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Your most important possession is your integrity. It’s your trustworthiness, word of honor. Yet at some point you’ve certainly violated this most “sacred” part of yourself. Why?
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Parents want their children to lead happy lives, but paradoxically this can lead them to push their children in the wrong directions
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Mental illness--like depression, anxiety, and even schizophrenia--is a game, a strategy, invented by the player (often without acknowledgment) to achieve some end, or "payoff."
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Pop neuroscience represents a reductionistic misapplication of knowledge, ignores differences between persons, and negates explanations of human conduct in terms of free will.
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We’re glimpsing the possibility of face-to-face therapy being replaced by virtual, tech-based modalities.
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Having trouble sleeping? A new study reveals that having purpose in daily life leads to better quality of sleep at night, and even prevents sleep disorders.
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Therapeutic touch can be effective if used appropriately.
View ArticleThe Political Uses of Psychiatric Labels
The "Goldwater Rule" and the psychiatrization of sociopolitical conflict.
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With Zeus wielding power to create anything and Sisyphus, trapped in eternal futility, how can a couples therapist help break this deadlock?
View ArticleBattling Your Inner Dragons
Some people get up and go to work. Other people have to fight a dragon to get there. Or a series of dragons—the dragons of depression or anxiety.
View ArticleThe Bad Advice Fearful Fliers Are Exposed To
Anxious fliers are not helped by statistics that only one plane in 11 million crashes. They imagine what it was like to be on the one that crashed.
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