Myrieme Churchill
Cognoscenti contributor
Myrieme Churchill is the executive director of Parents For Peace. She has more than 30 years of experience working as a psychotherapist, and her work has been featured in NPR, The Washington Post, MSNBC and Bloomberg.
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I work with families in the grips of radicalization. We need each other to prevent extremism
As our society is pulled further to extremes, more American families are learning that a loved one's radicalization is not a niche problem, writes Myrieme Churchill, the executive director of...
Extremism is a disease. Why don't we treat it like one?
Ten years after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, our society sees extremism primarily as a moral and political issue, writes Myrieme Churchill. We are more preoccupied with showing our...
What the attack on Salman Rushdie tells us about extremism
Hate is a drug of choice, and the resulting extremism can work in ways similar to addiction, writes Myrieme Churchill.