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Why restoring morale is important to mental health in difficult times

  • Written by Joan Cook, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
imageCity workers in London place flowers in the heart of the city after terrorism killed seven people and wounded 40 others. Tim Ireland/AP

The term demoralization was originally coined in the 1970s by a psychiatrist who was seeing patients that didn’t quite meet full criteria for major depression. Nonetheless, they were suffering – in a...

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