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Conference: Flourishing Through Meaning and Purpose

djbaxter — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:01:08 +0000

A summer conference entitled The Positive Psychology of Flourishing Through Meaning and Purpose will be held July 26-29, 2012, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is being hosted by the International Network on Personal Meaning. Who should attend? Students, scholars, mental health professionals and anyone who values Viktor Frankl, positive psychology, resilience, and eudaimonia is invited [...]

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Traumatic Memories

djbaxter — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:31:15 +0000

Traumatic memories in the brain are like an overstuffed closet. You slam the door and try to keep them all locked tightly inside but every time anything jars the door open a crack they start to spill out. In therapy, you are opening those doors a bit at a time. Then you deal with what [...]

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The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life

djbaxter — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:00:12 +0000

The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life Judith A. Belmont, MS, and Lora Shor, LSW Premier Publishing & Media; 1st edition (October 21, 2011) ISBN-10: 0982039891 ISBN-13: 978-0982039892 $16.75 Don’t get stuck in life’s holes! The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life is a book about resiliency. Using Swiss Cheese as a metaphor for life itself, you will [...]

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Life Over Cancer

djbaxter — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:53:27 +0000

Life Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment by Keith I. Block, M.D. Bantam, April 2009, 978-0-553801149 Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of patients who have lived [...]

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Curse of Tourette’s becomes a blessing in disguise

djbaxter — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:38:59 +0000

Horseheads, N.Y. Teen Finds New Purpose Through Illness ‘Curse’ of Tourette’s becomes a blessing in disguise August 7, 2011 HORSEHEADS, New York — Seventeen-year-old Cory Sweet wanted to die five years ago. His school report card, once full of the high 90s that made him proud, was in the tank. And his body would not [...]

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DBT Self-Help App for the iPhone or iPod

djbaxter — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:20:56 +0000

DBT Self-Help App for the iPhone or iPod DBT Self-help is a tool that helps you manage overwhelming emotions, break destructive impulsive behaviors, navigate relationships and cultivate mindfulness. It contains skill descriptions complete with rationale and practice tips that will enable you to develop and practice the needed skills. The skills are based upon the [...]

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Free app for Crohn’s and Colitis patients

djbaxter — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:45:49 +0000

Free app for Crohn’s, colitis patients CBC News July 25, 2011 Toronto’s SickKids creates myIBD to monitor bowel diseases The myIBD phone app helps patients track their food, stool and bathroom breaks. Teens and parents dealing with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis now have a mobile app that will help them manage their disease and [...]

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Metalhead gets disability pay for heavy-metal addiction

djbaxter — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:22:37 +0000

Metalhead gets disability pay for heavy-metal “addiction” by Adriana Barton, Globe and Mail Monday, July 25, 2011 Never mess with a man’s Metallica – let alone his Iron Maiden and AC/DC. In Sweden, a dishwasher has succeeded in having his heavy-metal habit declared an addiction requiring disability payments, reports The Local, a Swedish news site. [...]

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Blockheaded research, blockheaded conclusions

djbaxter — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:23:54 +0000

When you do simple-minded research, expect to draw simple-minded, blockheaded, and just plain wrong conclusions. What’s worse is the potential damage reports of such research can do to those with mental health conditions in need of treatment. Case in point… the following description of a McMaster research study from TriCity Psychology Blog: Anti-Depressants Raise Relapse [...]

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After years in a coma, DMOZ/ODP finally pronounced dead

djbaxter — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:10:20 +0000

Final Nail In The Google Directory Coffin by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land Jul 20, 2011 In 2008, Google removed directory links from Webmaster Tools and in December 2010, Google dropped the search box from the Google directory. Today, Google has completely removed the Google Directory as a Google service. Going to directory.google.com will show [...]

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