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Weekends at Bellevue

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Ever wanted to go beyond the doors of a psychiatric hospital? To have a key to the locked units? To witness the day-to-day at a legendary institution mired in mystery and folklore? Weekends at Bellevue, ...
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Women and Violence

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
The impact of violence against women is too often masked by silence. Its continuation depends on silence. Distance keeps us safe and unless one personally experiences violence or knows someone who has, many of us ...
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The Depression Advantage

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...
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Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Bobbe Tyler, author, nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator for Lucasfilm Ltd, has written a book of the type, and in the style, that has kept her alive all these years. Her book, Searching ...
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Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most difficult conditions for anyone to bear. Many who encounter life-threatening events or situations that threaten physical or emotional safety become burdened by a variety of intense ...
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Purge: Rehab Diaries

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
In our society, eating disorders are mostly misunderstood and glamorized. We’re told that everyone with an eating disorder is skin and bones. That just by looking at someone we can easily spot the starvation, the ...
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A Brief History of Anxiety: Yours and Mine

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
In the U.S., 40 million adults have an anxiety disorder. Author Patricia Pearson is one of them: She is a regular visitor to Flu Wiki, an online community that fears an impending influenza outbreak. She ...
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
One of the more humbling things about being a senior therapist is realizing the cases where we missed it because we didn't have adequate training at the time or because the disorder hadn't been adequately ...
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60 On Up: The Truth About Aging in America

Monday, May 25th, 2009
When I was in graduate school in the mid-1970s, I felt strangely out of sync with my fellow students. Then I happened on Worlds of Pain, a groundbreaking book by Lillian Rubin about working-class life ...
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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin By Norah Vincent New York: Viking, December 2008 Hardcover, 283 pages $25.95 Immersion journalism, as it’s called, can be kind of fun on a limited basis. In my days ...
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What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
There’s plenty of wisdom in this book, provided you arm yourself with an unabridged copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, and perhaps an advanced degree or two, before picking it up. Hollis, a teacher at the ...
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American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Those of us who are nearing retirement from work as a psychotherapist have been privileged to witness extraordinary changes over the course of our careers. Few therapists I know have clung solely to their original ...
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The Lives They Left Behind

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
The Lives They Left Behind is an intriguing historical tale about the Willard Psychiatric Center, located in Seneca Lake, New York. Although it operated for 126 years with over 54,000 people calling it "home" during ...
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The Language of Emotional Intelligence

Monday, February 2nd, 2009
If you're reading this website, you've probably heard the term emotional intelligence before, but you may not know exactly what it is. And even if you know what it is, you may not really have ...
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Locating ‘Psychological-Self Help’ Within the World of Self-Help

Monday, January 19th, 2009
This essay will discuss the online self-help book Psychological Self-Help by Dr. Clayton Tucker-Ladd. Since late 2004 I have had the good fortune to be able to discuss the book with Clay via ...
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