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Traffic and Weather

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:05:30 PDT

I’m taking a 7th inning stretch, moseying into my colleague’s office to say hi. She’s aggravated because patients aren’t showing up. “Do I charge them?” she asks. “For sure! Charge ‘em!” I’m...

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Termination

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:12:41 PDT

I think-- gold watches, retirement parties. Cake. Or the divorce party. Gonna' wash that man right out of my hair (a real oldie, you're not expected to know it). The due a person gets for...

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Top Ten Excuses: Governor Sanford

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:26:32 PDT

No, I'm not finished with it. Last night I had the house to myself (the remote) so I settled down to a warm teev to see what the world has to say about Governor Sanford. What a nice looking guy,...

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Take me away: Gov. Sanford

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:10:29 PDT

So I feel pretty silly, not knowing or even suggesting to anyone that Governor Sanford was having an affair, wasn't hiking in the Appalachians as he led us to believe. The transcript of his...

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Friendship and Professional Boundaries

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:39:34 PDT

In the last post Porcini asked me a question in the comments section. You can go back to that to see how I answered her there. She wants to know how I handle it when I really like a patient. Don't...

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Chicago Gay Men's Chorus

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:18:07 PDT

Rushing to the office after spending too much time writing that last post, I caught NPR's special on this chorus. I checked 'em out right away, rushing so fast I go to work early. No matter your...

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Panic, Family Systems, and Psychoeducation

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:41:58 PDT

Sometimes it's easier not to blog at all than to try to explain systems in plain talk. But let's try anyway. I'll just go stream of consciousness, if you don't mind, and you guys put it together,...

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The D Word

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:32:57 PDT

Divorce I’ve been avoiding this post, primarily because I just know that if certain patients run across it on the web, they’re going to say, THAT’S ME! OMG! SHE WROTE ABOUT ME AND PUBLISHED IT ON...

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Drug Seeking

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:02:43 PDT

As much as I'd love to give you that post on drug-seeking here, I can't. But it's over at TheSecondRoad.Org. There's no sister post here on ENT like there should be, because right now I'm...

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Housekeeping

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:06:00 PDT

One of my readers (Brandice) complains: I'd really like to read your blog, but a truncated RSS feed (making me go to your site from Google Reader to read your posts) is basically like saying, "I will...

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Friendship Interruptus

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:39:30 PDT

It sound silly, but isn't as silly as it sounds. Friendship is sensitive, and it's those interruptions, past, present, and future, that can make it so ridiculously hard. A can't live with it, can't...

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E B White and Twitter

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:22:58 PDT

What some of us have learned from Twitter is that we can communicate better with fewer words. E. B. White said it first in The Elements of Style (1918) with that famous line: Omit needless...

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Same Time Next Year

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:39:52 PDT

THE ANTS: We keep a pretty close watch on the little guys is the truth, don't let them get too comfortable. It's finally springtime in Chicago, the temps are high in the sixties. So they like to...

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Better to Lie

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:43:12 PDT

FD tells me he's tired and has go to bed by eleven because he has to get up at three to go to the office to finish some charts. A quality review insurance representative is going to review his...

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You Only Have One Mother

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:03:26 PDT

That's a direct quote from mine, "You only have one mother." She says this as we're driving out to the suburbs to a family party. (I'm driving, FD and my parents are telling me how). "You only...

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How Some Women View Sports

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:45:52 PDT

My latest insight is probably not new to sports families. Women watch sports differently than men. At least some of us do. For good reasons, probably. For one thing, many of us don't watch sports...

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Rubberband

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:01:13 PDT

November 2007 I wrote about the casual relationship, otherwise known as friends with benefits. Thanks to a recent comment, we're getting back to it. To do this I am recommending you also watch a...

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Multi-tasking

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:59:50 PDT

Winifred Gallgher tells us in Rapt, a new book out at Amazon, that we can only focus on one task at a time, no matter what we think. Multi-taskers aren't multi-tasking very well. Try to do two...

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Lashes

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:55:49 PDT

That's Blue. He's my main fish. For him I bought a 55 gallon tank. A boy's gotta' swim. And this is Minor Blue, not the kind of fish people talk about, you know, a quiet player, but he does...

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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:49:09 PDT

What a terrific role, wonderful actress. Heroic. One of the more sung heroes now, thanks to CBS and Hallmark. And these are the Desperate Housewives, who really don't belong on the same page as...

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Upshot on EMDR

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:03:53 PDT

Let's slow it down, my friends. Before you go out and spend a lot of money on a therapist to treat your PTSD with EMDR, or embark on learning to how to use EMDR in your practices, wait until we...

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EMDR

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:09:02 PDT

Last one 'til after Passover. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing I used to think a more apt description would have been, Rapid Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, but R-E-M-D-R...

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The Scariest Monster of All

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:22:02 PDT

In today's WSJ Steve Stecklow's front page story is about a couple who unwittingly, or maybe wittingly, named their mini-golf franchise Monster Mini Golf. I don't know about you, but as soon as I...

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Love's Gonna' Get You Down

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:11:28 PDT

That's Chicago. I'm home. FD and I joke that we don't get vacations. For people who seem to be hopping on planes fairly regularly, we still don't take real vacations. There's none of this hanging...

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Missed the link

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:03:05 PDT

Did the last post on the fly, and now, reading it from my phone, here at the gate waiting to fly stand-by, I don't see the ColdPlay video I wrote about. You might need to see it to optimally...

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