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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"Toxic Masculinity" As neuroscience has shown, our human brains start life with a great degree of plasticity. They are designed to learn from the environment and from people and influences...
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