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…(basically) one-hour films are in a time-honored, formulaic tradition. As comic-book writers fashioned superheroes with separate, mundane identities, so, a little closer to the workings of the Crime Doctor, Erle Stanley Gardner created Perry Mason—a crime-solving attorney. Fitting right in, the Crime Doctor series, which had its origins on the radio, features a psychiatrist who works the underworld. Little-watched or known today, these simple who…
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Evander Lomke
…Commission, WHO, PAHO, the World Bank, and other global organizations. Concomitant and prior to these positions, Dr. Harrison was Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; and a Fellow in Psychopharmacology at the New England Medical Center Hospital, Tufts University. Dr. Harrison commenced her career in rural South Ca…
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Evander Lomke
…Life of the Unborn Child. New York: Summit, 1981. 3. Flannery, R. B. Jr. Becoming Stress-Resistant through the Project SMART Program. Riverdale, New York: American Mental Health Foundation, 2012b. 4. Flannery, R. B. Jr. Preventing Youth Violence Before It Begins. Riverdale, New York: American Mental Health Foundation, 2022. * * * Raymond B. Flannery Jr., Ph.D., FACLP, a licensed clinical psychologist, is Associate Professor of Psychology (Part Tim…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…cine where she established a monthly newsletter that was respected by prize-winning physicians and public-health researchers and advocates alike. Jacqueline Lofaro and her husband, Nathan Liebowitz, Ph.D., relocated to Cold Spring, N.Y., to care for aging family members. They returned to New York City and nestled happily in Stuyvesant Town. She then became the Director of Communications for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York and lat…
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Evander Lomke
…ments Implications.” Psychiatric Quarterly, 2018. 4. Flannery, R. B. Jr. Becoming Stress-resistant through the Project SMART Program. Riverdale, New York: American Mental Health Foundation, 2012. 5. Flannery, R. B. Jr. The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP): Coping with the Psychological Aftermath of Violence. Riverdale, New York: American Mental Health Foundation, 2012. —————————————————————————————————————— Raymond B. Flannery Jr., Ph.D., FAC…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…ms that caused the first responders to be traumatized were the same injured-and-mutilated victims that they brought to her hospital for surgery. Yet she had similar symptoms: depression, impaired concentration, unfocused anger, and, at times, grim recollections of some of the victims to whom she had provided care earlier on. She had untreated posttraumatic stress disorder. This doctor is not alone. Trauma surgeons are at risk for developing psyc…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…iterature documents the development of psychological trauma anywhere from 6-to-22% of first responders called to a critical incident. Psychological trauma results in disruptions to the three domains of good physical and mental health: reasonable mastery of one’s daily activities; caring attachments or social support from other colleagues, families, and friends; and a meaningful prosocial purpose in life, a value and reason to invest energy in the…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…blog examines the characteristics of assaultive patients for the next five-year period, 2013-17, and includes a methodological update. In the years 1960-2020, two international reviews of assaultive patients [1] reported that younger, male patients with schizophrenia who had past histories of violence and substance abuse and who were involuntarily committed presented the greatest risk for assault. The international review for the years, 2000-2012…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…ath, permanent or temporary disability, medical injury, loss of economic income, loss of community, loss of daily life routines. Terrorist incidents also result in intense fear and in some victims the intense fear of psychological trauma. Many terrorist events are sudden, unexpected, potentially life threatening events over which the victims have no control. These events may result in hypervigilance, an exaggerated startle response, recurring thou…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…en, organized and presented, There’s No Handle on My Door is very highly recommended for both community and library Mental Health & Psychology collections. For personal reading lists, it should be noted that There’s No Handle on My Door is also available in a Kindle edition ($9.99). Reviewer: Susan Bethany.” Following is the second Midwest Book Review notice for Violence: Why People Do Bad Things, with Strategies to Reduce that Risk “Shootings. St…
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Evander Lomke
…he American Mental Health Foundation congratulates its own Dr. Eric Green, Associate Professor of School Counseling at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, as well as AMHF professional advisory board member, on receiving the 2015 Counselor Educator of the Year Award at the Indiana School Counselor Association Annual Conference, November 13, 2015. Dr. Green is pictured with his Purdue graduate research assistant, Mike Lotz, at the awards lun…
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Evander Lomke
…ne such major transformation, as we move to a global economy and ubiquitous-computerized age. Many people in these circumstances feel adrift, unaccepted, and some become violent. The second theory of violence is biological in nature. Whereas there is no known genetic basis for violence at present, medicine does know that injuries to the cortex, our thinking brain, and the limbic system where emotions register, may result in violent behaviors. In G…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…Employees should not have glass lamps or ashtrays in offices nor any brick-a-brac, such as staplers, that could be used as potential weapons. Such items should be kept in a drawer and not left on the desk top. Employee Self-defense Some employee groups such as paramedics, health care providers, and retail service delivery personnel, may need to be trained in some acceptable system of self-defense, especially if they are subject to repeated contac…
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Dr. Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
…a true common denominator expressing the fantasies shared by the group vis-a-vis more or less conscious impulses (Ezriel, 1951), a common denominator to which each group member reacts according to his individual makeup. This reciprocal equilibrium plays a part in psychodrama as well as in verbal types of group psychotherapy. It is often during the assignment of roles among group members that its dynamic effects become strikingly clear. One must b…
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…bit of comic relief from all of the 9/11 sadness. Thomas Horn is the twelve-year-old who plays Oskar. He’s verbally gifted and can put sentences together that carry the rhythm of a piano or orchestra crescendo. (In real life, he was the winner of the national Jeopardy!/“Kids’ Week.”) Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the 1995 book, Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, upon which the screenplay is based. The book was panned by John Updike and othe…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
…fession. As previously mentioned, selection of patients for the group was limited only by age and the patient’s acceptance of group therapy as a means of help. The initial age range was from mid-fifties to the mid-sixties. Also, each of these patients had been referred for psychological tests and complete physical examinations before entering the group….
