Stories about life, death, and politics. Is there anything left to say?

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Stories about life, death, and politics. Is there anything left to say?

FromThe Stories We Live By

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Sep 8, 2008

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The political stories now dominating the 2008 election have much to do with how we see life and death. I fear that themes of death are getting stronger than those concerned with life.

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Sep 8, 2008

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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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War Stories: The psychology of war and the meaning war gives to life. by The Stories We Live By
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Human Beings and Other Things: The difference between being a human being and an object by The Stories We Live By
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Crazy Stories and the Stories that Make Us Crazy: A discussion of the types of ideas that make us go really nuts if we start to believe that they are true. (For example, your mother really doesn't love you.) 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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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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Anxiety Is Your Friend: Making anxiety work for you 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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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 Addiction: You can drink on Tuesday but choose not to on Wednesday by The Stories We Live By
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Stories about sex: How our stories about power, love and moral goodness affect our sex lives. 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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Stories about Machines and Human Beings: Which Type Do You Live By: Modern science treats us as machines. Psychiatry and psychology, which should foster humanistic stories to live by, pretend to be sciences that foster the story 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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The Stories Politicians Tell: Why we should always fear all governments by The Stories We Live By
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Political Stories and Human Relationships: Between Gods, Devils, Objects and Human Beings by The Stories We Live By
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Healing the Hurting Soul: A Conversation with Psychologist Louis Wynne by The Stories We Live By
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A Story about the Drugging of America's Children: A discussion about the catastrophic moral, political, economic, psychological and medical consequences of the mental health industry's war on children. 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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The Stories Politicians Tell Us: Part 2 by The Stories We Live By
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Thomas Szasz: Filling in the Details: A discussion of some of psychiatrist Thomas Szasz' ideas in detail. How to ask intelligent questions of your shrink. 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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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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Stories of Reality, Denial and Acceptance: We know what we believe to be real no matter how hard we try and deny unpleasant realities. In the long run there is no peace, or even real living, until we acc 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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An Interview with Grace Jackson, M.D.: Dr. Jackson is one of the foremost experts on the deleterious effects of psychiaric drugs and is the author of "Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Inform 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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An Interview with Robert Whitaker: Robert Whitaker is the Pulitzer Prize nominated author of "Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill." by The Stories We Live By
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Owning Our Life Stories: We can own our life stories and have choices about changing our lives or mindlessly live out our life stories and repeat the same mistakes and recreate the same 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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Stories about life, death, and politics. Is there anything left to say?

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