Mental & Health
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Doing things the Sri Lankan way.
By Dr Marcel de Roos, Psychologist PhD, the Netherlands In the fourteen years that I live in Sri Lanka I…
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Emotions in the Boardroom
By Dr. Marcel de Roos (Psychologist PhD, the Netherlands)www.marcelderoos.com In my psychology practice I have coached many business people from…
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Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorders: a cry for (self)love?
By Dr. Marcel de Roos (Psychologist PhD, the Netherlands),www.marcelderoos.com Eating disorders are serious diseases. The physical and social consequences are…
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Depression, the serotonin myth debunked
Recently (July 2022) an article in Nature (which cited a comprehensive study in the journal of Molecular Psychiatry in…
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The trouble with the DSM-5
The psychiatrists’ bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM, fifth edition), is an arbitrary classification system with…
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Breast cancer and emotional support
The diagnosis breast cancer and the following treatment have major consequences for the patient and her family. The feelings you…
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Abusive relationships
“I hardly felt the physical pain; the mental terror was the worst”. This is what I usually hear in my…
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What makes a relationship / marriage work?
By Dr Marcel de Roos, Psychologist PhD, the Netherlands One of the most complicated things for two people is to…
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The double illusion of the DSM
By Dr Marcel de Roos, Psychologist PhD, the Netherlands The psychiatrist’s bible, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”…
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Grossly exaggerated prevalence figures of bipolar depression
By Dr Marcel de Roos (Psychologist PhD, the Netherlands). A mental disorder like bipolar depression (or for example “ADHD”) is…
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