We live in societies where some people are richer than others - though the extent of wealth inequality varies greatly around the world.In general, it's sad but true that poor people suffer more diseases. Within a given country almost all physical and mental illnesses are more common amongst the poor, although this isn't always true between countries.So if a certain disease is more common in rich
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July 14, 2010
Autism And Wealth
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July 2, 2010
Communication and Emotional Expression (Part 2): Other People’s Words
"Don't you have any ideas of your own!" an exasperated person once said to my father - an admonishment that seemed particularly unfair. The fact was, my father had plenty of thoughts and ideas, but the challenge was how he communicated them. My father had a way of sharing his own thoughts via other peoples' words.My father's special interest was music, and to a lesser extent, movies. A walking
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February 1, 2010
Psychotherapy Brown Bag YouTube Channel Update
Greeting folks. I have posted two new videos on the PBB YouTube channel. On a high note, my film making skills improved to the extent that I now fit in the picture, but on the down side, I overshot the...
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January 16, 2010
Poor people smoke more
Social status is intimately linked with health-related risk factors. Scientists are determining to what extent smoking, physical inactivity, and obesity are associated with social status.
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December 8, 2009
How Other People’s Expectations Control Us
We quickly sense how others view us and play up to these expectations.A good exercise for learning about yourself is to think about how other people might view you in different ways. Consider how your family, your work colleagues or your partner think of you.Now here's an interesting question: to what extent do you play [...]» Check out Deepak Chopra's new stress reducing iPhone App - Stres
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October 25, 2009
Does infant video dependence cause autism?
New research has once again upped the ante on autism. A study published this October in the journal Pediatrics found that autism now occurs in more than one percent of children (1 in 100). In 1980, 1 in 10,000 children was diagnosed with autism. The autism rate has risen about 10 percent each year since.As to whether (and to what extent) this is due to an actually greater incidence or
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June 28, 2009
Why should government welfare mean less religion?
It looks like my paper in Journal of Religion and Society should be published any day now! I'll post a summary here when it is - this post is by way of a bit of background.Here's a big question: why are there more religious people in some countries than others? To some extent, that's easy to explain. Richer countries tend to have fewer religious people. But why, for example, is the USA so religio
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