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The good life is built with good relationships.
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Good
Built
Good Life
Life Good Good Life
Good Relationships
Relationships
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Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
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Parenting
Poor
Sibling
Reflected
Relationships
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A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
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Health
Cigarette
Physical Health
Smoking
Hazardous
Physical
Troubled
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Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development.
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Sibling
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It seems older people maximize their well-being more - they start to realize that life is short.
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Life Is Short
Older People
Seems
Well Being
Life Start People
Short
Older
Maximize
Realize
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In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.
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Billions
Medicine
Reflecting
Each Year
Fraction
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An essential question regarding treatment is whether psychodynamic therapy is effective for specific disorders.
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Therapy
Treatment
Disorders
Effective
Regarding
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Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.
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Parenting
Quality
Add
Information
Sibling
Taken
Account
Relationships
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Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.
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Entire Lives
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When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.
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Cost
Failing
Health Care
Human Relationships
Oversight
Policy
Staggering
Health Value Care
Relationships
Seriously
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More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones.
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Absent
Complaints
Connections
Doctors
Half
Loved Ones
Include
Origin
Patients
Troubled
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It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.
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Quality
Relationship
Committed
Close
Matters
Number
Relationships
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Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.
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Hard Work
Labels
Pushy
Work People New
Work Hard Work People
Dishonest
Figuring
Simpler
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It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.
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Connected
Turns
Physically
Family Community People
Happier
Healthier
Longer
Socially
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The fact remains that many of the most creative and innovative hypotheses that are eventually verified by empirical research are born in the consulting room out of practitioners' work with individual patients.
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Consulting
Innovative
Remains
Empirical
Hypotheses
Patients
Verified
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As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.
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Boston
Caucasian
Creation
Defining
Iowa
Labels
Male
Countless
My Self
Zen
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Far from the stereotype that psychodynamic treatments are appropriate only for the 'worried well,' a growing body of evidence points to their efficacy in dealing with the most pressing mental health problems of our time.
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Appropriate
Efficacy
Evidence
Health Problems
Mental Health
Our Time
Stereotype
Worried
Dealing
Pressing
Treatments
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We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.
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Accusing
Artificial
Black
Black And White
Boomers
Fingers
Millennials
Pointing
White
Everywhere
Against
Black And White Black White
Baby Boomers
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Divisions
Republicans
Walls
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Being human means there's a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we're all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.
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Being Human
World Me Look
Naturally
Divide
Look World Me
Minds
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Wherever
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Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.
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Amount
Asking
Creative
Forget
Happens
Hindsight
Human Life
Remember
Vast
Downright
Memory
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People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
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Health
Brain
Isolated
Lonely
Sooner
Earlier
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Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can't get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.
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Human Life
Lays
Urgent
Life Work Important
Actionable
Anywhere Else
Cure
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Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.
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Despite
Government Agencies
Health Care
Insurance Companies
Mental Health
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Industry
Agencies
Brief
Difficulties
Insurance
Quick
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