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psychologytoday.com > us > blog > special-matters > 202609 > parent-burnout-and-special-needs-parenting

Parental Burnout and Special Needs Parenting

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (209+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader It is also important to remember that being a good parent does not mean being available every minute of every day. Your child can have needs that are important without those needs always having…...

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psychologytoday.com > us > blog > head-strong > 202609 > 911-25-years-later-a-survivor-remembers

9/11 25 Years Later: A Survivor Remembers

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (293+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley In the recent National Geographic documentary series 9/11: Reunited, Col. Wills and Cmdr. Powell were reunited for the first time since the attack.[3] Sharing their memories of that day, 25 years later, was part of the…...

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psychologytoday.com > nz > blog > disability-is-diversity > 202609 > beyond-the-visible-invisible-disability-binary

Beyond the Visible-Invisible Disability Binary

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (569+ words) Updated September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk For too long, we’ve relied on a simple binary to describe disability: Is it visible or invisible, concealable or not? Although these terms are common, they don’t quite capture the fluid, multisensory nature of…...

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psychologytoday.com > nz > blog > am-i-dying > 202609 > 25-years-later-911-is-still-a-collective-trauma

25 Years Later, 9/11 Is Still a Collective Trauma

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (195+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Alexander J., Eyerman R., Giesen B., Smelser N., Sztompka P. (eds). (2004). Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity: Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press Breslau, N., Kessler, R. C., Chilcoat, H. D., Schultz, L. R., Davis, G. C., & Andreski, P. (1998). Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder…...

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psychologytoday.com > za > blog > emotional-origins-of-violence > 202609 > when-defiance-began-to-mean-something-else

When Defiance Began to Mean Something Else

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (711+ words) Posted September 9, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma More than 20 years have passed, and I still remember Juan Manuel. I have changed his name and details to protect his identity. Juan Manuel was in 11th grade when I met him at a school…...

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psychologytoday.com > sg > blog > the-adolescent-ed > 202609 > the-10-second-rule-for-reading-health-statistics

The 10-Second Rule for Reading Health Statistics

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (243+ words) Posted September 8, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch I run a journal club every year built around one exercise. I hand residents four published papers, each with a genuinely defensible statistical approach, and ask two of them to debate the same paper....

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psychologytoday.com > ie > blog > our-human-condition > 202609 > dangerous-books-and-why-vice-is-a-virtue-in-literature

Dangerous Books and Why Vice Is a Virtue in Literature

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (278+ words) Posted September 7, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma “It's a mistake to conflate the author with his characters. Characters exist to perfect the author; both his virtues and his vices.”—Jean-Luc Beauchard, The Fruit of Death The Limits of Moral Evaluation Part…...

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psychologytoday.com > gb > blog > denying-to-the-grave > 202609 > does-reduced-exposure-to-misinformation-change-beliefs

Does Reduced Exposure to Misinformation Change Beliefs?

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (594+ words) psychologytoday.com Does Reduced Exposure to Misinformation Change Beliefs? A new study suggests that untrustworthy sources isn't the answer on its own. Posted September 7, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk - Some heavy users of social media encounter very high volumes of misinformation....

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psychologytoday.com > us > blog > hide-and-seek > 201205 > our-hierarchy-of-needs

Our Hierarchy of Needs

1+ week, 16+ min ago   (807+ words) Updated September 6, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma In his influential paper of 1943, A Theory of Human Motivation, the psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that healthy human beings have a certain number of needs, and that these needs can be arranged in a…...

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psychologytoday.com > au > blog > hide-and-seek > 201509 > when-homosexuality-stopped-being-a-mental-disorder

When Homosexuality Stopped Being a Mental Disorder

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (136+ words) Updated September 6, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina The APA then compromised, removing homosexuality from the DSM but replacing it, in effect, with ‘sexual orientation disturbance’ for those people ‘in conflict with’ their sexual orientation. Not until 1987 did homosexuality completely fall out…...