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Diabetes and Depression

Depression can strike anyone, but people with diabetes may be at a greater risk. Diabetes is a serious health concern that afflicts an estimated 16 million Americans. Treatment for depression helps people manage symptoms of ... Read more... »

Legal Issues for Cohabiting Couples

You and your partner have decided to live together. Whether you see it as an alternative to marriage or as a temporary arrangement, it's important to understand your legal rights and responsibilities. You may see ... Read more... »

Humor As a Key to Child Development

The things that children find funny tell us a great deal about their level of development and what is on their minds. There is a connection between the 2-year-old who bursts into a fit of ... Read more... »

Get More Out of Psychotherapy: Collaborate with Your Therapist

The decision to work with a therapist is never straightforward, but there are times in life when we just need that extra emotional support. While we may have loved ones who will help us ... Read more... »

In-Depth: Understanding Dissociative Disorders

Dissociation is a common defense/reaction to stressful or traumatic situations. Severe isolated traumas or repeated traumas may result in a person developing a dissociative disorder. ... Read more... »

Are Your ‘Money Myths’ Holding You Back?

According to social learning theory, our attitude toward money is learned behavior that is passed from generation to generation. Money hoarders live by the phrase "but I might need it someday" and resist spending, sometimes ... Read more... »

Recommended Books on ADHD

Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand attention deficit disorder (ADHD)? We recommend the following: Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ... Read more... »

Recommended Books on Bipolar

Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand bipolar disorder (also called manic depression)? We recommend the following: Madness: A Bipolar Life By the author of ... Read more... »

Recommended Books on Depression

Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand depression? We recommend the following: Active Treatment of Depression Addressing his fellow professionals in the mental ... Read more... »

Trust and Vulnerability in Relationships

A willingness to be vulnerable is a significant feature of lasting relationships — ones in which partners are allies, not foes. The need to form a mutually protective alliance is innate, according to psychoanalyst John ... Read more... »

Cohabitation: Issues That Affect Intimacy

Maybe you've been together for a number of years and moving in together seems like the next logical step. Maybe it's a matter of saving money. After all, why pay rent at two places if ... Read more... »

Streamlining Your Life

People frequently complain about a lack of time. Is there a realistic way can we steal back precious hours for what we really want to do? Streamlining your life may be the answer. Call a ... Read more... »

What’s Your Time Perspective?

We are all time travelers: We draw on past memories, experience the present and look forward to future rewards. But how easily we travel back and forth makes a crucial difference to how well we ... Read more... »

Modeling Responsibility for Kids

"Why can't you be more responsible?" How many times have we said it, thought it, wished it about our own children and heard it coming from the mouths of other parents? We want our ... Read more... »

Components of Recovery

Recovery has only recently become a word used in relation to the experience of psychiatric symptoms. Those of us who experience psychiatric symptoms are commonly told that these symptoms are incurable, that we will have ... Read more... »

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