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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

My first column was about David Foster Wallace, whose ‘This is Water’ commencement address at Kenyon College (2005) had become a touchstone ( see transcript here , and audio recording here ). To paraphrase Wallace’s last words to the Kenyon College Class of 2005: We will need way more than luck.

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SBM Member William T. Riley Appointed NIH OBSSR Director

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)

Riley has served as acting director of the OBSSR since May 2014, and has been with the NIH since 2005. His research interests include behavioral assessment, psychosocial health risk factors, tobacco use/cessation, and the application of technology to preventive health behaviors and chronic disease management.

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Child Mind Institute Chief Science Officer Dr. Michael Milham Named to 2024 List of Highly Cited Researchers™ for 11th Consecutive Year

Child Mind Intitute

With over 250 articles published since 2005, he has been recognized on the Highly Cited Researchers list every year since 2014. Analysts at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) have recognized 6,636 Highly Cited Researchers in 2024 from more than 1,200 institutions in 59 nations and regions.

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The Power of Journaling: What Science Says About the Benefits for Mental Health and Well-Being

Child Mind Intitute

Other research shows the benefits of journaling include: Improved emotional and physical health: Regular journaling enhances mood and emotional awareness and reduces stress levels (Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005). Give it a try and see how journaling can transform your mental and emotional well-being. Your mind and body will thank you for it.

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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

Mad in America

Years later, in 2005, in the last annotated edition of Women and Madness , the author insisted on the persistence of this bias, which even today, 50 years later, seems to remain unchanged. It was written by Professor Sandra Caponi and expert by experience Virginia Carril. 3 These questions are: “What am I missing out on because of fear?

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures. Psychiatry is undeterred by its repeated technological failures.