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The Psychology of Love Bombing

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Karyl Mcbride Ph.d

Healing After Disasters

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Elaine Miller-Karas Msw

Creating Hope Through Future Selves

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Robyn Fivush Ph.d

The Best Way to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)

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Mark S. Gold M.d

Escaping the Yes Trap: The Power of No

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Robert Puff Ph.d

Stop Stereotyping Your Partner

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Michael Karson Ph.d

Master Your Mind and Energy

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Ryan C. Warner Ph.d

Barriers to Authenticity

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Tiani Perkins Ph.d

Suicide Assessment in Private Practice

Suicide Assessment in Private Practice

A framework to guide suicide assessment in private practice.

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Gillian Murphy Ph.d

Narrate Your Way to a More Meaningful Life

Narrate Your Way to a More Meaningful Life

Storytelling, meaning, and personal goals.

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Hal Mcdonald Ph.d

5 Lessons From Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

5 Lessons From Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Five things dialectical behavioral therapy taught me as a therapist and person.

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Jennifer Gerlach Lcsw

Attention Shoppers! What You Need to Know About Advertising

Attention Shoppers! What You Need to Know About Advertising

There's an increasing focus on attention in consumer decision-making.

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Alain Samson Ph.d

Breaking Up With a Beloved Friend

Breaking Up With a Beloved Friend

Personal Perspective: A friendship breakup story with a message of hope.

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Diane N Solomon Ph.d

Self-Awareness: An Antidote to the Rat Race

Self-Awareness: An Antidote to the Rat Race

A fast-paced life may leave you depleted and disconnected.

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Chelom E. Leavitt

There Is a Good Chance You Have "Havana Syndrome"

There Is a Good Chance You Have

A new intelligence assessment finds a foreign actor "highly unlikely."

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Robert Bartholomew Ph.d

How to Be a Better Husband

How to Be a Better Husband

Flip the marriage script.

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Ben Bernstein Ph.d

3 Warning Signs You’re Drowning in Toxic Positivity

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

Cultivating Attention: The Heart of Therapeutic Transformation

Cultivating Attention: The Heart of Therapeutic Transformation

Mindfulness, ethical attention, and the path to growth.

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Finn Janning Ph.d

How To Move On From the Breakup That Blindsided You

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John Kim Lmft

Valuable “Old Lady” Lessons Children Need to Know

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Susan Newman Ph.d

Consulting the Subconscious in Everyday Life

Consulting the Subconscious in Everyday Life

The subconscious can be an invaluable resource.

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Ran D. Anbar M.d

How to Stay Grounded in a Chaotic World

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Sara Eckel

Is Your Conflict Avoidance Emotionally Intelligent or Narcissistic?

Is Your Conflict Avoidance Emotionally Intelligent or Narcissistic?

Evaluate your conflict avoidance and determine if it's healthy or detrimental.

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Erin Leonard Ph.d

The Power of Art in Mental Health

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Jason Shimiaie M.d

Nurture Good Microbes to Get Rid of Your Stress

Nurture Good Microbes to Get Rid of Your Stress

How a psychobiotic diet help us to fight stress and anxiety.

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Hamid Zand Ph.d

The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming

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Laura Roklicer

The Polyamorous Perfect Storm

The Polyamorous Perfect Storm

An interaction pattern that can spoil long-term multiple-partner relationships.

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Elisabeth A. Sheff Ph.d

Can You Recover From a Mental Illness?

Can You Recover From a Mental Illness?

A Personal Perspective: Mental illness recovery happens, and I'm living proof.

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Emily Grossman M.a

The Role Genetics Could Play in Addiction

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Andrea Rosenhaft Lcsw-R

What the U.S. Presidential Election Results Tell Us

What the U.S. Presidential Election Results Tell Us

We need to step out of our bubble and change the wallpaper of our daily life.

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Nilanjana Dasgupta Ph.d

Being and Nothingness: How I Overcame My Death Anxiety

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Larry Carlat

3 Ways "Balance Theory" Influences Conflict in Relationships

3 Ways

There are many ways to restore balance after a conflict. These 3 are among the most popular.

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Mark Travers Ph.d

Strategies to Become a More Desirable Mate

Strategies to Become a More Desirable Mate

Attractive partner qualities depend on gender and geography.

