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		<title>Mental Patients to Be Released from Chains in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;And meanwhile, in Thailand&#8230;&#8217; &#8211; it feels like looking back into how mental health issues were dealt with 100+ years ago in Europe. Thailand is very backward with respect to public information regarding mental illness and its treatment and training for mental health providers. The highest degree in psychology in Thailand is a bachelor degree, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroplasticity: modifying our brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, the brain of an adult was considered as a rigidly fixed, hard-wired organ. The latest scientific findings, however, show just the opposite, proving not only something that Buddhists have always known, but also illustrating why psychotherapy &#8216;works&#8217; … and that many of our weaknesses might actually be more changeable than we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Psychopath or Narcissist? Self test online.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Practice Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antisocial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[histrionic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A test checking for traits of the following personality disorders has just been put online: Psychopathy / Antisocial Personality Disorder Narcissistic Personality Disorder Histrionic Personality Disorder Even among professionals, there is confusion about the meanings and differences between psychopathy, sociopathy, antisocial and histrionic personality disorder, and much more so amongst persons who sense problems in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viagra habituation &#8211; no wonder remedy after all.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erectile Dysfunction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impotence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Levitra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharma industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prostate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychosomatics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sildenafil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tadalafil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testosterone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprima]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.counseling-office.com/pt-blog/?p=1881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Viagra, the popular anti-impotence drug, may stop working for many patients after 2 years, the results of a study suggest. Dr. Rizk El-Galley of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and colleagues interviewed 151 men who had filled prescriptions for Viagra. Overall, 74% reported that 25 milligrams (mg) to 100 mg of the drug enabled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide &#8211; Facts and Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Abuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nicotine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychotherapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To a high extent, the work of a psychotherapist consists of the treatment of the various forms of depression, so I&#8217;ve always tried to improve my understanding of this particular form of mental disorder &#8211; and of its most extreme form, the idea to commit suicide. So I&#8217;ve continuously gathered data on suicide &#8211; here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Female Violence &#8211; a societal taboo</title>
		<link>http://www.counseling-office.com/pt-blog/female-violence-taboo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.psychotherapiepraxis.at/pt-blog/?p=441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting figures have recently been published by the British Home Office: statistics show that young men suffer just as much as women from &#8216;abuse&#8217; by their partners &#8211; at least if forms of emotional violence like harassment or bullying are considered as forms of abuse as well. Probably because men are usually feeling less self-confident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts of a suicide survivor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dissociation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paranoid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presuicidal constriction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychotherapy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.psychotherapiepraxis.at/pt-blog/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I stumbled upon an impressive and moving interview with the survivor of a suicide attempt that was published in a newspaper article in September 2000. In a state of presuicidal constriction / presuicidal syndrome, Kevin Hines jumped of the Golden Gate Bridge and survived this jump only by extremely fortunate circumstances . Today he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific dating tips&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.counseling-office.com/pt-blog/dating-tips-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attraction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[narcissism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychopathy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Selbstsabotage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-esteem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social anxiety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wealth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.psychotherapiepraxis.at/pt-blog/?p=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many clients tell me of difficulties finding the right relationship partner. Of course such problems almost always have psychological reasons &#8211; in one way or another, these persons sabotaged themselves, they suffer from forms of social anxiety or (in my experience, this is the most common reason) have low self-esteem. The issues around dating, attraction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase the testosterone levels &#8211; but how?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andropause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erectile Dysfunction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hormones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libido]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Menopause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex Therapy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.psychotherapiepraxis.at/pt-blog/?p=1303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Andropause is an onset of hormonal changes in men &#8211; mostly between the ages of 40 and 50 -, which is triggered by reduced testosterone levels. Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and is produced in the testes. It affects all body cells and is responsible not only for sexual development, but also for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fear of Being A Pedophile</title>
		<link>http://www.counseling-office.com/pt-blog/pedophile-fear-phobia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.counseling-office.com/pt-blog/pedophile-fear-phobia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r.l.fellner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Practice Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obsessive-compulsive disorders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paraphilia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedophilia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual compulsivity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.counseling-office.com/pt-blog/?p=1818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For several years now, I have observed a significant rise in clients &#8211; especially male ones &#8211; who suffer from massive fears of having pedophilic tendencies. Even though these fears are often unfounded, they may cause intense symptoms like massive emotional pressure and suffering or even self-inflicted injuries. In diagnostic terms, however, what by far [...]]]></description>
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