I came across this article today in the Lebanon (PA) Daily News, taking an EP perspective on violence via S. Pinker's Blank Slate. Nothing particularly new, but what struck me was that the author was a female director of a mental health agency. Not that it is rare for females to be MH agency directors, but that those indicators usually portend a not-so-kind view of EP, much less EP explanations of violence. My favorite line:

For years we have been asking the wrong question, "How do kids learn to be violent?" The more poignant question is "How do kids (and adults) learn not to be violent?" for surely our survival on many occasions throughout different eras has been dependent upon successful acts of violence.

I can only hope this is a sign of things to come in the metal health field.