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Split Personality: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness
In this series we have been reviewing commonly held ideas about mental illness and mental health that, outside of psychiatry, are often...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
Sep 22, 20235 min read
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Violence and the Mentally Ill: Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental Illness
Are people with mental illnesses more violent than those without them? Many state legislatures have recently acted on the idea that they...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
Jun 8, 20234 min read
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Character Sketches: Values, Utopia, and a Man Undeterred
We have been discussing in this series the link between values and self-esteem: how defining the former can inform conscious choices...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
Dec 5, 20226 min read
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Character Sketches: Maintaining Self-Esteem During Bad Times
Joshua Waitzkin, the subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer,[1],[2] describes in his own book, The Art of Learning: An...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
Aug 26, 20224 min read
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Character Sketches: Is Self-Esteem Valuable?
We can create good self-esteem through identifying personal values we choose from society, then ensuring that our behavior supports...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
Jul 27, 20223 min read
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Character Sketches: Which Values are Valuable?
Self-esteem can be built by behavior consistent with personal values. Previous posts[1] have shown that this process works essentially...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
Jun 30, 20222 min read
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Character Sketches: Creating & Maintaining Self-Esteem
“…everyone else would have done it.” Mallory Holtman, Central Washington University On April 26, 2008, senior Mallory Holtman played in...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
May 19, 20226 min read
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Character Sketches: Behavior Measures Character
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” – Anonymous, often misattributed to Edmund Burke[1] The...

H. Paul Putman III, MD
Apr 27, 20226 min read
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