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Wendy L. Patrick

Should Parents Set Consequences for Misbehavior in Children?

Should Parents Set Consequences for Misbehavior in Children?

Should we set consequences for our children when they don't do what we want?

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Corinne Masur Psy.d

Do You Have Dating App Fatigue?

Do You Have Dating App Fatigue?

When swiping your heart out gets overwhelming.

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Duygu Balan Lpcc

Choosing Reflection in Times of Change

Choosing Reflection in Times of Change

Personal Perspective: An empty nest can be a healthy reset.

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Gina Frangello Ph.d

How National Narcissism Fuels Isolation

How National Narcissism Fuels Isolation

Social isolation can be an outcome of extreme national pride, say researchers.

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Kevin Bennett Ph.d

Neurofluidity: Playing With a Concept

Neurofluidity: Playing With a Concept

Neurofluidity: What if I don't feel neurotypical or neurodivergent?

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Grant Hilary Brenner Md

How Does Dark Leadership Affect Creativity?

How Does Dark Leadership Affect Creativity?

Charismatic or chaotic: Examining the influence of dark leaders.

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Hansika Kapoor Ph.d

A Life of Fulfillment: Three Stories, Three Perspectives

A Life of Fulfillment: Three Stories, Three Perspectives

Aligning your life stories can lead to greater well-being.

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Tony Daloisio Ph.d

Did TikTok Help to Destigmatize Mental Health and Therapy?

Did TikTok Help to Destigmatize Mental Health and Therapy?

Social media may have played a role in decreasing the stigma of mental illness.

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Kaytee Gillis

When Cats Play, They Mirror One Another's Feline Faces

When Cats Play, They Mirror One Another's Feline Faces

New research shows that cats are able to match their playmate’s faces.

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Marc Bekoff Ph.d

Crisis Stabilization Center and Medication Monitoring

Crisis Stabilization Center and Medication Monitoring

Crisis centers are authorized to monitor medication per legal mandates.

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Yvette Sheline Md

How to Protect Children During the Divorce Transition

How to Protect Children During the Divorce Transition

Child-centered solutions for healthier families during divorce.

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Carol R. Hughes

Should You Talk With Your Child About Death?

Should You Talk With Your Child About Death?

Speaking with a child about death is an inevitable part of parenting.

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Elena Lister

Is Your Amazing Idea Being Thought by Someone Else?

Is Your Amazing Idea Being Thought by Someone Else?

Simultaneous innovations suggest that we may create in parallel.

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Bernard D. Beitman M.d

Burnout Recovery: How to Recharge Without Guilt

Burnout Recovery: How to Recharge Without Guilt

Restore yourself and create a life that aligns with your values.

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Shannon Sauer-Zavala Ph.d

Dissociation and Your Experience of You

Dissociation and Your Experience of You

How healthy dissociation shapes a balanced sense of self.

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Jason Shimiaie M.d

A Proven Trick to Quiet Anxiety Quickly

A Proven Trick to Quiet Anxiety Quickly

How a small mindset shift can help you regain control, no matter your age.

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

How Mindfulness Can Heal

How Mindfulness Can Heal

Mindfulness: Moment-by-moment attention can offer many health benefits.

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Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.d

The Shadow of Cognitive Laziness in the Brilliance of LLMs

The Shadow of Cognitive Laziness in the Brilliance of LLMs

Cognitive offloading with AI boosts performance but may hinder deeper learning.

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John Nosta

When Someone You Care About Has a Problem They Do Not See

When Someone You Care About Has a Problem They Do Not See

Six tips when talking to someone you’re worried about.

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Robert Taibbi L.c.s.w

Kind Words, Weird Feels: The Psychology of Compliments

Kind Words, Weird Feels: The Psychology of Compliments

Why we resist kind words and simple strategies to accept them fully.

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Lindsey Godwin Ph.d

Communicating and Creating Resilience in Times of Adversity

Communicating and Creating Resilience in Times of Adversity

“We Will Rise Again”

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Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.d

Grounding Yourself Through a Moment of Wonder

Grounding Yourself Through a Moment of Wonder

How gazing at the sky works wonders for a frazzled mind.

