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		<title>Am I Bad And/Or Did I Have Bad Parents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;Outer security is thus purchased at the price of inner security,&#8221; so says Ronald Fairbairn about a child who protects his parents, defends them, at the expense of his self-esteem and intuition. In other words, when one senses that one&#8217;s parents are malicious, then one can protect them, and discard one&#8217;s sense of right [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4226&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Psychotherapy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.apsa.org/ Check out the animated video on the home page of APSA (link above), which I think is a great explanation of why psychotherapy is so important to build quality of life, in ways that medication management is severely limited. With the movement of psychiatry away from psychotherapy, we are limiting ourselves to a limited [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4216&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hedda Bolgar PhD: A Life Well Lived!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedda Bolgar 1909-2013 (via http://psychoanalyticpost.com) Click Here to Read:  A Centenarian’s Retrospective on Psychoanalysis - An Interview with Hedda Bolgar Interviewed by Michael J. Diamond in Diamond, M. J. and Christian, C. (Eds., 2011) The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action. Dear LAISPS Colleagues, Dr.… My colleague, Hedda Bolgar PhD, practicing psychoanalyst for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4193&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychiatrists Don&#8217;t Care About DSM 5?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinion/sunday/why-the-fuss-over-the-dsm-5.html?emc=eta1 &#160; Sally Satel MD, writes her opinion about the upcoming release of DSM 5. Apparently former President Bill Clinton will announce the release this coming weekend in San Francisco. The book has been fourteen years in the making, and with all due respect to Dr. Satel, I think psychiatrists care a lot about this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4188&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting Frustration: New Yorker Caption Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;I take futility to a new level.&#8221; Filed under: Cartoons, Parenting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4186&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UCLA: Game Changer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-0510-usc-ucla-brain-research-20130510,0,6976660.story &#160; Coping with change, particularly at UCLA, is an issue dear to my heart. UCLA changed my life, time and time again. College at UCLA was a straight shot. It was not tough to get in; not like today. I did not need high grades or SAT scores to enter this prestigious institution, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4183&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Suicide Question Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a nearly 30% increase in the suicide rate among adults 35 to 64, with the most significant increase in those 50 and older. Why the suicide rate is climbing in this age group is a question without a simple answer.&#8221; &#160; http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/opinion/gebbia-suicide-rate/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn &#160; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4177&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Medicine Lose The Narrative?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vollmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gene Beresin MD, Harvard Medical School faculty, wants to bring back the narrative to medical education. He made the point yesterday that coherent narratives help both patients understand themselves, and medical trainees understand their field. Narratives, he argued, creates attachment, and attachment creates security and comfort-crucial elements of a healing process. I am sorry, Dr. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4172&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are Middle Aged Folks Exiting By Choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/health/suicide-rate-rises-sharply-in-us.html?adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1367947995-fLB3U1rPSyYHkxZQ7I3rmA &#160; &#8220;The most pronounced increases were seen among men in their 50s, a group in which suicide rates jumped by nearly 50 percent, to about 30 per 100,000. For women, the largest increase was seen in those ages 60 to 64, among whom rates increased by nearly 60 percent, to 7.0 per 100,000.&#8221; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shirahvollmermd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11480771&#038;post=4168&#038;subd=shirahvollmermd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NIMH and DSM 5: Divorce!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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