Intimate, Free and Safe: A Holiday Season Wish
In business they say the two human drivers are fear and greed. I'd invert them. We crave safety and freedom, both of which are celebrated and negotiated at close range during the holidays, negotiated...
View Article4 Ways to Experience Authentic Engagement
To live a full life, both in breadth and depth, we need to engage in a number of ways. This can be challenging as well as rewarding.read more
View Article5 Mind Tricks to Help Keep Your Resolutions
Many of us think about what we want to accomplish at the beginning of a New Year. At the same time, we also know that most New Year resolutions don’t stick. What are some effective ways to succeed?...
View ArticleThe Myth of Independence
Independence just means that your dependence on others is kept hidden.read more
View ArticleWhen Impulses Rule a Child's Life
The number of American children being medicated for ADHD has risen from 600,000 in 1990 to 3.5 million today. Neurofeedback offers a possible alternative treatment. But in many instances, their...
View ArticleUnderstanding Dissociative Identity Disorder in Children
What is it like when a child has dissociative identity disorder?read more
View ArticleThree Things To Do By December 31st
If you’ve ever wondered why you are where you are in your life, it may be helpful to realize that external circumstances as well as personal choices put you there. Do these three things to help you get...
View ArticleMisunderstandings of Aggression
In my childhood, most boys learned to settle their differences with fists, and this led to settling differences with debate. Most girls were punished for using fists (“unladylike”), and this led to...
View ArticlePsychotherapy Appointment Time
When is the best time of day for therapy? Is your therapy dollar better spent morning, noon, or night? Or is it about something other than the clock?read more
View ArticleHappiness With Others 2: Take Nothing Personal
Living with and among others is never easy. It will inevitably bring you slights, insults, and other offenses. Learn in this blog how to increase your happiness quotient by eliminating all hurt,...
View ArticleHow Therapy Uses Object Relations To Quell Anxiety
Various forms of therapy seem so different in theory and practice. How, then, do they produce such similar results? Could relationship be the common curative factor?read more
View ArticleLaughter in Therapy
Laugh away in your therapy sessions, but ask yourself if you’re laughing to avoid your issues or laughing your way through them.read more
View ArticleNew Years and Alcohol
Will power is not the factor that determines whether or not a resolution succeeds or fails. The determining factors are planning, setting doable goals, getting support, and utilizing evidence-based...
View ArticleThe Baby and the Bathwater in Freudian Thought
Separating the psychodynamic baby from the psychoanalytic bathwater.read more
View ArticleThe Mental Health Guessing Guide
If mental health provision amounts to "educated guesses," don't we need a mental health guessing guide?read more
View ArticleManhattan Transference: Number 1
Who do you think you are? Therapist countertransference read more
View ArticleRewiring Yourself and Others
My guest blogger teaches conflict-resolution in a prison. She calls herself a "resolutionist" because she sees New Years resolutions as a fun way to rewire yourself. Everyone can wire in new responses...
View ArticleDr. Snoopy: Including Pets in Psychological Treatments
Pet therapy used to help those with physical, social and emotional difficultiesread more
View ArticleResolutions, Commitments, And All That Jazz
Why do we fail to keep our resolutions and commitments? Simply put, they are often authored by our egos and not our deeper selves. Here's some common wisdom that may not be helping along with a deeper...
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