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		<title>Adolescent Enthusiasm: It Can&#8217;t Be Beat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Frankie, twenty-one, female, senior in college is elated today. She is doing well at school. She enjoys her friends. She is eating and sleeping well and by her report she has &#8220;watched it with the alcohol.&#8221; By contrast, a week ago, Frankie felt her life was in the &#8220;dumper&#8221;. She hated school. She hated her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2999&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescence: The Dawn of Reproduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adolescence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Moses Laufer says that the key to understanding adolescence is to have a deep appreciation for the ability to make a human being, the ability to reproduce. This dawning creates anxiety and hope which shapes the adolescent mind, he claims. Willow, age twenty-four, has never had a serious relationship and she cannot figure out why. Mr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2995&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of Good Feeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Wendy and Jo, both age fifty, have been good friends for twenty years. They met when they worked together, but they both separated from that employer nineteen years ago. Still, they remained good friends. They were both married when they met. Now, Jo is remarried. Wendy is single and dating on and off. Wendy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2992&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror Neurons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marello Dapretto PhD http://faculty.bri.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel%5fid=46838 spoke today about how mirror neurons are abnormal in those with ASD-autism spectrum disorder. It was one of those lectures where I felt like I already knew this, and so I was not learning anything, but at the same time, she was demonstrating with pretty fMRI pictures that what I/we have suspected for years, is finally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2981&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Adolescence: A Lesson Of Compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stability of self-esteem is the hallmark of the closure of adolescence. As self-esteem improves, compromise is possible. The adolescent can compromise on their ideals and begin to see all humans as flawed beings who are trying their best to succeed. The arrogance often recedes such that the emerging adult develops a more sanguine approach to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2978&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marina Abramovic: Artist or Psychotherapist?</title>
		<link>http://shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/marina-abramovic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marina Abramovic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87 a sixty-four year old performing artist, sat for three months at the Museum of Modern Art in an exhibit she called &#8220;The Artist is Present&#8221; which has been made into an independent film of the same title http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2073029/ . People lined up for hours to sit in her presence, without words. Some cried. Some felt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2973&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shame: The Hallmark of Early Adolescence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas and Barbara Schave proposed that early adolescence, ages eleven to fourteen is a distinct developmental stage, marked by shame as the main disruptive affect, which can be further differentiated into affects of dishonor, ridicule, humiliation, mortification, chagrin, embarrassment or disgust. Reading their paper made me think of Lela, fifty-two, who did not follow-up with her primary care physician [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2970&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miscarried Adolescence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[P Pubescence is an act of nature. Adolescence is an act of man. It is only in the last century that &#8220;children&#8221; are given a time to mature into adulthood. That is, they are given an opportunity to &#8220;find themselves&#8221; or have &#8220;identity formation&#8221; as Erik Erikson would say. This is a time where the emerging adult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2965&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Freud and Adolescence: Continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Can someone remember their adolescence and report that to their therapist/analyst? That is the question that Anna Freud poses in her 1958 paper entitled &#8220;Adolescence&#8221;. There is a well-known amnesia for early childhood, likely because the hippocampus has not fully formed, and as such, narrative, or linear memory is not possible. The amnesia in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2963&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adolescence: Anna Freud Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Thinking about adolescence from a psychoanalytic point of view, brings us to Sigmund&#8217;s Freud&#8217;s paper on the &#8220;Three Essays on Sexuality.&#8221;http://shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/three-essays-on-the-theory-of-sexuality-freud-1905-revisited/. Essentially, infantile sexuality which is focused on the erotogenic zones (oral, anal and phallic) become transferred to new sexual aims, meaning that in adolescence, the emerging adult begins to focus on &#8220;objects&#8221; or love interests [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11480771&amp;post=2959&amp;subd=shirahvollmermd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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