Teen Girls Displaying an Interesting Adaptation
In our culture at a time when very little is sacred, girls are making a personality adaptation that protects them. Our girls are getting crustier. Here is a conversation I couldn’t help but hear...
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Cameras In Classrooms? Bring It On!
The Case for Cameras in the ClassroomsAs an autism mom, I am painfully aware of the constant abuse stories involving school staff and children with disabilities. Not a week goes by where a disgusting...
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Top 50 Plato Quotes
I throw the apple at you, and if you are willing to love me, take it and share your girlhood with me; but if your thoughts are what I pray they are not, even then take it, and consider how short-lived...
View ArticleSurvival Tips for Women and Men
By: Dr. Gaby CoraGiven the popularity of my 2009 blog Do Mean Girls in School Become Mean Women at Work? and the comments, I thought it may help some of us bring some light to this very pervasive...
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Do Sexy Women Really Feel Good About Themselves?
Do Sexy Women Really Feel Good About Themselves? By Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. on October 16, 2012 in Fulfillment at Any Age Women and young girls are taught to embrace their sexuality, but recent...
View Article10 Things to Do When You Aren’t in a Relationship
For many, the most challenging times in life are when we are on our own and don’t want to be. The discomfort for many of us can be palpable; we feel it in our hearts and bones. Luckily, many things can...
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What Halloween Masks Tell Us About Our Fears
Obama and Romney Halloween Masks and the Zoo By Guy Winch, Ph.D. on October 16, 2012 in The Squeaky Wheel Halloween masks of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are flying off the shelves this year. Does...
View Article10 Things Happy People Do Differently
Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city. George BurnsHow happy are you and why? This is a question I spend a fair amount of time thinking about, not only as it applies to...
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Students Helping Students Toward Mental Health
How do we make brain health cool? I asked myself this question as I prepared to speak with the Hesburgh-Yusko scholars at the University of Notre Dame last week. I’ve been to enough college campuses to...
View ArticleTrait Examination OR Character Assassination?
Part of the problem we face in trying to get to the nitty-gritty of pathological love relationships is that 'how we do it' or 'what we call it' is judged so severely that it impairs sharing the...
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Web Blurs Boudaries of Public & Private Time
This blog curates the voices of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. Barbara L. Blum, PhD, submits this post:The communication between psychologists and...
View ArticleBite Me? That’s What TV and Movie Romances Do
Sleepless in Seattle: Is there anyone who hasn’t seen it, or at least know what it is all about? What about Titanic? Pretty Woman? Those kinds of movies turn into cultural touchstones – just about...
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Anthropomorphizing People
I skulked into the Brooklyn Borough Hall Subway station at 6:30 a.m., to make it to my office for a 7:15 patient, then 10 other sessions to follow. My morning commute was preceded by one of those...
View ArticleElections & the Stock Market's Head
You realize don't you that if Romney is elected, the stock market will go up. In fact, you probably "blame" this on those greedy bankers even though you may well benefit from it.It's really very...
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Love, Sex, Relationships and the Brain
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on...
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Aristotle on Friendship
After what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living. For without friends no one would...
View ArticleSo Many Medicare Plans, People Want to Stay Put!
Republicans and Democrats agree that Medicare is in trouble — that if its costs keep rising faster than inflation, we will face insurmountable federal budget deficits. They also agree that the problem...
View ArticleHow to Make a Corporation Happy
Given the boundless influence of money on the American political process (historically always present, but truly let loose only recently by the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision), and given...
View ArticleBinders upon Binders of Stolen Ideas
Co-written by Katherine Ullman."Binders full of women." We all know what Mitt Romney meant during last night's presidential debate when he discussed his "effort" to recruit more women during his tenure...
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Fat by Choice?
Earlier this month, a news anchor in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Jennifer Livingston, spent four minutes of precious air time responding to a man who accused her of being a bad role model as a public figure...
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