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…chairman of which shall be a member of the Board of Directors: a) Finance Committee b) Program Committee Section 2. The Board of Directors and/or the Executive Director may establish such committees from time to time as may become necessary. Section 3. All committees shall function as advisory committees except those committees designated by the Board of Directors wherein said Board shall designate by resolution the purpose, power and functions o…
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Evander Lomke
…his most beloved books is Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger. This is a compendium of lectures he gave during the last two years of his life, recorded on tape and then transcribed. By reading them, one obtains not only an excellent overview of the Recovery method, but a glimpse into Dr. Low’s compassionate but directive style. Following are passages that give a glimpse at Dr. Low’s personality and style. From: “There Are Two Choices: Security a…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
…erceive they are not being understood. Since such empathy is an empirically-validated component of all successful therapies, Linehan constructed what she defined as Dialetical Behavioral therapy (DBT). There are five elements of DBT: (1)a biosocial theory of disorder that emphasizes transactions between biological disposition and learning; (2) a developmental framework of stages of development; (3) a hierarchical prioritizing of treatment targets…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
…remains a so-called orphan disease. In forms of temporal-lobe epilepsy (TLE) for example, the boundary between emotional distress and structural abnormalities of the brain remains a conundrum for Western science. Today, there are unanswerable questions about the post-ictal (after-seizure) dimensions of personality and behavior. The EEG remains a significant diagnostic tool. But its interpretation, except for grosser abnormalities, remains imperfe…
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Evander Lomke
…an Americans is still and open question that must be further examined.” Two specific areas of need involve suicide among elder Asian-American women and PTSD in Southeast Asia refugees. Finally, “community-level or cross-disciplinary collaborations may be necessary to effectively reach Asian Americans who are reluctant to seek specialty mental health care.”…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
…direct services to girls and the volunteers who work with them, and to the communities they serve. Girl Scouting is open to all girls from kindergarten through high school.” AMHF congratulates the Girl Scouts for their centennial celebration, for the work they foster regarding mental health generally, for their work with those with special needs; and AMHF acknowledges the U.S. Mint for recognizing the work of this organization and this special eve…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
From Counseling Today, some recommendations of new books: *The Danger-to-Self-or-Others Exception to Confidentiality (C. Ahia, University Press of America) This topic has been one that has been in the news this past year with tragedies including the movie theater shooting, train deaths in NYC, as well as the Newtown tragedy. The subject is an important one and there are many grey areas for clinicians—and a choice either way can involve important…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
…ademark period for many “name drugs” is ending. This occurs after seventeen-to-twenty years for many medications. Once this occurs, any company can create the same drug-name and charge far less. Much of the high cost of “name drugs” comes from the tens of millions (and even more) dollars and years of development (including clinical trials) that must occur before even one drug is sold to the public. Once other manufacturers start making name drugs,…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
…doctor was required to do a complete intake on me. This took roughly forty-five minutes, and throughout the entire interview he typed my answers onto a standard form that was on a computer. One can view this in a number of ways. Perhaps it is good that there is “a high level of being thorough.” On the other hand, it seemed wasteful. It was not relevant to my presenting complaint. And I had to get into a long discussion about not wanting the flu v…
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William Van Ornum, Ph.D.
…effect as if the subject, though capable of assuming a certain position vis-a-vis the doctor in whom he has placed his confidence, cannot make any departure whatever from that position. One frequently observes patients who make a frank and lucid presentation of their problems as they see them, and then, after a few interviews, can find nothing further to say—a concomitant of those very problems, limiting factors which circumscribe a patient’s expr…
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…rt, like Medicare and Medicaid, private insurance coverage and bearable out-of-pocket expenses by the patients. This economically-driven trend, which is another story of its own and which it would be a real digression to try to discuss in detail here, is driving psychiatric residency training out of the community general hospitals all across the country and pushing the training, apart from the medical schools that are of course committed to reside…
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…ore the fact that such information is available. More and more facile, easy-to-learn and easy-to-practice treatment methods have become the norm and their advocates occupy academic positions of prominence. Their writings are widely acclaimed by other academicians and by a majority of psychotherapists. As stated, the present system of mental health education is vastly ineffective and cumbersome. In order to become a psychotherapist, the future prac…
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…derick Ungar Publishing, Ungar being among the great generation of European-Jewish emigrés. (Whatever German-language authors Alfred Knopf did not translate, Ungar did, including Hermann Hesse, Arthur Schnitzler, and Karl Kraus.) Not long after, Ungar—who was by then very old—sold his company to the Continuum Publishing Group in 1985, where I continued on for more than twenty years, rising to the position of vice president and senior editor. Concu…
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Evander Lomke
…essary to establish the comparative efficacy of intensive psychotherapy vis-a-vis briefer or drug-centered approaches to the array of disorders in the psychopathological spectrum, but suffice it to say that in terms of the criteria central to governmental and insurance carriers and concern for the relief and amelioration of presenting symptoms and disturbed or disturbing manifest behaviors, it is unlikely that intensive psychotherapy will be (or c…
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