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The Mental Health Crisis That Wasn't
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| Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005 |
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A lesson from 9/11 is that therapists must find a balance between letting people know help is available and suggesting that they need help when they do not.
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Defining Down Mental Illness
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| Posted: Monday, August 15, 2005 |
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Being human is not a condition in need of a cure.
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Therapy Nation: Really, We're OK
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| Posted: Monday, June 20, 2005 |
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Recent years have seen a flood of books and articles pushing the notion that Americans are emotionally damaged. Please.
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Enough Already with Kid Gloves
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| Posted: Wednesday, June 1, 2005 |
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Children today can handle failure, tug of war, and even red ink on homework assignments. In fact, they would be better off if adults would simply back off.
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Cruel Compassion
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| Posted: Sunday, May 1, 2005 |
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The authors of a new book lament the rise of a feel-good culture that encourages emotional self-absorption--at the expense of individual responsibility. Sidebar by Steve Salerno.
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Why Can't They "Just Get Along"?
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| Posted: Monday, May 2, 2005 |
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When College Republicans rained on the celebrations of V-Day by inaugurating Penis Day and staging a satire called The Penis Monologues, the official reaction was horror.
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In Praise of Stoicism
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| Posted: Monday, April 25, 2005 |
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An interview with resident scholars Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, authors of One Nation under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance.
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Where Were You on 1/14?
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| Posted: Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
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Indignation over Harvard president Lawrence Summers's comments regarding possible differences between men and women has exposed the lack of intellectual debate in academia.
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I'm Okay, You're Okay
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| Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
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It is human nature to sometimes feel sad, frustrated, angry, resentful, or insecure. But human nature is not a pathology in need of a cure.
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Who Stole Harvard?
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| Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
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Such "virtues" as being sensitive and protective of everyone's self-esteem now count for more in an academic leader than integrity, intellectual vision, or a commitment to free inquiry.
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