Today  I upgraded the software which I use for my blog. So what you may say? Well this is no mean feat! Having used the great Thesis theme since its Beta origin I have been reluctant to move on… and now I have !So tweak and tweak ( developers will be with me here)… and there are still lots of anomalies!  So bear with me, we will slowly get there…. in the meantime I have to pay homage to the great Chris Pearson…… Awesome….. Dude!

Go get some Thesis

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The researchers concluded that the use of CISD involves issues of ethical principles and conduct for mental health professionals: “The influence of nonscience, junk science, and pseudoscience raises major ethical implications for mental health practice in its entirety, with professional psychology providing a particularly well-placed example of our concerns. 

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Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer

A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately 20 percent. The findings, published in Psychology and Health, were based on data drawn from participants who spanned numerous religious denominations. The research was conducted by Eliezer Schnall, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor of psychology at Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University, and co-authored by Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and population health at Einstein, as an ancillary study of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). The WHI is a national, long-term study aimed at addressing women’s health issues and funded by the National Institutes of Health. [click to continue…]

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People who have attempted suicide at some point in their lives are more likely to actually succeed in committing suicide at a later date. The risk is particularly high for people with serious psychiatric disorder, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet. [click to continue…]

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Many couples are finding what happens in the nation’s boardrooms also affects what happens – or doesn’t happen - in the bedroom.

Mary Jo Rapini, a psychotherapist with The Methodist Hospital in Houston, has been counseling more and more couples who find that anxiety over their economic situation threatens the long-range outlook of their lives together. [click to continue…]

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The Psychology of Déjà vu

November 18, 2008

All of us have experienced being in a new place and feeling certain that we have been there before. This mysterious feeling, commonly known as déjà vu, occurs when we feel that a new situation is familiar, even if there is evidence that the situation could not have occurred previously. [click to continue…]

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