Warning! Graphic Content Ahead! You can turn back now ... or choose to read further. Have you ever gone to an online news source to suddenly, surprisingly encounter a gut-wrenching headline or photo? Did ...

“I’ve had it.” The parent on the phone is incensed. “The teacher just won’t listen to me. My child needs more individual attention. She isn’t a bad kid. She just needs more help. She’s on an education plan ...

Houston Rockets rookie Royce White is a star in more ways than one. White says he is like everyone else. He enjoys going to the movies and listening to music. He was the No. 16 pick in the 2012 NBA draft, ...

Crisis intervention in natural disasters is important to look at from many different angles. The points of view of those experiencing the disaster and those of relief workers should be considered when developing models and considerations for interventions and emotional care. Other factors, ...

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Trevor was a preteen growing up in the breathtaking landscape of McCall, Idaho -- a carefree kid who enjoyed being active and swimming in the local lake. When he became plagued with sharp, debilitating headaches, Trevor's doctor diagnosed him with a sinus infection and sent him on his way. Trevor and his mother, Charlie, however, ...

My son Dan suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder so severe he couldn’t even eat. He’d get stuck sitting in one particular chair, hunched over with his head in his hands for hours at a time, was tied to the clock ...

With students heading off to college this month, I can’t help but think back to when my son Dan was a freshman, fifteen hundred miles from home. He had been diagnosed with ...

The International Day for Disaster Reduction is October 12. And my thoughts are turning more that direction than toward Halloween decorations, costumes and candy. At this time of year in 2011, those of us in the northeastern U.S. were all reminded ...

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When many people think of immigrants disembarking at Ellis Island a century ago, they imagine swarms of recent arrivals being examined for infectious diseases and many being quarantined or turned away because they were deemed a threat to public health. But in Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island, the British scholar ...

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Some topics are off-limits, whether the conversation happens in your living room, on the street, or in the research lab. If they’re not exactly off-limits, they are at least uncomfortable, causing us to shift in our seats and want to change the subject. One such topic is stereotypes -- specifically, the question of whether they ...

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Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedomis a collection of essays examining the complex, often paradoxical relationships between psychoanalysis and politically repressive European, Latin American and North American regimes from the 1930s to the present. These relationships run counter to the view that a certain level of political and social ...

Unlike his colleague Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler -- another early 20th century psychologist -- wasn’t interested in analyzing the psyche of individuals. Instead, he focused on the degree to which people feel nested in community. To Adler, the ...