diversity studies, identity, Uncategorized Tagged With: black white relations, diversity, diversity culture, human diversity, integrating society, racial togetherness, white diversity

Affluenza doesn’t excuse wrongdoing

December 13, 2013 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

from “The Guardian” Ethan Couch’s lawyer defended him by stating that he was not responsible for driving drunk and killing four people because he had “affluenza”.The legal argument dazzles.  Psychological research doesn’t support it.

Filed Under: diagnosis, diversity studies, identity, mental illness Tagged With: affluenza, does affluenza exist, Ethan Couch, is affluenza just, is affluenza real

Numbers Don’t Tell The Whole Story

September 13, 2012 by Susan Bodnar 1 Comment

Does being self-reliant mean a person can’t also have needs? Is the success of the wealthy also built upon the working and middle classes? Are those stricken by poverty affected by the more resourced classes? Some thoughts about this at the InAmerica blog at CNN.com.

Filed Under: human interaction, identity, Uncategorized, unemployment Tagged With: behavior during Great Depression, class identity, class struggle, elites and working classes, income disparity, income inequality, rise in poverty 2012, tension between classes, upward mobility

Why Therapy?

September 9, 2012 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

People who consult with me rarely ask this question directly, but it often lingers in the background.  The assumed but often unstated answer emphasizes how talking to a trained clinician will help diminish problems like depression/anxiety/obsessions. That answer, however,  rarely satisfies.  What people really want to know is “Why do I NEED therapy? The best […]

Filed Under: human interaction, identity Tagged With: how to find a therapist, non-medical model therapy, therapists NYC, what is therapy, when to seek a therapist, who needs therapy, why therapy

Identity and Environments

February 5, 2012 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

When I spent time with my grandmother in McAdoo, PA, I found myself speaking with that inflected “yous” that meant “you.” As a student at Wesleyan University I was very open and even funny.  I spent some time in the Philippines as a child, and still retain some native culture style naturalness. At home, I […]

Filed Under: identity, Uncategorized Tagged With: cultural identity, environmental identity, gender identity, identity, identity and place, multiple identities, racial identity, social identity

Social class in white America

February 5, 2012 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

A post on class in white America from InAmerica/CNN.com and a creative response to Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State Of White America 1960-2010

Filed Under: human interaction, identity, race Tagged With: class in America, identity and class in America, social class in white america, white working class, working class

New Post on CNN about Identity

November 25, 2011 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

I’ve been doing some thinking about identity.  Please see this post, “Don’t forget where you came from”  and Learning from baba’s list featured on CNN’s great new In America blog: “You define America. What defines you?”

Filed Under: identity Tagged With: anthracite coal mining, CNN blog in america, coal mining past, in america, where you come from, working class roots

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