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Are You a Physical Empath?

Empathic illnesses are those in which you manifest symptoms that are not your own. Take a quiz to discover if you're a physical empath and learn tips on how to protect yourself.read more

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Don't focus on the consequences of addiction

Looking at the results, rather than the causes, of addiction is a mistake.read more

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Is the Psychiatric System Broken?

Dire facts regarding the state of the psychiatric system in the U.S. today.read more

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The 12 Vital Questions of Mental Health

The future of mental health depends on us asking the right questions.read more

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Health Worriers and Their Families

A list of common mistakes made by the families of health worriers in their attempts to provide help.read more

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Gender Bias in Diagnosing Anger: Batterer or Borderline?

How much of a role does gender play in diagnostic labeling of people who rage? All are toxic in their impacts on those around them. Yet women tend to get labeled clinically as borderline while men get...

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Setting “Whole Body” Intentions as a Valentine’s Gift to You

February is about self love. This time of the year is a perfect time to assess what you desire. read more

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What Assistance Dogs Can and Can't Do

An assistance dog does not replace a handicapped person's missing abilities (such as vision), but rather performs narrowly defined tasks that his human companion has difficulty with.read more

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When Golden Retrievers Make the Best Therapists

A Golden Retriever to the Rescueread more

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Does “Mental Cheating” Hurt or Help a Romantic Relationship?

Many people fantasize about their neighbor’s spouse without committing adultery. It is common to have erotic fantasies about co-workers, strangers, and good old figments-of-our-imagination. While...

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Is Clinical Training Turning Into a Checklist?

We are always tempted to measure what is easily measured.read more

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Can We Create Mental Health?

There's a National Dialogue on Mental Health going on, and it's not all the same old, same old. Creating Community Solutions involves everyone (not just professionals) in the challenge of figuring out...

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Why Men Don't Like Shopping and (Most) Women Do

Men and women's different attitudes to shopping are a remnant of human beings' hunting and gathering past. read more

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Therapy Thru the Magnifying Glass of Sherlock Holmes

CSI, as any television viewer knows, is a popular form of a crime show based on forensic science. Psychotherapy is not unlike forensic science in that its focus is on uncovering the clues that have not...

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Manhattan Transference #6

The cure for acting out—is acting out. Using psychodramatic methods in uncovering transferences in group therapy.read more

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: 7 Effective Tips

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown in numerous research trials to be an extremely effective form of therapy. Many therapists practice CBT in slightly different ways. Here are 7 tips on...

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Why Do People Hold to Their Beliefs So Stubbornly?

A discussion of the problems attendant upon holding on to fallacious beliefs stubbornly—and the reasons why these views are intractable.read more

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Seven Ways to Become a Better You

Professor Arnold A. Lazarus pioneered CBT and created MMT (Multimodal Therapy) which is one of the most comprehensive yet elegant methods of psychological therapy ever conceived. Here is a quick, seven...

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Can Traumatic Experiences Make You More Creative?

Can posttraumatic growth also lead to increased creativity? The biographies of many highly creative people often link their inspiration to the tragedies they had injured. A recent research study...

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Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

The latest fad in both psychotherapy and self help is “mindfulness.” Derived from Zen Buddhism, it is a skill one can use to better tolerate emotional distress. When faced with distress, having ways to...

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