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"Borderline individuals are the psychological equivalent of third-degree-burn patients. They simply have, so to speak, no emotional skin."

University of Washington psychologist Marsha M. Linehan, PhD
Time, Jan. 8

"You start seeing huge differences in terms of depression scores, PTSD rates, all sorts of mental health issues. And I think it has to do with the separation from family and friends and that social support network."

Army psychologist and suicide researcher Col. Carl Castro, PhD, in an article on suicides among service members. The Marine Corps reported 41 actual or suspected suicides in 2008, a 20 percent increase over 2007. The Army counted 128 suicides in 2008, the most since tracking began in 1980.
USA Today, Jan. 13

"Masters and Johnson saw men and women as extremely similar. Now it's research on differences that gets funded, that gets published, that the public is interested in."

Julia Heiman, PhD, director of the Kinsey Institute
New York Times Magazine, Jan. 22

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