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H. Paul Putman III, MD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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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...