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Licence -- Professional or Poetic

Professional "human health service providers" (doctors, psychologists, social workers etc) often need to be "licensed" by "Government bodies" (like "State-government" -- or in Australia and New Zealand, a "central",...

Looking for Website Coordinator

For the last few months I've been struggling. I've been disheartened at the lack of success I've had obtaining articles from authors, and lack of response from those making use of the audiovisual materials I've...

New Mindfulness Course -- NICABM

The United States group, the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine NICABM  [LINK] is soon to start a new series on Mindfulness, an essential element IMO/E in the development of...

Childhood stress, ongoing relationships, with implications for health

Referred to elsewhere, in several places, on my site are observations from a number of researchers into the longterm consequences of childhood interpersonal distress and later-age illness -- names to search would...

Childhood Neglect & Ongoing vulnerability

Marie-Eve Nadeau, of Rivière-des-Prairies Hospital, and colleagues from the University of Quebec, have recently produced some research looking at term sequelae of childhood neglect, published in the Journal of Child...

Update -- Social Cognition - Measurement and Improvement

As an update to my last post, I'd like to make available the article, by Ana Hernandez, I mentioned in my last post: Relationships between childhood maltreatment, parenting style, and borderline personality...

Social Cognition in Borderline Personality

In my last post I discussed some aspects of social cogntion that have recently been studied in relation to the impact of childhood abuse.  Today, I'd like to briefly discuss a recent review of Social Cognition in...

Me, myself, I -- our own worst, best, friend

Today, I've posted the second in the series from the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine series, Rick Hanson, on what is one of Dr Hanson's ongoing themes -- a variation on The...

Who Cares? Risks and Limits of SSRIs for Depression

Here, I'm re-posting something from Rob Purssey, Psychiatrist, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia  [LINK]: "Who Cares in Sweden" www.whocaresinsweden.com is the best filmed work ever created about SSRI's, and is...

Child Abuse: Effects of dissociation on treatment for PTSD

An important recent study by Marylene Cloitre and colleagues [LINK] has thrown light on three imporant questions: How successful is Narrative Therapy  (also called Narrative Story Telling NST) in dealing...