Diogenes In Exile

Diogenes In Exile

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The Quiz That Explains Why Your ‘Helpful’ Comments Annoy Everyone
Meet the Hair Splitter, the Puppetmaster, and other critic archetypes—then learn what your defenses are really up to.
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Can We Make A Better Mental Health Diagnosis Plan Without Labels that Hold You Back?
The Total Mind Diagnostic Model replaces “what’s wrong with you?” with “what’s happening with you?”
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What If We Built a New Therapy Profession That Put Clients First?
Creating a new path for those betrayed by the current system.
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Communal Catastrophizing. Or How Social Media Trains Us to Despair Together
Bad News Is Addictive. Even When It’s Fake.
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New DSM-6 Disorders So Ridiculous, Even Your Therapist Will Laugh
More labels, less accountability—mental health just got a glow-up!
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Counseling’s Political Purity Push: Unveiling the Identity Crisis That Hijacked Accreditation and Shaped a Profession
How Mental Health Therapy was Captured by Social Justice Ideology
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State Laws Ignored: Counseling Accreditation and How to Demand Reform NOW!
The accreditation controversy and how to force lawmakers to take notice
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The Real Reason Science Is Failing Us: A Look into Psychology’s Blind Spot
Are we silencing the studies that could transform our understanding of human nature?
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Is Cultural Sensitivity Undermining Mental Health Treatment?
There is an epidemic of mental illness in Japan called hikikomori.
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Shadows in the Halls: Bullied by Faculty in My Counseling Masters
My account of what I experienced in Grad School for Clinical Mental Health Counseling
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