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Joanne Cacciatore on Bereavement Work and Traumatic Loss: On the Future of Mental Health

By Eric R. Maisel — 2016

Part of being human means that we do experience the natural ebb and flow of life. This brings sadness and joy, despair and happiness, pain and beauty, loss and love. These aspects of the human experience are normal.

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The Improvisational Oncologist

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
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After He and His Wife Are Diagnosed with Cancer, a Playwright Reckons with the Gift of Creativity that Trauma Can Bring

In the midst of trauma, everything means something. Signs and symbols appear. You’ve noticed them before, you’re a writer, but now you see them everywhere.

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Dan O'Brien
2021
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The Bernie S. Siegel interview on ‘The Art of Healing’

One key distinction in this new wave of scholars—including books by Coles, Dossey and Bernie Siegel—is that these experts are not selling any specific religious creed. They’re not “faith healers.

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David Crumm
2013
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The Psychosocial Side of Cancer

A cancer diagnosis brings a wealth of psychological challenges. In fact, adults living with cancer have a six-time higher risk for psychological disability than those not living with cancer.

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Suzanne M. Miller
2020
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Reclaiming Lost Talent by the Millions

It’s time to treat the chronic brain disease called addiction.

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Edward Hallowell
2018
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When Grief Becomes a Disorder

What is complicated grief, and how does it differ from depression?

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Sanjay Gupta
2015
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After Tragedy, Nonbelievers Find Other Ways to Cope

Cacciatore says she’s seen nonbelievers embrace spirituality, and religious people wash their hands of God, in the aftermath of tragedy. But most often, she says, tragedy shakes your faith but doesn’t destroy it.

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Barbara Bradley Hagerty
2013
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The Five Types of Avoidance

It's normal for human beings to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Some of the ways in which we seek to avoid pain are adaptive or healthy.

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Jessica Dore
2018
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A Move for Birth Certificates for Stillborn Babies

Nineteen states have enacted laws allowing certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth.

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Tamar Lewin
2007
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DSM-V: Interview With Social Worker Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, FT

I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.

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Georgianna Dolan-Reilly
2013
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