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Is multi-tasking even possible? There is no doubt that the stress of modern society is almost overwhelming. All the tools that have been developed to make our lives easier have...

Seeing mental illness differently If you look carefully, very carefully, at the enormous expansion of the mental health professions and the pharmaceutical industries "treating" chemically problems with thoughts and feelings,...

Whey do we call certain aberrant behavior, thoughts or feelings an illness? Almost every day, we see in the media a plea to take "mental illness" more seriously. While this...

The lives of women What If girls and women all over this planet were safe? And possibly even respected? I mean this in the simplest concrete sense-nothing fancy. If families...

Are we designed evolve or not? There is so much more that we do not see than we see. I mean the sighted and not the blind. I mean that...

How I learned behavior therapy As part of the first generation of women invited into doctoral programs, we had the advantage of seeing with “beginner’s eyes," as the Buddhists say,...

Can this therapist be saved? Many years ago, before we had invented feminist psychology and psychotherapy, I enrolled in a large Midwestern University’s Psychology Department to begin my study of...

The importance of the human thought process Since the introduction of the second wave of feminist psychology, almost 50 years ago now, a central issue has been the deconstruction and...

The big book Psychiatric Diagnosis as a Cultural Phenomenon Today I want to clarify for those who are not familiar with the underlying substrate shakily holding up the institution of...