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May Is Mental Health Awareness Month—Help Us Help Others!

Do you know one American in four will experience a serious mental-health issue in 2015? Speak out. Break the stigma. Please remember and reflect on this every day, especially during the month of May: Mental Health Awareness Month. Give generously to promote the research of The American Mental Health Foundation. We at AMHF rely exclusively on […]

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The American Mental Health Foundation Is on Facebook!

Please do follow The American Mental Health Foundation on Facebook. “Like” our mission and work!

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Psychology and Psychotherapy: Enablers of Bad Behavior? (Not!)

Does psychology undermine morality? The question is broad. The book on the subject is short. Pundit Mona Charen reviews it in National Review (April 20, 2015). She says, Yes. As a reflection of the research and outreach conducted by this foundation, since 1924, my different view follows…. Regarding Mona Charen’s review of Admirable Evasions: How Psychology […]

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When Your Spouse or Loved One May Be Struggling with Too Much Pornography: Some Facts

Facts: Pornography causes problems socially and individually; pornography cuts against Christian (and most religious) teaching; pornography is demeaning; pornography victimizes women or whoever is depicted. Pornography might properly be described as unfit for consumption…by anyone. Might the title of this blog be “When Your Wife Is a Pornography Addict?” or “When Your Husband Is a […]

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Jacqueline A. Lofaro Joins American Mental Health Foundation Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of AMHF is delighted to welcome Jacqueline A. Lofaro. She joined as a Director on April 21, 2015. Lofaro has been an advertising and communications executive for 25 years. Early assignments included advertising copy for McGraw-Hill as well as Holt Rinehart & Winston. She moved on to developing advertising-campaign concepts and copy […]

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Psychological Trauma and First Responders

It had been a bad week. Fighting fires is a war that never ends but this had been a bad week. Ladder 6 had been called to a motor-vehicle accident on Monday afternoon. In the passenger’s seat had been a young mother. On impact she was thrown through the windshield and was now impaled on […]

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“Like the Gay, ‘Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name,’ Depression Is Now Shouting!”

The title of this blog is in quotes since it derives from the second part of a series Dick Cavett published in the New York Times. Part 2 appeared on July 11, 2008. The link is highly recommended. Comments received on part 1, Cavett notes, approached 500 in number, an extraordinary volume of mail and […]

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AMHF Books Publishes Anatomy of Delusion by Dr. Henry Kellerman

The official publication date was yesterday! March 24. Anatomy of Delusion by Dr. Henry Kellerman is available in traditional-paperback as well as Kindle formats. In his new book, Kellerman both defines and discusses “Delusion” as a phenomenon that is simply not understood by theoretical and/or practicing clinicians. Dr. Kellerman is on the professional-advisory board of […]

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AMHF Exhibits at AAPCSW and ISPS Conferences

On March 12 to 15, AMHF and AMHF Books exhibited several of its titles at the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work Conference in Durham. The conference was co-sponsored by the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society. Turnout was impressive, and conferees were enthusiastic over the first-ever presentation at this event by AMHF. The foundation […]

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In Honor of Stefan de Schill on the 10th Anniversary of His Death

Director of Research of AMHF between 1948 and 2005, Dr. Stefan de Schill died February 9 ten years ago. That date was also Ash Wednesday. De Schill was one of the pioneers of group psychotherapy. He accepted the position of director of research offered by Hermann Broch, then chairman of this foundation while at Princeton, […]

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