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Val Walker Ms

New Year, New Luck: Why Enhancing Serendipity Is a Skill

New Year, New Luck: Why Enhancing Serendipity Is a Skill

If luck is a 2025 goal, create habits that invite serendipity into your life.

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Te Wu Dps

Pets as Friends? Absolutely!

Pets as Friends? Absolutely!

Pets teach us loyalty, patience, and the art of unconditional love.

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Kimberly Horn Ed.d

Navigating a Smooth Transition From Hospital to Home Care

Navigating a Smooth Transition From Hospital to Home Care

Having a strategy when you leave the hospital helps to ensure quality care.

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Bob Uslander M.d

For the Losing Side, an Election Can Be a Small Death

For the Losing Side, an Election Can Be a Small Death

Personal Perspective: The grief from a lost election should not be negated.

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David R Patterson Ph.d

Can an Organ Transplant Change Your Personality?

Can an Organ Transplant Change Your Personality?

An update on the science and stories of cellular memory.

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Mitchell B. Liester M.d

Reaching Peak Event Performance

Reaching Peak Event Performance

My collaboration with racing legend Rebecca Rusch.

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Jaimie L Lusk Psy.d

The Complex Relationship Between Dissociation and Narcissism

The Complex Relationship Between Dissociation and Narcissism

Dissociation and narcissism: How hidden selves can corrupt self-esteem.

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Jason Shimiaie M.d

A Surprising New Approach to Dealing With Manipulation

A Surprising New Approach to Dealing With Manipulation

Manipulation is not always an attempt to take advantage of you.

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Avrum Weiss

How to Challenge the Paralyzing Power of Self-Hatred

How to Challenge the Paralyzing Power of Self-Hatred

Personal Perspective: Change begins with self-acceptance and a positive focus.

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Margaret R Rutherford Ph.d

Casualties of the False Cause Fallacy in 2024

Casualties of the False Cause Fallacy in 2024

How a common heuristic led to a moral panic about immigration and smartphones.

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Daniel R. Stalder Ph.d

Truth Is a Vanishing Commodity

Truth Is a Vanishing Commodity

Lying and disinformation are corroding our reality.

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Geraldine K. Piorkowski Ph.d

New Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression

New Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression

The most effective treatments are not traditional antidepressant medications.

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Francis M. Mondimore M.d

Recognize and Respond to Negativity Before It Drags You Down

Recognize and Respond to Negativity Before It Drags You Down

Negative words are like poison—they corrode your mindset and steal your joy.

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

How to Improve Slow Processing Speed in the Classroom

How to Improve Slow Processing Speed in the Classroom

Accommodations for slow processing speed in the classroom.

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Randy Kulman Ph.d

To Cut Government Costs, Address Mental Illness

To Cut Government Costs, Address Mental Illness

Mental health problems are extremely costly. Reducing them can save billions.

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Bob Doppelt

A 3-Step Roadmap for Decreasing Anxiety

A 3-Step Roadmap for Decreasing Anxiety

Managing anxiety is about rewiring your brain and taking risks.

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Robert Taibbi L.c.s.w

What’s It Like to Have an Intense, Fussy, Alert Baby?

What’s It Like to Have an Intense, Fussy, Alert Baby?

What moms of "fussy" babies want you to know.

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Macall Gordon M.a

Rebelling Against the Tyranny of Busyness

Rebelling Against the Tyranny of Busyness

Personal Perspective: Getting off the wheel of perpetual doing

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Maggie Rowe

Exploring the Afterlife

Exploring the Afterlife

A scientific perspective on life beyond death.

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Marina Weiler

The 3 Things Your Adult Child Wishes You Knew But Won’t Say

The 3 Things Your Adult Child Wishes You Knew But Won’t Say

Three hidden struggles adult children face—and how to help without overstepping.

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Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.d

Psychological Effects of Losing a Home After Fire

Psychological Effects of Losing a Home After Fire

Tips to cope with what remains when all is lost in a fire.

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Deborah Serani Psy.d

3 Questions to Help You Recover After an Exhausting Workday

3 Questions to Help You Recover After an Exhausting Workday

Master the art of gentle, but targeted recovery from work with these tools.

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Alice Boyes Ph.d

This Meeting Could Have Been an Email

This Meeting Could Have Been an Email

Three ways to make meetings more enjoyable and meaningful.

