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Since When Do We, as Social Workers, Oppose Written Informed Consent? By Elizabeth Curley, MSW, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Lacasse, MSW, Ph.D.

Modern civilization rests on a conceptual mistake so normalized that it has become invisible. We assume that reality is best understood through binary logic—true or false, mind or body, subject or object, right or wrong. This framework has undeniable utility in engineering and computation. It builds bridges. It runs machines. It structures algorithms.

But the human being is not a machine. The human being is a self-regulated organism.

When binary logic—designed for closed systems—becomes the dominant lens for interpreting living systems, distortion follows. The organism is reduced to mechanism. Feeling is subordinated to calculation. Development becomes optimization. And society begins to fracture along the very binaries it uses to define itself.

Error at the Root Feeling, the Organism, and the Regressive Trap of Binary Logic – (5 minutes read time). Introduction: The Error at the Root Modern civilization rests on a conceptual mistake so normalized tha…

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"Assault" and "Torture": Patients Recall the Institutional Violence of Forced Drugging A new article published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology finds that patients often experience forced drugging in psychiatric contexts as A new scoping review exposes the psychological trauma and institutional power dynamics behind forced drugging, highlighting the urgent call from survivors f...

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Disability Alliance BC Calls on MLA Tara Armstrong to Resign Following Harmful and Misleading Comments About People with Disabilities - Disability Alliance BC Disability Alliance BC (DABC) unequivocally condemns the public comments made by MLA Tara Armstrong on July 13th, 2026, regarding people receiving Disability Assistance (known as PWD). MLA Armstrong stated that “the government’s welfare law hands out disability payments to drug addicts simply be...