Tag: psychology
member name: Duane B.
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October 15, 2006 12:59 PM EDT --
Any reports of child abuse or neglect are upsetting and disturbing, but I find the recent reports of alleged deliberate starvation of children to be inexplicable and reprehensible . . .
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July 28, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
The latest issue of Babytalk magazine, a free publication focusing on mothers of infants, has dared to break the Great American Breast Taboo. On the cover of a recent issue is a picture of . . .
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August 01, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
I was counseling a forty something that was having problems with the women in his life. He was twice divorced and raising a son on his own. He was an entertainer who traveled the world . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
Some years ago when my family was living in Europe, managing the financial operations of an American corporation, we were in the US for annual home leave and were invited to have dinner with . . .
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October 20, 2006 10:58 AM EDT --
Fifty years before Charles Darwin published his famous landmark book on the theory of evolution, a Frenchman, Jean-Baptiste Larmarck published his own theory, one that was based on the idea . . .
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June 13, 2007 12:39 PM EDT --
An article appearing in the latest issue of NEWSWEEK reveals a secret that I, as a retired therapist, was well aware of: sometimes psychotherapy is more than just ineffective, sometimes . . .
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October 01, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
The first large scale study of the use of medications for ADHD support a genetic link to the disorder. The parents of children taking medication for ADHD were nines times more likely to be taking . . .
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April 15, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
You’re a Methodist; I’m a Methodist, or Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, or any of the other Christian denominations. We share the same theology, beliefs and values, and yet in too . . .
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August 03, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
The only thing that is constant in life is change. We see, hear and feel the constant change in our modern lives every day. Not only does change affect our personal lives, but, . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:12 PM EST --
William Saletan, writing in Slate, criticizes a study that appeared in Nature Neuroscience that concludes that “conservatives” are less intelligent, . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life shows that almost 40% of Americans have changed their religion since their childhood, with a growing number dropping any religious . . .
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May 23, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
In WWI they called it "shell shocked", in WWII it was called "combat fatigue. In Vietnam it was "the thousand yard stare", but it is as old as human warfare. . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently received an unsolicited email from a person I don't know that is a member of a national organization I belong too. It contained some of the most virulent anti-Semitic . . .
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July 08, 2006 06:44 PM EDT --
For many years, being interested in environmental issues and the preservation of wild animal populations, I have watched many documentaries about the capture, examination and tagging of wild animals. One . . .
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October 09, 2006 08:23 AM EDT --
A horrible crime like the shootings at a one-room Amish schoolhouse always raises questions about the motives and mental state of the perpetrator. This case, that left five young girls and the . . .
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June 03, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
The current issue of Discover magazine has a very interesting article on the effect of a common soil bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae, which appears to have the ability to reduce the effects . . .
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March 08, 2007 09:01 AM EST --
Anyone following the political news in the last few years knows what a stir Ann Coulter has caused with her outspoken, bombastic and controversial comments and accusations verbally and in print. . . .
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August 07, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Two studies published in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry support the position that ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a real disease linked to a gene variant . . .
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August 22, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
In December 2007 I will reach my sixty-seventh birthday. I am a shade shorter than six feet tall and weigh 147 pounds stark naked. Although I had two surgeries and six months of chemo for . . .
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July 31, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
My first article on sexual hysteria, Breast Hysteria, outlined the American obsession with breasts and the revulsion, in some quarters, with the concept and images of a mother breast-feeding her infant. . . .
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