Click Here to Read:   Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness — from the inside on the TEDGlobal 2012 website in June 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Anderson Cooper’s Coming Out Rattles China’s Closet By Didi  Kirsten Tatlow on the IHT Rendevous section of the International Herald Tribune website on  July 5, 2012,

Click here to read “How to Make Optimism Work for You” by Jane E. Brody from The New York Times blog “The Optimistic Life” on July 2, 2012.

Click here to read Brody’s original column on optimism from May 2012.

A reflective account of life on meds beginning in adolescence:

” I do know that for me, taking medication was a very mixed
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Click Here To Read: Families brace for mental health cuts. Will other states follow Wisconsin? By Lauren Hasler on the Open Center MSNBC website on June 30. 2012.

Click Here to Read: Insight:  Newsletter of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association July 2012..

Click Here to Read: 18 days of upheaval at U-Va. by Paul Schwartzman, Daniel de Vise, Anita Kumar and Jenna Johnson  in the Washington Post on  June 30, 2012

Click Here to Read: Empathy Is Not Indulgence: Empathy helps children bounce back by Kenneth Barish, Ph.D. on his Pride and Joy blog on the Psychology Today blogs on June 25, 2012.

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Engaging children in the solution of problems by Kenneth Barish, Ph.D  on his Pride and Joy blog on the Psychology Today blogs on  May 28, 2012 .

Click Here to Read: Why has Jewish ritual of circumcision survived so long, and remained so resonant? Sigmund Freud, in his writings on primal trauma, may have inadvertently provided an explanation By Benjamin Kerstein in The Times of Israel on June 30, 2012.

Sigmund Freud (photo credit: Max Halberstadt/LIFE/Wikimedia Commons)