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The Effectiveness of Psychodynamic Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorders: A Meta-Analysis | American Journal of Psychiatry

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To Make the World Better, Think Small – The New York Times

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Data sets on the web

More online data sources. http://www.apa.org/research/responsible/data-links.aspx http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/biblio/resources?collection%5B0%5D=INSTR&analysisMethod%5B0%5D=Crosstabulation http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/biblio/resources http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/index.jsp http://www.statsci.org/data/multiple.html http://www.statsci.org/data/first.html http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101123174706AAAWxA4

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Do you want to develop your professional voice?

The Write Site provides online support to help you develop your academic and professional writing skills.  Each module provides descriptions of common problems in academic and professional writing and strategies for addressing them. You will see samples of good writing … Continue reading

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How we want more and are unsatisfied when we get it.

Elevated Reward Response Linked to Weight Gain. This research suggests an explanation for why we want more and how we are unsatisfied when we get it. It suggests that anything we find rewarding or pleasurable, if pursued to excess , … Continue reading

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The Transformative Power of Emotional Understanding | Psychology Today

The Transformative Power of Emotional Understanding | Psychology Today. Early in the treatment, whenever the patient began to remember and describe the sexual abuse, or to recount analogously invasive experiences in her current life, she would display emotional reactions that … Continue reading

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The Art of Distraction vs. Attention Deficit Disorder

The Art of Distraction – NYTimes.com. It is said that distractions are too easy to come by now that most writers use computers, though it’s just as convenient to flee through the mind’s window into fantasy. In the end, a … Continue reading

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Ethical Issues in the Practice of Psychology

Visit the PA Psychological Association’s Ethics Education Station! Our goal is to promote ethics education in Pennsylvania, across the country, and around the world. We have individuals reading and using our content from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and … Continue reading

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U.S. to Tell Drug Makers to Disclose Payments to Doctor

Large numbers of doctors receive payments from drug and device companies every year — sometimes into the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars — in exchange for providing advice and giving lectures. Analyses by The New York Times and … Continue reading

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A biological perpective on the difficulties of weight loss

Anyone who has ever dieted knows that lost pounds often return, and most of us assume the reason is a lack of discipline or a failure of willpower. But Proietto suspected that there was more to it, and he decided … Continue reading

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