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		<title>I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine has obsessive-compulsive disorder. His OCD doesn’t take over his life, at least not ostensibly. He has some rituals, and occasionally he does things that raise eyebrows, but overall he’s a normal guy with a few rare quirks. Admittedly, his case is mild. But when the average person thinks of someone with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens Need A PR Director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The long-standing popular image of teenagers is that they are rebellious, self-centered, risk-taking, and don&#8217;t want anything to do with their parents. It is a time to search out one&#8217;s identity, travel with the pack, and reject family values. But this doesn&#8217;t fit the data from contemporary research on adolescence. No group of teens has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Margaret Wehrenberg published The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques:  Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it.  Now a workbook has been released to accompany the book.  While the book goes into more detail about different aspects of anxiety, the workbook includes enough background information to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving and Young Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving day. Such excitement! Such distress! An event nearly every family experiences a few times, if not more. The impact on children is as varied as their personalities. But a few guidelines might be helpful. One 4-year-old boy, whose family had moved to a new state at the beginning of the summer, seemed to adjust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rewire Your Brain for Love: Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thesis of Dr. Marsha Lucas’s new book is simple: By changing your brain, you can change your relationship. In fact, the title says it all: Rewire Your Brain for Love. The basic idea at play is one that is gaining more mainstream notice nowadays: neuroplasticity. In the introduction, Lucas highlights new research that confirms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Disciplining a Challenging Preschool Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: My son is four years old and he rules the house. His first response to everything is “No!” Getting him dressed, getting him to eat breakfast, getting him off to nursery school or day care is a daily struggle. He throws tantrums whenever he isn’t getting what he wants – and sometimes even when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Confession: Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in an age of frequent and easy confession. People seem eager to share private information and experiences that would have been kept as closely guarded secrets in years past, perhaps guarded by shame and humiliation. From talk shows and reality programming on television, to personal blogs on the Internet, we are flooded with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://psychcentral.com/lib/2012/the-art-of-confession-renewing-yourself-through-the-practice-of-honesty/</link>
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		<title>Sensitive Children Who Develop Significant Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent months I happened to work with a number of elementary-age children who had developed anxiety symptoms such as resistance to separation, excessive worrying, nightmares, restricted activity, and &#8220;meltdowns.&#8221; They were all very bright, creative children who engaged in a lot of fantasy play and were described by their parents as very sensitive. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexuality and Marital Intimacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good marriage is best friends with passion. Without the passion, you just have a friendship. For some, being companions is sufficient. But for most, it is not. One of the major casualties of the harried pace of modern marriage is the loss of sexual intimacy. It is too steep a price to pay. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wonderfully executed book which sets out with the lofty objective of organizing and taming our society’s fast-paced lifestyle, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life is a true prize in its class of literature.  It’s extremely thoughtful in its prose, giving the reader countless images and examples to better understand the relevance of the scientific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideology, Psychology, and Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ideology, Psychology, and Law is a wonderful collection of essays edited by Jon Hanson, the Alfred Smart Professor of Law and Director of The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School. This is the first book edited by Hanson, whose work has appeared in six other books and many periodicals. Hanson also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Elephants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I cried, I wanted to believe it was the alcohol that induced Mom’s words.  I had to believe it was the alcohol.  I don’t want them.  The words rang in my ears.  That’s the night my heart first broke. White Elephants is the story of Chynna Laird’s childhood with an alcoholic, bipolar mother.  Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if I told you that one secret to making a long-term relationship more fulfilling is to have another committed couple with whom you and your beloved could spend time?  The very premise of Two Plus Two is that it is important for couples to have couple friends.  Drs. Greif and Deal (a duo whose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://psychcentral.com/lib/2012/two-plus-two-couples-and-their-couple-friendships/</link>
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		<title>Overcoming the Fear of Making Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” This is a famous quote from Anne Lamott in her book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Intuitively, we know that perfectionism is unrealistic and restrictive, a tyrant that steals success. In fact, there are many sayings and experts that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://psychcentral.com/lib/2012/overcoming-the-fear-of-making-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Easy Steps to Reconnect: A Guide for Emotionally Avoidant Dads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was torture for Jason when his 13-year-old son, Dylan, gave him the “cold shoulder” and wouldn’t speak to him. Jason felt his angry reactions were justified because he believed Dylan was at fault. Jason defended his position, often lecturing Dylan. Alternatively, he would give Dylan the silent treatment right back. This would go on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://psychcentral.com/lib/2012/easy-steps-to-reconnect-a-guide-for-emotionally-avoidant-dads/</link>
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