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ADHD and Substance Use Disorder: Key Challenges in Treatment

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Mountainside Treatment Center

What Happens When AI Does the Writing?

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Corinne Masur Psy.d

When Racism Is Hidden in Plain Sight

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Monnica T Williams Ph.d

Why Is Getting Started So Difficult With ADHD?

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Liz Nissim Ph.d

The Algorithm Can't Love You Back

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Lacey Johnson Mmft

Alarm Fatigue and Health Care Workers' Mental Health

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Mia Barnes

The Uncomfortable Truth About Ego Defense Mechanisms

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Eric Haseltine Ph.d

The Fan Fiction Dilemma

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Roger Kreuz Ph.d

The Drift of Randomness? Your Brain May Need Routine

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Rodney Luster Ph.d

What Truly Matters More Than the Capacity to Love?

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Anthony Silard Ph.d

AI Is the New Blank Screen

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Mark Oconnell Lcsw-R

I Wish Our Dog Lizzie Would Stay

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Rita Lussier

Climate Change Isn’t Just Affecting the Weather

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Daniel Fryer M.sc

The Case for Being the Office Gossip

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Wes Adams And Tamara Myles

How Psychedelics Shape the Experience of Catastrophic Events

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Mark S. Gold M.d

Experiencing Climate Distress on Top of Brain Injury

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Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Helpful or Harmful? The Cost of AI's New Learning Tools

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Timothy Cook M.ed

Dating After Divorce: Timing Is Everything

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Lisa Zeiderman Esq

Zero Suicides Is the Goal

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John Bateson

The Mistranslation That Hid Plato's Psychology

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Chester H. Sunde

When Diagnosing Toxic Relationships Becomes Toxic

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Michele Weiner-Davis Lcsw

The Cognitive Corridor

The Cognitive Corridor

Personal Perspective: Where human and machine thinking touch for an instant.

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John Nosta

When Kids Can't Take "No" for an Answer

When Kids Can't Take

How not to get drawn into a power struggle with a persistent little person

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Claire Lerner Lcsw-C

3 Life Moments That Reveal Family Dysfunction

3 Life Moments That Reveal Family Dysfunction

Key life transitions clarify relationships and boundaries in dysfunctional families.

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Sarah Epstein Lmft

4 Practices to Reduce Holiday Stress

4 Practices to Reduce Holiday Stress

4 habits we can rely on in times of stress.

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Heather Lench Ph.d

Unexpected Creative Tool Use By a Wild Wolf to Catch Crabs

Unexpected Creative Tool Use By a Wild Wolf to Catch Crabs

New filmed research shows a wolf pulling a rope to get food.

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Marc Bekoff Ph.d

The Two Psychoanalyses

Contrasting visions of the mind and treatment.

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Mark L. Ruffalo M.s.w

When Gratitude Is Weaponized: 5 Questions for Discernment

Why forced gratitude can backfire, silence suffering, and keep people stuck.

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Kimberly Key Ph.d

Low Mood and Negative Thoughts Amplify Pain in The Brain

Low Mood and Negative Thoughts Amplify Pain in The Brain

Therapies that reduce negative thinking reduce suffering from pain.

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Shana Johnson M.d

The 7 Core Vulnerabilities in Adoption

What everyone should know about adoption’s complex emotional threads

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Jeanette Yoffe M.a

Why Role Models Matter

Why Role Models Matter

How your children—and you—benefit from having positive role models.

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Vanessa Lobue Ph.d

When an Older Loved One Is Hospitalized: What Families Should Know

When an Older Loved One Is Hospitalized: What Families Should Know

Hospitals can be overwhelming environments, especially for older adults.

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Nancy L. Kriseman

Your Leadership Tracking Compass

Your Leadership Tracking Compass

Six essential competencies for leadership tracking excellence.

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Janet M Shlaes Ph.d

Breakups Hurt for Both Partners Involved

Breakups Hurt for Both Partners Involved

Cold comfort in rejection hell, if you’ve been dumped.

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Lucia F. Osullivan Ph.d

The Gardener's Mind: Cultivating the Life You Want

The Gardener's Mind: Cultivating the Life You Want

Cultivating a fruitful mind requires constant, active effort and attention.

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Robert Puff Ph.d

Supporting the 18 Million Kids Who Have Long Been Invisible

Supporting the 18 Million Kids Who Have Long Been Invisible

Learning to see and support youth whose parents have a mental illness.

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Michelle D. Sherman Ph.d

Italian Women Taught Me to Lose My Shame and Love My Body

Italian women feel ease with their bodies, this transformed my view of aging.

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Susan Biali M.d

Are You Suffering from Promotion Grief?

Are You Suffering from Promotion Grief?

Feeling conflicted about a promotion can be a sign of healthy psychological adjustments.

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Martin Dubin

From FOMO to FOFO: The Expanding Alphabet of Fears

From FOMO to FOFO: The Expanding Alphabet of Fears

Why naming our fears is the first step to overcoming them.

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Theo Tsaousides Ph.d

From "What's Wrong With Them?" to "What Happened to Them?"

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A humble habit for dealing with difficult personalities.

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Kelly G. Manix Ph.d

What Are Dreams Made Of?

What Are Dreams Made Of?

How sensory experiences shape your dreams and nightmares.

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Barbara Blatchley Ph.d

2 Habit Changes That Could Make You Happier

2 Habit Changes That Could Make You Happier

Convenience, as helpful as it can be, may be robbing us of our happiness.

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Mark Travers Ph.d

Start Talking No for an Answer, Particularly From AI

How ChatGPT's yes-manship could be ruining your life.

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T. Alexander Puutio Ph.d

When Your Adult Child Lashes Out: Here's Why and What to Do

When Your Adult Child Lashes Out: Here's Why and What to Do

Understand the hurt beneath your adult child's anger so you can break the cycle.

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

Compassion for People Living in Hoarding or Squalid Conditions

Compassion for People Living in Hoarding or Squalid Conditions

From clutter to crisis: when possessions become a prison.

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Shirley M. Mueller M.d

A Passion for Self-Compassion

A Passion for Self-Compassion

What is self-compassion and how do we put it to work for us?

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Diane N Solomon Ph.d

You Are Being Judged, But That's OK

You Are Being Judged, But That's OK

A perspective that may help you reconsider your fear of judgment.

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Anna Braverman Psy.d

How Judicial Appearance and Behavior Affects Justice

How Judicial Appearance and Behavior Affects Justice

The psychology of fairness, from perception to reality.

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Wendy L. Patrick

Digital Literacy Starts at Home

Digital Literacy Starts at Home

Parents and caregivers can lead the charge in fostering digital literacy among youth.

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Amanda L. Giordano Ph.d

The ChatGPT Effect on Anxiety

The ChatGPT Effect on Anxiety

How AI and smartphones are causing us to fear uncertainty and be more anxious.

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Bonnie Zucker Ph.d