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Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something?… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
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“Let’s take a quick look at what a psychopath is. Although the American Psychiatric Association (APA) no longer uses this term, much… — Robert Kirkconnell Copy Share Image
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Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
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“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“God healed everything in my life from a non-curable disease, bad programming from child sexual abuse, father and mother wounds, bitterness, hatred,… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
“Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
![“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her daily life. That becomes the job of at least one ANP [apparently normal part of the personality], whom the child creates to be unaware of the abuse and also of the…” quote by Alison Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/alison-miller-20257_amnesia_a-child-who-is-being-abused-on-an-ongoin_1146863.jpg)
