An Interview with Robert Whitaker

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An Interview with Robert Whitaker

FromThe Stories We Live By

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Jan 26, 2009

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Robert Whitaker is the Pulitzer Prize nominated author of "Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill."

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Jan 26, 2009

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Retelling our own life stories that are creative and hopeful rather living as victims and in despair.

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Stories from a Time Warp: Do you ever still feel six years old? by The Stories We Live By
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Detoxifying the relationship with yourself: Removing damaging language from your vocabulary and replacing it with insight and creativity. by The Stories We Live By
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War Stories: The psychology of war and the meaning war gives to life. by The Stories We Live By
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The Stories Politicians Tell Us: Part 2 by The Stories We Live By
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A story about Rebecca Riley: How psychiatry, her parents, the media, and society at large murdered little Rebecca Riley. A discussion with psychiatrist Phil Sinaikin by The Stories We Live By
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On the Care and Feeding of the Human Soul: What is the soul? Must it be a religious concept? How do we best develop and protect our souls? by The Stories We Live By
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Stories told, lessons learned.: Why the narratives we live by matter. by The Stories We Live By
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The Mind - Body Connection: Changing our mind - body stories for better, healthier, more creative living by The Stories We Live By
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Anxiety Is Your Friend: Making anxiety work for you by The Stories We Live By
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Toxic Relationships: With yourself, others and with professionals: Recognizing and changing dehumanizing relationships in every aspect of life. by The Stories We Live By
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A STORY ABOUT "MENTAL HEALTH": How to be happy and creative by The Stories We Live By
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Where Have all the dissenting Stories Gone?: A discussion on some possible reasons why dissent, outrage, and rebellion have all but disappeared from our stories by The Stories We Live By
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Stories about Love: Can you love another if you don't love yourself? Can you love yourself if you have never been loved? Can you love yourself if you don't love others? by The Stories We Live By
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Stories About How We Make Our Worst Fears Come True: A discussion about how our individual and collective failures to create stories that allow us to own our worst nightmares damages all of our lives and what to d by The Stories We Live By
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A Conversation with Doctor Thomas Szasz, M.D.: A discussion with the world famous psychiatric critic and author of "The Myth of Mental Illness" as well as dozens of other important books on psychiatry. We wi by The Stories We Live By
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Some stories about our emotions.: "You made me angry!" "You made me feel guilty!" I don't think so. by The Stories We Live By
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The Stories Politicians Tell: Why we should always fear all governments by The Stories We Live By
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Me, My Knee, My Life: What Can be said and Not Said: Stories about my knee operation and what it has taught me about how temporary and precious life is. by The Stories We Live By
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Saying the Unsayable: How restoring repressed and split off parts of our stories can improve our lives by The Stories We Live By
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The Mental Health System Is Killing our Children or How to learn to hate yourself while still a baby: How the constant "diagnosis," "observation" and "treatment" of our children is damaging them and our democracy. by The Stories We Live By
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Psychological Stories about Racism, Sexism and all the other "Isms" so Precious to us!: The important, often invisible psychological role that prejudice and the dehumanization of others plays in all of our lives. by The Stories We Live By
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