Archive for February, 2010

Military families look forward to being together after a long deployment with many mixed emotions. Each family member will have different expectations. Every family situation is different. But, it is important to remember the needs and feelings of the returning family member, the adult at home and the children. via Coming Home: Adjustments For... »

That result, seemingly a disaster, was exactly what his doctors had hoped for. They had deliberately withdrawn Jonathan’s antirejection medicine because he no longer needed the transplant. His own liver had — as planned — regenerated. via Liver Transplants That Do Their Job, Then Fade Away – NYTimes.com. »

The difference between how you see yourself and how others see you is not just a matter of egocentrism. Like Kirsten, we all have blind spots. We change our self-conception when we see ourselves through others’ eyes. Part of the discrepancy arises because the outsider’s perspective affords information you yourself miss—like the fact that... »

also ended up saving Belbin from a problem that has long plagued figure skaters: disordered eating via New Muscles and Pounds Fuel Tanith Belbin’s Ice Dancing – NYTimes.com. »

“The term dependence is misleading, because people confuse it with addiction, when in fact the tolerance and withdrawal patients experience are very normal responses to prescribed medications that affect the central nervous system,” said Charles O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the APA's DSM Substance-Related Disorders Work Group via DSM-V Draft Includes Major Changes to... »

The power of the reunion fantasy is not to be underestimated, says Neuman, observing that some children cling to the belief that their parents will get back together even after one parent has remarried. via Dating After Divorce: What it Means for Kids – FamilyEducation.com. »

Some critics of AA have claimed that the organizations emphasis on powerlessness against alcohol use and the need to work on character defects cultivates a pessimistic world view, but this via AA Attendance Cuts Drinking and Depression, Study Finds. »

“Anything you put in that book, any little change you make, has huge implications not only for psychiatry but for pharmaceutical marketing, research, for the legal system, for who’s considered to be normal or not, for who’s considered disabled,” via Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind – NYTimes.com. »

There is failing in the mental health provider community that in my opinion does more disservice to the clients than most anything else. This error comes when good doctors and therapists start... »

Older women who did an hour or two of strength training exercises each week had improved cognitive function a year later, scoring higher on tests of the brain processes responsible for planning and executing tasks, a new study has found. via Vital Signs – Strength Training Aids Mental Acuity in Women, Study Finds –... »