"Ananda, one of the Buddha's disciples, said to the Buddha one day, "I've realised that half of the path to the holy life is made of good friendships." "No, Ananda," the Buddha said. "Friends are not half of the holy life. They are all of the holy life."

Upaddha Suta

Recent research: 2 on frequency of psychological disorder, and 5 on using books, phones & computers to deliver CBT

10th November 2010

Here are seven recent articles that caught my interest (abstracts & links are given further down the page). The first two revisit the "How common is troublesome psychological distress?" question. The title of Moffitt et al's paper is self-explanatory - "How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence …

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Recent research: articles from October journals

3rd November 2010

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,200 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

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