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Updating the Bible of Mental Health
One of the major stories in my slice of science for the past five years has been the updating of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Currently out is the DSM-IV-TR (text...
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What exactly is a mental disorder, anyway? – Part 1
Given my recent post on changes to the way a number of mental disorders are defined, I thought it might be useful to be a good scientist and give you an operationally definition of “mental disorder.”...
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What exactly is a mental disorder, anyway? – Part 2
This is the second in a three part series on the difficulties with defining “mental disorders.” In part one, we looked at a number of common ways to divide normal from abnormal behavior and found each...
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What exactly is a mental disorder, anyway? – Part 3
This is the final in a three part series on the difficulties with defining “mental disorders.” In part one, we looked at a number of common ways to divide normal from abnormal behavior and found each...
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Pseudoscience in the Aftermath of Trauma
As the tragedies over the past year (mass shootings, natural disasters, man-made disasters, and accidents) remind us,the majority of people will, at some point in their life, experience what is often...
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Therapist or medium? A look at “Induced After-Death Communication”
It should come as no surprise to my regular readers that I a) am a clinical psychologist and b) despise pseudoscientific nonsense. As such, when I come across woo in my field, I feel a special fire...
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New Books on Mental Health from Caleb Lack!
In exciting news, I just published two short texts on psychopathology. One is on anxiety disorders (such as phobias, OCD, panic attacks, and general anxiety), while the other focuses on mood disorders...
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Normal and Unexpected Behaviors after a Disaster
Supercell right before dropping a tornado on May 19, 2013 outside of Prague, OK Earlier today, Moore and south Oklahoma City were hit with an absolutely devastating tornado that appears as if it will...
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Secular Therapist Project reaches milestone, needs more therapists
Myself with Dr. Darrel Ray during the Skeptics of Oz conference in 2013 The Secular Therapist Project, which I have written about before, issued a press release today in celebration of a major...
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Lots of Guest Posts Upcoming!
As part of my ongoing quest to have my students do work that is meaningful and useful to the world, rather than just to them (or their degree plan), two of my courses this semester have assignments...
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From Mental Retardation to Intellectual Disability
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the graduate students in my Psychopathology course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to demonstrate mastery of the skill of...
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Myths & Misconceptions about Hoarding Disorder
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the graduate students in my Psychopathology course during Spring 2014. As part of their work for the course, each student had to demonstrate...
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Evidence-based Treatments for Tourette’s Syndrome
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the graduate students in my Psychopathology course during Spring 2014. As part of their work for the course, each student had to demonstrate...
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Exorcisms versus Psychotherapy
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the undergraduate and graduate students in my Science vs. Pseudoscience course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to...
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Pseudoscience in the Aftermath of Trauma
As the tragedies over the past year (mass shootings, natural disasters, man-made disasters, and accidents) remind us,the majority of people will, at some point in their life, experience what is often...
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Therapist or medium? A look at “Induced After-Death Communication”
It should come as no surprise to my regular readers that I a) am a clinical psychologist and b) despise pseudoscientific nonsense. As such, when I come across woo in my field, I feel a special fire...
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New Books on Mental Health from Caleb Lack!
In exciting news, I just published two short texts on psychopathology. One is on anxiety disorders (such as phobias, OCD, panic attacks, and general anxiety), while the other focuses on mood disorders...
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Normal and Unexpected Behaviors after a Disaster
Supercell right before dropping a tornado on May 19, 2013 outside of Prague, OK Earlier today, Moore and south Oklahoma City were hit with an absolutely devastating tornado that appears as if it will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Secular Therapist Project reaches milestone, needs more therapists
Myself with Dr. Darrel Ray during the Skeptics of Oz conference in 2013 The Secular Therapist Project, which I have written about before, issued a press release today in celebration of a major...
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Lots of Guest Posts Upcoming!
As part of my ongoing quest to have my students do work that is meaningful and useful to the world, rather than just to them (or their degree plan), two of my courses this semester have assignments...
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