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| Anxiety Disorders | |
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| I Am Not Afraid Barbara Grizzutti Harrison Psychological | |
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| Concept:panic disorder | |
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| A noted writer suffering from panic disorder tells of the many fears that limit her daily activities | |
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| A Fear of Snakes Raeann Dumont Psychological | |
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| Concept:specific phobia | |
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| A man develops a fear of snakes and is driven to ensure that none are near him | |
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| The Accident | |
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| That Didn't Happen | |
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| Psychological Concept:obsessive-compulsive disorder | |
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| Suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder | |
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| Dr. S. tells of the anxiety and embarrassment that come from often doubting his actions and having to constantly recheck them Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam Veterans | |
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| Psychological Concept:posttraumatic stress disorder | |
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| A veteran tells of the unrelenting nightmares, anger, isolation, and mistrust he continues to suffer since returning from combat in the Vietnam War | |
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| Dissociative Disorders | |
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| The Divided Woman | |
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| Psychological Concept:dissociative amnesia | |
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| Returning from a trip that she kept secret from her parents | |
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| A second-year pharmacy student suddenly forgets her entire life and begins psychotherapy | |
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| Hypnosis, and drug treatment to recover from dissociative amnesia | |
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| The Myth of Repressed Memory | |
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| Psychological Concept:repressed memory | |
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| A psychologist and expert in memory presents the views of those who support | |
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| Evidence obtained from repressed memory and of those who question such evidence | |
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| I Have Multiple Personality | |
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| Disorder Quiet Storm Psychological | |
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| Concept:dissociative identity disorder | |
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| Speaking of herself in first-person plural | |
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| A woman who was a victim of child abuse reflects on the anguish of dissociative identity disorder | |
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| Somatoform Disorders and Factitious Disorders | |
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| Phantom Illness Carla Cantor Psychological | |
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| Concept:hypochondriasis | |
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| Convinced that she has lupus | |
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| A life-threatening autoimmune disease | |
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| A young wife and mother tells how hypochondriasis puts her life on hold | |
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| The Broken Mirror | |
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| Psychological Concept:body dysmorphic disorder | |
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| An attractive, young woman obsessively worries that her normal | |
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| Attractive skin is not normal | |
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| So much so that she avoids social contact and seeks surgery for the imagined defect | |
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| Patient or Pretender | |
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| Psychological Concept:factitious disorder | |
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| Stunned by the breakup of her engagement | |
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| A young woman is so bereft that to get attention she convinces others that she has cancer | |
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| Mood Disorders Suffering From Depression | |
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| Psychological Concept:depression | |
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| A writer describes the tormenting effects of depression | |
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| The way in which the illness takes over her life, and the hope | |
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| That antidepressants such as Prozac offer | |
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| An Unquiet Mind | |
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| Psychological Concept:bipolar disorder | |
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| A clinical psychologist describes her experiences with bipolar disorder | |
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| An illness over which she has gained control and about which she is now a recognized expert | |
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| Suicide A Time to Listen: Preventing | |
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| Youth Suicide Patricia Hermes | |
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| Psychological Concept:preventing youth suicide | |
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| Concerned about the frequency of suicides among young people | |
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| A woman tells how listening and caring may prevent troubled youth from committing suicide | |
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| Sunshower | |
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| Psychological Concept:recovering from the suicide of a loved one | |
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| A courageous woman tells how she survived her husband's unexpected suicide when he was in his thirties and life was full of promise | |
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| Darkness Visible | |
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| Psychological Concept:deciding not to commit suicide | |
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| A Pulitzer prize-winning author was so overcome with depression that suicide seemed the only solution | |
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| In one startling moment, however, he had an experience that compelled him to change his mind | |
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| Psychological Factors and Medical Conditions | |
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| Is It Worth Dying For? | |
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| Psychological Concepts: heart attack, stress, type | |
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| A behavior After suffering a heart attack, a physician realizes that his type | |
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| A behavior and the stress he put himself under contributed to his illness | |
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| In Bed Joan Didion Psychological Concept:migraine headaches | |
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| A noted writer describes the tensions in her life that precipitate her migraine headaches | |
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| Days of | |
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| Psychological Concepts: AIDS, coping, social support | |
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| A tennis champion points to the social support and coping strategies | |
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| That sustained him when he discovered he had received a blood transfusion tainted with the AIDS virus | |
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| Thorns into Feathers: Coping with Chronic Illness | |
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| Psychological Concepts: chronic fatigue syndrome, stress, coping | |
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| A man explains how a change in lifestyle helps him adapt to chronic fatigue syndrome | |
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| Schizophrenia Welcome Silence | |
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| My Triumph Over | |
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| Psychological Concept:schizophrenia | |
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| A woman who made a remarkable recovery from schizophrenia | |
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| With therapy and medication describes the voices | |
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| She heard and the imaginary events that were part of her illness | |
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| Tell Me I'm Here | |
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| Psychological Concept:schizophrenia and the family | |
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| A South Australian woman describes the torment brought to her and her family | |
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| As a result of her son's schizophrenia | |
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| I Feel Cheated by Having | |
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| This Illness | |
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| Psychological Concept:schizophrenia | |
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| An African-American man tells of his battle with schizophrenia and of the treatment that is helping him | |
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| Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders | |
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| The Duke of Deception | |
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| Psychological Concept:antisocial personality disorder | |
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| A well-known writer painfully discovers that his father's behavior was frequently deceitful | |
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| Impulsive, irresponsible, or criminal | |
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| Girl, Interrupted | |
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| Psychological Concept:borderline personality disorder | |
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| A young woman describes how she was hospitalized for self-destructive | |
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| Behavior and diagnosed with borderline personality disorder | |
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| Losing Your Shirt | |
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| Psychological Concept:compulsive gambling | |
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| Two young men detail their addiction to pathological gambling | |
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| And describe the ways it destroyed trust and relationships | |
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| Substance-Related Disorders | |
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| My Descent into Alcoholism | |
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| Psychological Concept:alcohol dependence | |
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| An editor and columnist tells of the power alcohol had over her | |
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| Her refusal to recognize her addiction, and the damage it brought to her health | |
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| Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| Psychological Concept:recovery from alcohol dependence | |
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| A veteran reporter discusses how Alcoholics | |
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| Anonymous and the medication | |
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| Antabuse helped her overcome alcohol addiction | |
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| Dying to Be | |
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| Psychological Concept:steroid abuse | |
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| A high school student, determined to be a football star | |
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| Decides to take steroids and suffers severe physical and psychological changes | |
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| Cocaine: Helen's Story | |
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| Psychological Concept:cocaine dependence | |
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| A woman who has a seizure brought on by using cocaine describes | |