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In this month's issue:
Psychopharmacology:
When do meds make the difference?
A drug pipeline problem?
Advising the FDA
Front-line psychopharmacology
Div. 55's drive for RxP
Prescriptive authority in the states
Dateline: Iraq
Army psychologist Capt. Jeffrey Bass—featured in the September
Monitor—reflects on his first months of deployment.
'The Business Doctor'
A Chicago-area radio program moves industrial/organizational psychology from the board-room to the airwaves.
The brain
in the voting booth For American voters, emotion, not
reason, wins the race,says psychologist and author Drew
Westen
Minding the gap Having a serious mental illness may cut life short by an average of 25 years. Psychologists and other mental health professionals are working to change that.
Finding the right words After a lifetime of serving people with mental illnesses, writing helps this psychologist and Alzheimer's patient make sense of his own mind.
Connection or misdirection? When people with mental health problems seek support online, both benefits and pitfalls abound.
Science Watch
The two faces of oxytocin Why does the 'tend and befriend' hormone come into play at the best and worst of times?
Making
sense of dollars and cents Neuroeconomics is tackling the
fundamental questions of decision-making and rewriting economic textbooks
along the way.
Moving up in academe Psychologists
grapple with the challenges of assuming new roles at their
institutions.
Early-Career Psychologists
Junior faculty woes Early-career faculty on the tenure
track are concerned— even confused—by their institutions'
policies.
Art imitating life
An innovative program
at the University of Texas uses theater to fight relationship violence.
Ethics Rounds
Multiple relationships: A vignette Finding oneself
in a multiple relationship is not necessarily a sign that one has engaged in unethical
behavior. It may rather be a sign that one is fully engaged in the life of a community.
Bray wins APA's presidential race APA's
2009 president outlines his priorities.
DEPARTMENTS
Letters
President's column
From the CEO
Judicial notebook
In the public interest
Science directions
Ethics rounds
Association news
Division spotlight
American Psychological Foundation
People
Staff
IN BRIEF
Consistent routines may ease bipolar disorder
Spirituality's importance to practicing psychologists
Positively global: Psychology welcomes a new association
Gene discovery sheds light on alcohol consumption
ADHD: Delay or deviation?
Technique offers a peek at neurogenesis
New options for military psychologists New Medicare cuts averted for six months
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