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Jun 2018
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Trailer- Picture This!

PSYCH ESSENTIALS
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Check out the “trailer” for our upcoming new miniseries “Picture This.” There are tons of movies, songs, books, and other media that talk about mental health. We are going to discuss and analyze some of them from a psychiatric perspective. First up is 13 Reasons Why, a TV miniseries made by Netflix based on a […] 
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