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5 Clues You Should Be Letting Go of Something

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Awhile back I discussed Eileen Flanagan's book, The Wisdom to Know the Difference. If you'd like to learn more about her, visit her website at www.EileenFlanagan.com. Therese: What ...

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Best of Our Blogs: November 6, 2009

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I'm attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy today, and I'll write more about the inspirational work this organization ...

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Bye Bye Asperger’s Syndrome?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Is the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome -- a mild form of autism mostly diagnosed in boys -- heading the way of the dodo bird? A new article ...

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Introducing Weightless: A Blog About Body Image

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

You really can't help but be overwhelmed by the amount of focus these days on how a person looks. The people who are most harmed by this shallowness are women, especially young adults, as so ...

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Design Can Encourage Greater Self-Disclosure

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Every day, our behavior is directly influenced by a number of factors, some of which we may not even ...

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Psychotherapists Unmasked on the Internet

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Five years ago I was having lunch with my father, a psychiatrist of almost 45 years. He was ...

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Behavioral Economics: This Is Your Brain On Money

Monday, October 26th, 2009

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that with recession-related anxiety saturating the very air we breathe, we might be a bit slow to trust our financial decisions. For ...

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Why Sleeping On It Helps

Monday, October 26th, 2009

We're often told, "You should sleep on it" before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does "sleeping on it" help your decision-making ...

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Optimism: Great Technology That Can Help You

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Ever since I was discharged from the inpatient psychiatric program at Johns Hopkins, I have kept a mood journal where I daily ...

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Getting Help for Depression Online

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

As promised, this is one in a series of posts I'll write about online interventions that help treat ...

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The 7 Laws of Boundaries

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

One of the classic books on how to establish better personal boundaries is "Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take ...

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Introducing the Journal of Participatory Medicine

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Well, today's the day. After many months of long, hard work by many talented professionals -- among them, Sarah Greene, managing editor; co-editors Jessie Gruman and Charles Smith; and Alan Greene, deputy editor -- the ...

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