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Is Passive Suicidal Ideation Really Passive?

05/12/2025
An article by Robert I Simon, M.D. in Current Psychiatry, Vol 13, No 3, March...
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Revisiting Grief

05/12/2025
I have previously blogged about grief and wondered if our ability to reach a level...
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Grief Revisited

05/12/2025
I have continued to wonder about why grief is often so crippling and difficult to...
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How Big a Problem is Drinking [alcohol] for University and College Students?

05/12/2025
A recent JAMA[2014;311(12):1218-1224] study by Kypros Kypri, Ph.D. et al that used an internet based...
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Home is…where the Kitchen is?

05/12/2025
Recently I was speaking with Curtis Duffy about his career as a chef.  We talked...
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Why Our Doctor’s Need to Treat Each of Us as Unique Human Beings

05/12/2025
The simple response to that statement is because we are unique. Even identical twins are...
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Neuroanatomical Correlates of Religious or Spiritul Beliefs Associated With Less Risk for Major Depression

05/12/2025
A recent article by L. Miller, PhD et al in JAMA Psyhiatry [2014;71(2):128135] reported on...
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What Makes Us Blessed?

05/12/2025
Recently I was reading a poem by Mary Oliver and I felt moved by her...
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Sympathy Versus Empathy

05/12/2025
I was listening to someone talk about how they respond 'sympathetically" to customers and as...
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Modern Day Prophets

05/12/2025
Recently I was watching a replay on public television of "Fifty Years of Peter, Paul...
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