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The Sex Addiction Divide
Read more: The Sex Addiction DivideThe L.A. Times joins the Tiger Woods-triggered sex addiction journalism spree: Unlike compulsive gambling, which also is proposed for addition to the new DSM (to be called DSM-5), the proposed diagnosis — hypersexual disorder — stops short of categorizing the problem as an addiction, and for a reason. “If we are looking at a disorder, it’s…
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Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments
Read more: Top Ten Online Psychology ExperimentsFrom PsychCentral, a list of Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments. Click around, help science, maybe have fun. At any given time, hundreds of online psychology experiments are going on. They are a great, cost-efficient method to gather experimental data from the multitudes of people online. These experiments can be fun to try, but also provide…
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Dealing with Chronic Pain
Read more: Dealing with Chronic PainA new post at my PsychologyToday.com blog, Crisis Knocks–an interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist, regarding Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS): Anyone who’s ever had a headache or stomachache as the result of stress has experienced TMS. For most, the pain goes away within a day or two, but for some it becomes a chronic…
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Depression Good for You?…Maybe Not
Read more: Depression Good for You?…Maybe NotA vigorous response to the NYT’s Depression’s Upside article by Dr. Ronald Pies at PsychCentral: [W]e have the myth of depression as a “clarifying force,” or as an “adaptive response to affliction” — notions being advanced by a number of psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists. Thus, Lehrer quotes psychiatrist Andy Thomson as saying, “…even if you…
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Zone of Greatness: More Internet Dating Stats
Read more: Zone of Greatness: More Internet Dating StatsFor internet daters (and stats lovers), a series of new and old posts at the OkCupid.com blog: Interactive maps showing why men should be looking to date older women, among other things. Another entry looks at the data and comes up with Exactly What to Say in a First Message. Another looks at How Races and…