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7 Reasons Crying Is Good for You

divinecaroline.com | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Relationships, Crying, Psychology, Germs, Wellness, Dehydration, Toxins, Stress, Emotions, Grief, Health, Tears, Clarity, Bacteria, Anxiety, Hydration, Sadness, Spirituality, Living News

Tears are just one of many miracles we taken them for granted every day. Here are seven ways tears heal us physiologically, psychologically, and spiri...

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A Deeper Look at Procrastination: Which Type Are you?

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Arousal, Srini Pillay, Being in the Moment, Immersion, Srinivasan Pillay, Procrastination, Indecision, Avoidance, Psychology, Action, The Balanced Life, Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

Is all procrastination the same and does it always serve the same goal? How does your personality fit with your own personal art of procrastination?

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What Spirituality Has To Do With The Health Care Debate

Paul DeBell | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Psychology, Faith, Health Care, Spirituality, Living News
Paul DeBell

Spirituality should be approached rationally, not solely through inspiration, emotion and blind faith. It's time to bring it into the 21st Century, and for irrationality that seeps into other crucial debates to be stymied.

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Integrating the Best Ideas from Left and Right

Linda Buzzell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Left, Politics, Psychotherapy, Marriage Counseling, Economy, Right, Psychology, Health Care, Ecotherapy, Politics News
Linda Buzzell

As a psychotherapist I've done my share of counseling squabbling couples and have learned to looking for common ground. Lately I've begun to apply this method to politics, with some fascinating results.

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Sleep May Enhance Memories

ABC News | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Dreams, Cognitive Science, Dreaming, Memorization, Insomnia, Memory, Sleep Study, Psychology, Trouble Sleeping, Fatigue, Sleep Disorder, Exhaustion, Sleep, Living News

For time-starved Americans, few ideas are more appealing than that of learning while sleeping. Why simply doze for eight hours when you can be learnin...

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Jung's Journal Provides Insight In To Dreams

Psychology Today | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Jung, Dreams, Dreaming, Freud, Analysis, Insomnia, Sleep Study, Psychology, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Fatigue, Interpretation, Exhaustion, Sleep, Living News

Jung describes visions and voyages into the desert, dreams and his frustration at an inability to interpret them....

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Do Dreams Teach Us About Ourselves?

Psychology Today | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Dream Analysis, Therapy, Dreams, Meaning, Insomnia, Sleep Study, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Fatigue, Sleep Disorder, Exhaustion, Sleep, Living News

This is for the dream researchers and so-called psychotherapists who are telling us that there is no psychological meaning to dreams, and that psychod...

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Is There a Fort Hood-New Haven Connection?

Aimee Liu | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Yale University, Veterans PTSD, New Haven-Connecticut, Fort Hood, Major Hasan, Psychology, Fort Hood Shootings, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Media News
Aimee Liu

Could it be that there is something about the steady exposure to stories of the horror of war that twists the psyche?

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FACE IT: We All Have Our Uh-Oh Moments

Michele Willens | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Self Esteem, Aging, Middle Age, Relationships, Uh Oh, Face It, Body Image, Psychology, Michele Willens, Living News
Michele Willens

Many women come to their doctors for other symptoms, but eventually focus on how they feel about the role appearance has or had in their lives. Therapists call this important step the "uh oh moment."

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Crazy or Crafty?

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Timothy McVeigh, Clint Eastwood, General Mcchrystal, Afghanistan, Fort Hood, Khalid Mohammed, Guantanamo, Jimi-Hendrix, Gun Control, Psychology, Nidal Hasan, Obama, Fox News, Politics News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

The idealistic notion that the United States is not in perpetual conflict with Arabs and Islam, argued by President Obama in Cairo but belied by history, has been dealt a serious setback by Fort Hood.

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Is My Baby Angry?

parenting.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Raising Children, Psychiatry, Child Development, Psychology, Anger, Parenting, Babies, Baby, Children, Living News

Your 4-month-old looks amazingly like that always-furious boss you once had, but what is she really feeling?...

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Sleep Deprivation Affects Decision Making

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Decisions, Rest, Decision-Making, Insomnia, Psychology, Sleep Deprivation, Fatigue, Sleep Disorders, Organization, Exhaustion, Productivity, Sleep, Living News

Sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, University of Texas at Austin resear...

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AA: The Magic Of Bill Wilson

Jeff Witzeman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Recovery, Depression, 12 Steps, Twelve Steps, Ego, Addiction, Bill Wilson, Psychology, Aa, Withdrawal, Addiction & Recovery, Carl Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, Faith, Spirituality, Living News
Jeff Witzeman

Many know Bill Wilson as the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, but few realize his brilliance as it relates to healing the human condition, alcoholic or not.

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Fort Hood: A Harbinger of Things to Come?

Bryant Welch | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fort Hood, Military Shootings, The Psychology of Optimism, Nidal Malik Hasan, Military Mental Health, Psychology, Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology, Ptsd, Torture, Politics News
Bryant Welch

If we can identify the real problem that caused the tragedy at Ford Hood we can possibly prevent such episodes in the future. Our troops have been through enough.

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Pundit Contest Would Have Gone Down Better with a Spoonful of Psychology

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Psychological Research, Msm, Opinion, America’s Next Great Pundit, Psychology, Media, Social Influence, Winners, Critiques, Contest, Bias, Mythology, Reporters, Washington Post, Authority, Blogging, Media News
Bella DePaulo

Once upon a time there were well-worn paths to the top of the press pile. America's Next Great Pundit Contest, however, is based on the premise that well-informed voices could come from just about anywhere.

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Palin-Bachmann Syndrome™

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Shannyn Moore Alaska, Carrie Prejean, Prejean, Carrie Prejean Larry King, Shannyn Moore, Psychology, Michelle Malkin, Larry King LIve, Shannyn Moore Palin, Bachmann, Palin, Diva, Sarah Palin Diva, Michelle Bachmann, Miss California Gay Marriage, Celebrity-Meltdowns, Political Psychology, Carrie Prejean Sex Tape, Larry King, Michele Bachmann, Palin-Bachmann Syndrome, Sarah Palin, Miss California, Carrie-Prejean-Lawsuit, Celebrity, Miss California Carrie Prejean, Media News
Matt Osborne

I have decided to coin a phrase: Palin-Bachmann Syndrome™, defined as the psychological imbalance produced by a toxic mix of right-wing identity politics and diva training.

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How to Live on $0 a Day: Assuaging Rage, One Prick at a Time

Lesley Stern | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Bush, Citi, Insurance Companies, Justice, Hank Paulson, John Boehner, Real Housewives, Washington, Economy, Ben Bernake, Bailouts, Larry Summers, Psychology, Balloon Boy Dad, Humor, John Edward, Sarah Palin, Self-Help, Dick Cheney, Comedy, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Comcast, AT&T, Dr. Phil, Ken Lewis, Bill Kristol, Joe Jackson, Satire, Rupert Murdoch, Financial Crisis, Aetna, Jamie Dimond, Bernie Madoff, Rage, Lloyd Blankfein, Netanyahu, Depression, Chase, Mental Health, Rush Limbaugh, Carrie Prejean, Bin Laden, Recession, Advice, Jim Cramer, Vikram Pandit, Anger, Michele Bachmann, Wall Street, Tim Geithner, Glenn Beck, Joe Lieberman, Kim Zolciak, Shadegg, Ahmadinajad, Crooks and Liars, Disney, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

If you're quivering with rage just thinking about Wall Street, it's time to take action. I've discovered a way to achieve a semblance of inner peace without therapists, tranquilizers or weapons.

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Bipolar Disorder: How Mood Mapping Helped

cnn.com | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Mood Mapping, Mental Illness, Stress, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Health, Bipolar, Psychology, Mood, Living News

My bipolar disorder came out of the blue. No one in my family had mental health problems and it was several years before I could accept my diagnosis. ...

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News
David A. Love

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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Deaths at Fort Hood

Louise Farr | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq, Military Training, Psychology, Major Nidal Hasan, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
Louise Farr

The military is a world of its own, and its psychologists and psychiatrists are doing nothing less than attempting to upend an entrenched culture.

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Dianne Schuler: When Denial Costs Lives

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Psychology, Addiction & Recovery, Mental Health, Codependency, Dianne Schuler, Addiction & Recovery, Parenting, Living News
Dr. Tian Dayton

Denial is a dangerous thing, it can leave families shattered and broken, make perfectly good lives sail off track and in the case of Dianne Schuler, it can be the direct cause of eight deaths.

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The Virus Behind Fort Hood Shootings

Wael Nawara | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Fanatic Virus, Religious Extremism, U. S. Armed Forces, War on Terror, Psychology, Identity Crisis, Fort Hood Shootings, Compassion Fatigue, Rage, Politics News
Wael Nawara

After 9/11 and the launching of "The War on Terror," which reportedly he opposed, Mjr. Hasan may have begun to develop an identity crisis.

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Recovery For Introverts

Dr. Andrew Lange | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Recovery, Health, Kurt Cobain, Health Care Reform, Psychology, Rainier Maria Rilke, Introverts Anonymous, Adam Sandler, Wellness, C.G.Jung, Relationships, Happiness, Living News
Dr. Andrew Lange

We often think of introversion in the negative sense. However, introversion produces the results similar to finely cooked meal. A meal that has been carefully planned.

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Balanced Life -- Act the Way You Want To Feel

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Emotions, Philosophy, The Balanced Life, William James, Pragmatism, Psychology, Autonomy, Self-Regulation, Happiness, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act.

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Why Hasan Did It: Are Shrinks Really Crazy?

Dr. Robert Epstein | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Psychiatry, Ft Hood Shooting, Psychology, Shrinks, Crazy Shrinks, Hasan, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Home News
Dr. Robert Epstein

The tragedy at Ft. Hood reminded me of an extensive investigative piece I wrote for Psychology Today a few years ago. I'm reprinting it below. The w...

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