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	<title>Mental Fitness</title>
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		<title>Radio Frontier and Mental Fitness launch innovative partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radio Frontier and Mental Fitness launch innovative partnership February 17th, 2012 Geneva, Switzerland Mental Fitness, one of the leading providers of innovative counselling and coaching services for the international community in Geneva and Radio Frontier, the premium local radio station, today announced a new partnership. “Living a healthy, balanced life is a primary goal most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Valentine’s day blues – the flip side of romance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isabel Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Isabel's Journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In every moaning wind I hear thee say sweet words of consolation… I live, I talk with thee wheree’er I stray” Stallworthy, 1973, pp. 361-362, Penguin book of love poetry &#160; &#160; Here we are approaching the 14th of February and for weeks now we have been “bombarded” with all kinds of St. Valentine reminders: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if we could see everything stemming from relationship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Couples Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David's Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relational Being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Constructionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[couples therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenneth gergen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The psychologist Kenneth Gergen faces us with an urgent and profound challenge: What if we could see everything as stemming from relationship? Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community,Kenneth J. Gergen:  http://amzn.to/w53Ror Kenneth Gergen’s book Relational Being is an extremely rewarding read and goes a long way to counter the superficiality of so much writing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC News &#8211; Brains may be wired for addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dependence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dopamine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article on addiction By James Gallagher, the Health and science reporter for the BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16854593 One fact is known today within the medical profession regarding substance abuse addiction – there is currently no cure. Roughly, one third of addicts achieve abstinence, one third go through recurring phases of relapse and the remaining one third die. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depression Literature &#8211; A Brief Evaluation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[books on depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of books that have been written about depression is absolutely vast. The number really worth reading is correspondingly small. Most of the writing in the area of depression is often restricted to the relatively inaccessible academic field. The following contributors and their works are well worth reading in my opinion and will provide a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Smail talks about depression, psychotherapy and social power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clinical psychologist David Smail has long maintained that hardly any of the &#8216;symptoms&#8217; of psychological distress, depression included, may correctly be seen as medical matters. Smail reminds us that life can be very brutal to people and that it is important to remember that people don’t have some fatal flaw in themselves – people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for clues to the origins of depression</title>
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		<comments>http://mentalfitness.ch/looking-for-clues-to-the-origins-of-depression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC World Service Geoff Watts meets researchers looking for clues to the origins of depression as a way of finding new solutions to treating it. In the first of two programmes Geoff talks to the father of evolutionary medicine, Randolph Nesse and asks why hasn&#8217;t natural selection made us less vulnerable to psychological diseases? Could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want this story to die with you?</title>
		<link>http://mentalfitness.ch/do-you-want-this-story-to-die-with-you/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=do-you-want-this-story-to-die-with-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David's Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psyvhotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social constructionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent article by Dr Tom Strong about the experiences of a therapist and client as they collaborated in developing a therapeutic focus and plan of action in a single ninety minute session. http://www.davidlawson.ch/dyingstory.pdf]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Suicide: Expecting the Unexpected</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suicide is a topic that has touched many of us in one way or other. As part of their annual initiative, please find below details for the FREE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 2012, organized by the Psychology &#38; Counseling Department at Webster University Geneva. RSVP: psych@webster.ch The Impact of Suicide: Expecting the Unexpected By Evelyn Gordon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is therapy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lawson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David's Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What is therapy?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The irreducible elements of psychotherapy are a therapist, a patient and a regular and reliable time and place. But given these it is not so easy for two people to meet”.  (R.D. Laing) Therapy is a space where people can have time to reflect on the situations they find themselves in and which have become, [...]]]></description>
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