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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

How to Read a Scientific Article

Mary C. Vance, MD on August 7, 2018

Feel lost when you're reading a scientific article? Here are a few tips to help you out.

Trauma

Five Common False Beliefs About Trauma

Mary C. Vance, MD on June 24, 2018

Recovering from trauma can be difficult and painful. Correcting some of these false beliefs may help.

Psychiatry

Four Things to Know About Psychiatry

Mary C. Vance, MD on January 1, 2017

Dissatisfied with psychiatric care? Here's the bigger picture about what interferes with rapport.

Mary C. Vance, MD, is a psychiatrist and research fellow with the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Michigan and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

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The Perfectionism Trap

When we fall prey to perfectionism, we think we’re honorably aspiring to be our very best, but often we’re really just setting ourselves up for failure, as perfection is impossible and its pursuit inevitably backfires.

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