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Getting Therapy When There’s No Money

I can’t help but mention this article in The New York Times about how to get mental health care when you have no insurance or for some reason your have minimal coverage for mental health concerns with your current health insurance (which should change come January 1, 2010 when the federal m...

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World of Psychology — 6 hours ago

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Surviving the Suicide of Someone You Love

My brother’s childhood best friend committed suicide. I was 16 years old at the time, Mark (not his real name) was 21. Mark’s parents were close friends of my parents; we played together as little kids, he was my first crush. We drifted apart as we grew up. Mark was a Kennedy-esque f...

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World of Psychology — 7 hours ago

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Woman Loses Sick-Leave Benefits for Depression Thanks to Facebook Pics

Quebec woman Nathalie Blanchard poses on the beach in a Facebook photograph that convinced her insurance company that she was no longer depressed.Can you really determine someone’s mental state by looking at a photograph? Manulife, a Canadian-based financial services company, apparently th...

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World of Psychology — 21 hours ago

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2009 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy Recommendations

Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this symposium every year is to tackle a particular issue in mental health policy, population or care. This year focused, fittingly enough, on health car...

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World of Psychology — Yesterday

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Year in Review: Your Picks

It’s that time of the year again, when we pull together our top picks for mental health and psychology stories in the news in the past year. There’s no magic to our choices, we’re just looking for stories that you believe had the biggest positive or negative impact in this area....

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World of Psychology — Yesterday

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Two New Blogs, Always Learning and The Y Factor

I’m pleased to announce the introduction of two new blogs here in the Psych Central family. The first is from Leigh Pretnar Cousins, MS called Always Learning. Leigh is a private tutor and is studying in educational psychology. Although her blog will focus on the topic of educational psych...

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