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Clay Drinko

Easy Forms of Effective Anger Regulation

Easy Forms of Effective Anger Regulation

If you don’t automatically blame, deny, or avoid, anger regulation can be easy.

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Steven Stosny

Letting Go of Control: Finding Peace in Infertility Chaos

Letting Go of Control: Finding Peace in Infertility Chaos

How releasing control can help you rediscover hope, resilience, and peace.

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S. Fenella Das Gupta Ph.d

Couples Therapy for Mental and Physical Health Conditions

Couples Therapy for Mental and Physical Health Conditions

Partner-assisted interventions are the best treatment you haven't tried.

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Rachel Diamond Ph.d

Did You Move Cities or Countries for Your Ex-Husband?

Did You Move Cities or Countries for Your Ex-Husband?

Many women sacrifice their own career to be a supportive wife.

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Vikki Stark M.s.w

Relying on Your Willpower Is a Losing Proposition

Relying on Your Willpower Is a Losing Proposition

Although we admire willpower, real success comes from never having to use it.

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Nadav Klein Ph.d

Two Ways to Resolve Feelings of Dread About the Future

Two Ways to Resolve Feelings of Dread About the Future

Don’t let anticipatory anxiety rob you of victory over fear and anxiety.

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David A. Clark Ph.d

The Body Keeps the Score. Should We?

The Body Keeps the Score. Should We?

Cells of the body retain surprisingly complex information. Should we be worried?

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Nikolay Kukushkin D. Phil

Meditation Doesn’t Need to Be Easy or Calm to Be Beneficial

Meditation Doesn’t Need to Be Easy or Calm to Be Beneficial

Meditation is often a tough mental workout that builds strength over time.

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Rachel Goldsmith Turow Ph.d

The Death of Patience

The Death of Patience

How modern life destroyed our ability to wait.

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Eric Solomon Ph.d

Safeguarding Finances While Caring for Dementia Patients

Safeguarding Finances While Caring for Dementia Patients

Essential tips for financial well-being while caring for someone with dementia.

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James R Langabeer Ph.d

With Suicide, Studying How Can Be as Important as Why

With Suicide, Studying How Can Be as Important as Why

The choice of method is rarely random.

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John Bateson

Building a Rejection Resume

Building a Rejection Resume

Personal Perspective: Why I'm choosing to fail in 2025.

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Sophie Riegel

Breaking the Cycle of Generational Trauma

Breaking the Cycle of Generational Trauma

How generational growth can triumph over generational trauma.

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Jordan Grumet M.d

4 Things Men and Women Envy Most in Each Other

4 Things Men and Women Envy Most in Each Other

Masculinity and femininity offer different advantages to envy—and costs.

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Mark Travers Ph.d

Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Clinical Tools With AI

Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Clinical Tools With AI

AI is transforming the ECG by seeing the unseen.

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John Nosta

Healing Exercise for Validating and Releasing Trauma

Healing Exercise for Validating and Releasing Trauma

Writing a letter than never gets sent as a form of self-validation.

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Kaytee Gillis

Do You Hate ‘Sadderdays’? Coping With Winter Blues

Do You Hate ‘Sadderdays’? Coping With Winter Blues

There are ways to manage the lower mood caused by wintertime sadness.

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Sandra Wartski Psy.d

Is It Win-Win or Lose-Lose in Your Relationship?

Is It Win-Win or Lose-Lose in Your Relationship?

Scoring a point against your partner is like slapping your own hand.

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Josh Gressel Ph.d

Grieving in Community

Grieving in Community

Coping with the collective trauma of the LA wildfires

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Edy Nathan Ma

What Taylor Swift’s Lyrics Say About Alcohol and Emotions

What Taylor Swift’s Lyrics Say About Alcohol and Emotions

Reflecting on emotions and drinking habits during Dry January

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Adi Zuloff-Shani Ph.d

Why Big Innovation Doesn't—Can't—Work at Large Companies

Why Big Innovation Doesn't—Can't—Work at Large Companies

Organizations are like people. They care about survival, not succession.

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Jordan Birnbaum M.a

You Can’t Escape a Toxic Workplace—Even After Hours

You Can’t Escape a Toxic Workplace—Even After Hours

What "Severance" reveals about the illusion of work-life balance.

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Chamin Ajjan Lcsw