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Get ready for summer travel! Manage the worries that come with preparations!
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I Think I Have Travel Anxiety! Help!
A Bit of Mesearch on Behalf of Many of Us
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June 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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My latest Substack entry, it includes a note on when the next one will drop.
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Antisemitism in Academia, Part 2a
Biases against the topic in scholarly publishing, and a note about a brief hiatus
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June 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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My latest Substack piece on moral disgust. First of many on this topic.
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The Golden Age of Disgust
So many things provoke this understudied emotion
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May 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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My latest Substack piece.
"...what happens when a client seeks clinicians who are opposed to specific groups? Or when clinicians expressly deny care to members of some groups?"
You'll need to read the piece to see what happens next. Subscribing is free.

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The Dangerous Rise of Relativism in Mental Healthcare
Granting Practitioners the Right to Deny Care Based on Illusory Rationales
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May 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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In Reluctant Defense of Estrangement
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In Reluctant Defense of Estrangement
The Assumptions in the Public and Mental Health Arenas Are, Unsurprisingly, Out of Step with the Experts
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May 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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In Reluctant Defense of Estrangement
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In Reluctant Defense of Estrangement
The Assumptions in the Public and Mental Health Arenas Are, Unsurprisingly, Out of Step with the Experts
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May 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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My latest Substack piece on the global politicization of mental health. open.substack.com/pub/anxiety7...
Global Politics and Mental Healthcare
Sitting at the interface of knowledge, morality, and ethics
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April 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Check out my latest on the hazards of politicizing mental healthcare. First in a multi-part series.
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Dean McKay on Substack
The rising politicization of the mental health professions is a risk to clients and other practitioners. This is the first of many on this topic.
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April 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Check out my Substack page, Anxiously Waiting! Subscription is free.
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Pseudoscience in Mental Health Treatment
It’s Far More Common Than You Think
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April 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Anxiously Waiting
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Anxiously Waiting | Substack
A professor disseminating psychology information in these anxious times. Click to read Anxiously Waiting, a Substack publication. Launched 24 days ago.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Spread the word about this upcoming workshop. NYS and APA accredited CE credits.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Check out our piece on harms to Jews in the social justice model.
McKay, D., White, E.K., Abramovitch, A., Abramowitz, J.S., & Behar, E. (2024). Social justice and ABCT: The specter of unintended consequences. the Behavior Therapist, 47, 382-387.
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the Behavior Therapist’s December 2024 Issue Is Now Available Online - Latest News, New and Noteworthy - ABCT - Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
Volume 47 of the Behavior Therapist wraps up with the 8th issue, released December 2024.
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December 17, 2024 at 1:06 AM