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3 Negative Thinking Patterns to Avoid—What to Do Instead

Rumination and mistrustful thinking won’t get you where you want to go. Posted August 29, 2017 by Melanie Greenberg Ph.D. How you think about the events and people in your life can either help you reframe things in more positive ways that help you cope or take you down a rabbit hole of negative thinking and feeling […]

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Who Am I, Who Are We?

By Onnie Rogers Ph.D. How do children and teens come to understand who they can become? Posted Nov 24, 2020 How we construct and understand who we are shapes how we interact with each other, how we parent our children, what we teach and how we educate them, and the kinds of laws and policies […]

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Top 10 Cool Psychological Research Findings

Top 10 Cool Psychological Research Findings What we know about people may surprise you. Posted Dec 20, 2017 In the world of behavioral science, where I live, researchers implement studies in an effort to better understand the nature of behavior. As a result of well-designed psychological research over the years, many novel findings with all kinds of […]

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The Neuroscience of Anorexia Reveals Why It’s So Hard to Treat

Most of the anorexia patients Dr. Joanna Steinglass sees in the inpatient eating-disorders unit at the New York State Psychiatric Institute have been to treatment before. While in the hospital or a residential treatment center, they generally gained weight and began to eat a wider variety of foods. But after they left, their old anorexic […]

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How to Choose a Therapist

Having taught many cohorts of psychologists and psychiatrists how to do psychotherapy, I am well-versed in a range of therapy models—and therefore do not impose them on my patients. Beware of therapists who are too identified with a particular therapy “brand.” They have already decided how to treat you before they have met you, let […]

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