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		<title>Dr. Gabor Maté: &#8220;When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Democracy Now! Febuary 15, 2010 The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption—that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Gabor Maté: ADHD, Bullying, and the Destruction of American Childhood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Democracy Now! November 24, 2010 A spike in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental disorders has fueled an unprecedented reliance on pharmaceutical medications to treat children, with long-term effects that remain unknown. We speak with Canadian physician and best-selling author, Dr. Gabor Maté. He argues that these responses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Six-Session Program On Handling Job-Loss Stress</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unemployed? Need help with succeeding in your job search? Join us for a 6 week free online job search support program. Being out of work can trigger a cascade of stressors that correlates with anxiety, down moods, and painful conflicts, thus making sticking to your recovery goals more challenging.  With the holidays approaching, SMART Recovery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, Darkness: Discovering Our Values by Confronting Our Fears</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steven Hayes Originally published by Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. Sep/Oct 2007 I keep a supply of Chinese finger traps in my office to show to patients. When you push your fingers into each end of these straw tubes and then try to remove them, the tube diameter shrinks and grabs the digits firmly. The more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Can Answer Moral Questions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the February 2010 Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference, Sam Harris questioned why good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. Sam Harris argues that science can &#8212; and should &#8212; be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life. I agree [...]]]></description>
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