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		<title>Dealing with toxic family members.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often hear how important family is to our health and well-being, especially when we are ill or depressed. However, what do you do when you find that a family member only brings heartache and stress into your life? I have had many patients complain bitterly about a hyper-critical parent, a narcissistic or self-centered sister, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does your stuff mean to you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The incredibly astute comedian, George Carlin said: &#8220;A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.&#8221; &#8220;Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?&#8221; What&#8217;s with our obsession with our possessions (stuff)? After all, stuff is just stuff, right? Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture and male sexual dysfunction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to fully understand male sexual dysfunction, it is necessary to understand the cultural and social context in which it occurs. A young man growing up in a liberal, secular home where sex is openly discussed and egalitarian, nonsexist views of women are expressed, will have a very different attitude about sexuality, masculinity, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteering is good for your psyche</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People have often asked me why I spend so much time volunteering with various community service organizations.  There are many different answers to this question.  The simplest is that it makes me feel good about myself. The more complex answer is that it is a form of payback for me.  If it weren&#8217;t for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping up in a crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was amazed and impressed by how many people ran toward the bomb sites during the Boston Marathon! I felt the same sort of amazement during the 9-11 attacks in New York. Not only did first responders put their  lives at risk running into the Ground Zero area to care for the injured, but ordinary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The empathy connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Empathy is the glue that bonds people in an intimate relationship. When there is an empathic connection, people feel understood, they feel seen. Empathy is not the only way for people to bond, but it is necessary for an intimate connection. Bonding over a common activity or common experience may foster a connection just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I never met a cow that wished it was a giraffe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human beings are an odd lot. We are easily embarrassed, we are seldom content, we always want more of something, we often feel that someone else is better than ourselves, and we often wish we were someone else. I doubt that a cow ever wished it were a giraffe. I cannot imagine an elephant wishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helplessness is a state of mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember reading the classic work of Victor Frankl, MD, the psychiatrist who, after spending six years as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps, wrote Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning. In it, Dr. Frankl comments that many of the prisoners fell into a state of despair upon realizing that may never be free again. Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening the Internal Terrain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a graduate student in clinical psychology in the 1960s, psychologists were practicing along the lines of the medical model where the focus was on the treatment of diseases. During that period, the renown psychiatrist Dr. Karl Menninger, founder of the world famous Menninger&#8217;s Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, published a groundbreaking book entitled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panic Attacks: A Holistic Approach (Part 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is Part 3 of a three part series on Panic Attacks. For Parts 1 &#38; 2 please refer to these links: Panic Attacks (Part 1) and Panic Attacks (Part 2)] Treatment approach A holistic approach to treatment includes an examination of all of these areas suggesting modifications and/or changes that will empower the individual [...]]]></description>
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