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Blog Entries by Michael Sigman from 01/2009

Time for a Mental Health New Deal

| Posted 01.02.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Economic Stimulus, Psychology, Mental Health, Psychoanalysis, Barack Obama, Economy, Tom Daschle, Healthy Living News

America's economic health is inextricably intertwined with its citizens' psychological well-being.

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What's Your Poison?

| Posted 01.12.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Spirituality, Financial Security, Baby Boomers, Buddha, Rick Perlstein, Economy, Recession Fears, Job Security, Economic Fears, Financial Crisis, Buddha Poisons, Nixonland, Recession, Healthy Living News

Economic greed and fear are two sides of the same coin. When things start getting better, will the preoccupation with money also abate? Or will fear simply be replaced by another cycle of greed?

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Working Miracles

| Posted 01.26.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Miracles, Village Voice Media, Annie Sullivan, Miracle Worker, Twain, Inauguration, LA Weekly, Helen Keller, Obama, Obama's Inauguration, Rush Limbaugh, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, David Horowitz, Mckinsey, Bill Kristol, Sean Hannity, William Kristol, Healthy Living News

My earliest memory of an inspiring title was The Miracle Worker, which I loved because that "miracle" suggested an astonishing achievement against impossible odds.

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Psychotic Reaction

| Posted 01.29.2009 | Healthy Living
Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Psychiatry, Neurotic, Obama, Cheney, Bush, George Bush, Crazy, Budget, Crazy Bosses, Colleagues, Healthy Living News

"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and...

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