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The age difference in the couple and the child within us

Or about the child in each of us, who never ages No matter how old our ID card is, there is a child living inside each of us. A child who has waited to be seen, held, calmed when he was afraid, admired unconditionally. Sometimes he was, sometimes less...

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Brain fog in perimenopause: what recent studies show

Perimenopause, cognition and validation of an often minimized experience Perimenopause is not just a time of hormonal changes, hot flashes, or sleep disturbances. For many women, it is also a stage in which real cognitive changes occur: difficulty concentrating, a feeling of brain fog, more frequent forgetfulness, the need...

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Why I love clinical psychology

Why I love clinical psychology or how I ended up reading the DSM over coffee   Clinical psychology isn’t sexy. It’s not in the movies, it doesn’t have a good soundtrack, and no one mentions it at parties. And yet, 20 years later, I still wake up in the...

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How the HiTOP model, proposed by Miri Forbes, changed the way I understand psychopathology

Why the HiTOP model deserves every clinician’s attention I admit: although in Romania we officially work with the ICD , I was, for the most part, raised professionally with the DSM on my desk . Ever since college, I felt that the information I was receiving about mental disorders...

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You are responsabile for what you tame

I went to the theater tonight – The Little Prince, with the wonderful Oana Pellea and the incredible Lari Giorgescu. My goodness, how I cried! The tears came like a flood, like a release after all the hard days, after this entire year filled with everything – joys, losses,...

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