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Knowledge v. Pain
Read more: Knowledge v. PainWebMD: Attitude, Knowledge Can Relieve Back Pain. “For most patients, psychological factors as well as beliefs, attitudes, and health literacy will also come into play,” he says. “We can tell patients to stay active, for example, but if they don’t believe exercise will help or if they fear activity will make their condition worse, they aren’t going…
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CBT for Insomnia
Read more: CBT for InsomniaCBT for insomnia (CBT-I) quickly outlined in an NYT interview. Simple and straightforward enough to invite DIY CBT-I–do it yourself: Self-help books offering CBT-I are also available. Two that I really like are“The Insomnia Answer,” by Paul Glovinsky and Art Spielman, and “Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep,” by Colleen E. Carney and Rachel Manber.
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More Free CBT in L.A.
Read more: More Free CBT in L.A.This Sunday, July 11th, 2-6pm, at SCCC. From the Free CBT Clinic’s Facebook page: WHAT’S THE CATCH? There is none. This is a free service of The Southern California Counseling Center to the community for anyone who is interested in finding out what therapy is like or specifically what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is all about.…
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Breakup Predictor
Read more: Breakup PredictorA study finds a new way t o predict whether or not a couple is going to stay together–word matching. The researchers found that volunteers who found it easy to associate their partner with bad things and difficult to associate the partner with good things were more likely to separate over the next year.
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Extinction Burst
Read more: Extinction BurstA new post at a new favorite, You Are Not So Smart, about behaviorism, B.F. Skinner, and the extinction burst. The post includes this pigeon video, embedded here for those in a video-only mood: