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Healing means control. That is what I learned when I started medical school nearly a decade ago. It’s a belief embedded so deep in our understanding of medicine that it usually escapes conscious ...

Think you know the difference between a rule and a boundary? If not, your relationship might just suffer. Here’s why. Few concepts have caught fire in the pop psychology, relationship and self-help ...