Helpful Parenting Strategies for Your Bipolar Child
An excerpt from Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide For Individuals and Families.
Everybody’s Happy Now? Prozac and Happiness
An extract on Prozac, from Happiness by Daniel Nettle
What Does Your Credit Limit Say About You?
It’s a wonderful feeling. You apply for your first MasterCard, hoping to be accepted. Finally it arrives in the mail, and you feel like a million bucks. It’s shiny and new, and it comes with a letter that tells you your credit limit. In most cases, this happy event occurs when you are quite young.
Going Broke: Podcast
A podcast with Stuart Vyse author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can’t Hold On To Their Money.
A New Year, A New You?
Learning how to assert yourself.
Feeling Unreal: Trisha’s Experience
An excerpt from Feeling Unreal.
Lights, Camera, Action!
A look at the film Numb.
Snake Oil Science: The Use of Placebos in Research
An excerpt from Snake Oil Science.
Holiday Help
David Tolin helps us prepare for the holidays
An Introduction to Manic-Depressive Illness
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Second Edition by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison chronicles the medical treatment of manic and depressive episodes, strategies for preventing future episodes, and psychotherapeutic issues common in this illness. In the excerpt below the authors introduce their second edition.
When Doctors Become Patients: Researching One’s Own Disease
An excerpt from Robert Klitzman’s When Doctors Become Patients.
The Elephant in the Room: Fear and Embarrassment
An excerpt from The Elephant in the Room.
Grant Writing: Things That You Can Do To Learn Scholarship
An excerpt from The Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Science Grants.
The Personality Survey: Results
Daniel Nettle takes a look at the personality survery results.
On AIDS Psychiatry
An excerpt from Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry by Jimmie Holland, MD.
How To Approach the AIDS Pandemic
Mary Ann Cohen helps us understand the AIDS pandemic.