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July 31, 2010

CBT gains more attention in the blogging world

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by Joye C. Anestis Dr. Judith Beck has written two articles about CBT that have been published on the Huffington Post. The first is a nice, concise description about what exactly CBT is, and the second answers some of the...

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May 26, 2010

NAMI Medical Director Honored With APA Patient Advocacy Award; Appears In CNN Health And Huffington Post Columns

Ken Duckworth, M.D., medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), has been honored with the Patient Advocacy Award of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) at the organization's 2010 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Dr...

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June 25, 2009

Dr. Susan Albers: Protest Against Eating Contests (The Huffington Post)

Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest: over 30,000 watched the event live; 1.5 million watched on TV; 100,000 people downloaded the clip from YouTube. What kind of example do competitive eating contests set?

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June 24, 2009

Linda Buzzell: The Greening of Psychotherapy (The Huffington Post)

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If therapists really considered what humans are doing to themselves and the rest of nature they'd have to admit that our behavior is pretty homicidal, fratricidal, suicidal and even ecocidal.

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June 23, 2009

Deepak Chopra: What Comes Next After Sin? (The Huffington Post)

Improvement is a simple, natural impulse -- everyone wants to see a better life for his family and society. But is it an improvement to deny women education and health care?

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June 9, 2009

Alfred W. McCoy: Confronting the CIA’s Mind Maze (The Huffington Post)

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In retrospect, it may become more apparent that the real aberration of the Bush years lay not in torture policies per se, but in the president's order that the CIA should operate its own torture prisons.

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June 5, 2009

Dr. Jon LaPook: Sex Addiction: Is it Really an Addiction? (The Huffington Post)

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Some researchers hypothesize that sexual addiction, substance abuse, and gambling share neurochemical changes in the brain--underlying problems with brain wiring and nerve transmitters.

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June 3, 2009

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Take the 12 Steps and Sit Down! (The Huffington Post)

In my former work as a clinical director of a drug and alcohol treatment program in a county jail and in my current outpatient work...

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May 19, 2009

Carol Smaldino: A Note on George Carlin about Steroids and Sports from a Practical Idealist (The Huffington Post)

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Battle and competition have become not only endemic to the sports of our times but to how we see the world and how we teach our children.

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