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Adventures in Biography

Lives and the challenges of writing about them.

Sex
Sex Addiction and the Alpha Male: A Biographer's Perspective

Joshua Kendall on June 10, 2013

Alpha males tend to have difficulty bonding with others, so having lots of sex partners is not uncommon. For them, sex is typically about being serviced; love has little do to with it.

Alpha males tend to have difficulty bonding with others, so having lots of sex partners is not uncommon. For them, sex is typically about being serviced; love has little do to with it.

Psychiatry
DSM 5 and Psychiatry's Classification Crisis (Part One)

Joshua Kendall on May 23, 2013

Psychiatric distress will never be able to be understood in the same way as cancer or other medical diseases.

The task at hand is to figure out which categories are most useful in understanding human beings.

Psychiatric distress will never be able to be understood in the same way as cancer or other medical diseases.

The task at hand is to figure out which categories are most useful in understanding human beings.