By Gina Simmons, Ph.D. In an old Saturday Night Live skit the character, Stuart Smalley, played by Al Franken, repeats the daily positive affirmation, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggonit people like me.” From Norman Vincent Peale’s 1952 best seller, The Power of Positive Thinking, to Rhonda Byrne’s brilliantly marketed 2006 release of [...]

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by Gina Simmons, Ph.D. Last weekend we attended a youth theater performance of Les Miserables, the musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo. In The People’s Song the chorus sings, “Do you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slaves [...]

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