Dr. Mary Bowles - MindWise Institute

03/30/2026

Here's a great opportunity to learn some great emotion pairing techniques and the neuroscience that underlies effective change; specifically memory reconsolidation.

Emotion Pairing in Practice: Applied Memory Reconsolidation Training
LIVE via Zoom
May 04, 2026
9:00am - 5:00pm CST
Fee: $195 (early bird pricing through 04/14/26 - $225 beginning 4/15/26)

Register here: https://www.mindwiseinstitute.com/presentations.html

02/22/2026

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02/21/2026

"We're all normal within the context of our own lives. Normal isn't always effective."
~Dr. Mary Bowles

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02/20/2026

Don't miss those bids for connection. Those are the deposits into your relationship's trust bank account. Ignoring them becomes a withdrawal.

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02/20/2026

I see this exact trend in family therapy. Parents complain their kids are "addicted to their phones." The kids complain about their parents doing the same thing.

Kids do learn more from what they see than what you say!

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Something approaching a moral panic has taken hold in many countries over the impact of digital technology on young people. Yet a less-noticed explosion in screen time is happening within a different generation https://econ.st/4qpJmdD

02/19/2026

Keep the string taut! 🥰

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01/07/2026

There's way too much of this in mental health!

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In 1973, eight mentally healthy people walked into psychiatric hospitals—and exposed a truth that shook modern medicine.
The experiment was led by psychologist David Rosenhan, who asked a question no one had seriously tested before:
Can mental health professionals truly distinguish sanity from mental illness?
To find out, Rosenhan recruited eight ordinary individuals—a doctor, a psychiatrist, a painter, a graduate student, and a homemaker. All were mentally sound. Their instructions were simple: present themselves at psychiatric hospitals and report hearing vague voices saying words like “empty,” “hollow,” and “thud.”
That was all.
Every one of them was admitted.
Once inside, the participants stopped pretending. They behaved normally, spoke clearly, and told staff the voices had disappeared. They cooperated, socialized, and followed every rule.
It made no difference.
From that point on, everything they did was interpreted through a single label: mentally ill.
Taking notes became “compulsive writing.”
Waiting near the nurses’ station became “attention-seeking behavior.”
Politeness became “appropriate affect within illness.”
Seven were diagnosed with schizophrenia. One with manic-depressive psychosis. Not a single diagnosis was reconsidered.
The average hospital stay lasted 19 days. One participant remained hospitalized for 52 days—not because of symptoms, but because the system had already decided who they were.
The most unsettling part wasn’t the misdiagnosis.
It was the certainty.
Doctors never questioned themselves. Patient charts filled with confident clinical language. Ordinary human behavior disappeared beneath diagnostic assumptions.
Yet real patients noticed immediately.
“You’re not crazy.”
“You don’t belong here.”
“You’re a journalist, right?”
Not one staff member identified a pseudopatient as sane.
Dozens of actual patients did.
When Rosenhan published “On Being Sane in Insane Places,” the psychiatric community erupted. One hospital challenged him to send more fake patients, confident they would detect them.
Over three months, the hospital proudly identified 41 impostors.
Rosenhan had sent none.
The study triggered major reforms in psychiatric diagnosis and revealed something far larger than a flaw in medicine: how labels override evidence, how institutions stop seeing individuals, and how certainty replaces curiosity once authority takes hold.
In 1973, eight sane people entered psychiatric hospitals.
They left carrying a truth that changed mental health care forever.
Sometimes the most dangerous delusion isn’t held by patients—but by systems convinced they can never be wrong.
If you want, I can also make this shorter for social media, more academic, or more dramatic for narration.

11/20/2025

This! Seek understanding and growth without shame or guilt!

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