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A new phrase captures neatly a dilemma that many good friends face: when are they being taken advantage of, being asked to provide unpaid emotional labor? I was talking with a very thoughtful young man who has two good friends who have been going through a lot of emotional turmoil for the past year. He has been trying to be a …
An hour after I dictated a post about the complexity of working with patients with extreme moods. People whose moods may affect them so powerfully that a model of treatment that is purely based on the ethical principle of autonomy (I provide you with the information and you make the decisions about whether or not to seek treatment) doesn’t make …
