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Table of Contents
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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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