Why Your Therapist Should Go "Back To The Future"
A key insight of a group of psychoanalytic pioneers in the 1930s - early 1950s has been ignored in the decades since then. Yet that insight is highly relevant to helping the kinds of emotional...
View ArticleEmbracing Our Imperfect Life
Embracing Our Imperfect Life. Listening to Leonard Cohen and learning to relish defeat. In my car on a sunny Vermont winter morning, I am listening to Leonard Cohen sing his view of reality: He says...
View Article12 Empowering and Uplifting Quotes on Diversity & Inclusion
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here is a collection of empowering and uplifting quotes on diversity and inclusion. Hope you enjoy!read more
View ArticleThe Distinctions Between ♂ and ♀ Inmates in Art Therapy
Do male and female inmates respond differently to the art therapy process? Recent research indicates this is so. This post examines these potential differences, speculating how and why these...
View ArticleHas "Girls" Cured OCD?
In HBO’s Girls, I believe Lena Dunham has come closer than anyone in popular culture to showing the pain and black comedy of long-term OCD treatment. But if the show wants to honor the character’s...
View ArticleThree Keys to Unlock the Meaning of Your Dreams
What are your dreams telling you? How can you understand their meaning? In my years of teaching people about dreams, I have found three keys to help unlock their wisdom and counsel. read more
View ArticlePeyton Manning and the Power of Plasticity
Neuroplasticity can be influenced by our history of training and our current efforts. An active lifestyle is a kind of “neurological insurance policy” we pay into every time we learn or practice an...
View ArticleHow to Get Off Marijuana
How to get off marijuana and deal with the depression that follows: Steps to take that will make it easier. read more
View ArticleGetting Your Child the Help They Need
Many parents don't know where to turn when their child is facing mental health issues. As a parent, nothing is more difficult than watching your child struggle. Understanding how, when and where to...
View ArticleIs Psychoanalysis Dead Or Alive? Part One
As a practicing psychoanalyst and a true believer, I wish I could make an open-and-shut case that psychoanalysis is very much alive in 2014. But that would not be the whole story.read more
View ArticleManhattan Transference Part 4
How can group therapy help make the unconscious conscious?read more
View ArticleHey, Justin Bieber, Call Me. I Can Help.
I wish I could help Justin see that the best way to feel happy is to make a genuine contribution to someone else’s happiness. I wonder what he'd say if he got my offer?read more
View ArticleIs addiction a "biopsychosocial" phenomenon?
Being polite is great, but has no place in understanding addiction.read more
View ArticleTraining for a Career as a Clinical Neuropsychologist
In response to many e-mail queries from students I have put together some general suggestions (relevant to all countries) on how to decide if clinical neuropsychology is really the career for you, and...
View ArticleFor Your Eyes Only
Many of us have had unintentional voyeuristic experiences such as walking into our parent's bedroom - or in on friends at parties - while they are having sex. How might these experiences affect us?...
View ArticleEvidence-Based Practice: The Misunderstandings Continue
The concept of evidence-based practice has been widely misunderstood. A new, widely distributed essay perpetuates still more misconceptions about the role of science in the selection and evaluation of...
View ArticlePediatric Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD) & Tics
Most people may not have heard of PANDAS or PANS. I will tell you about PANDAS, because that is the illness about which I am most familiar with clinically. Some researchers say it does not exist....
View ArticleMy Sexy Valentine
Why has your sexual energy become so weak? This Valentine's Day do something to wake up all your erotic triggers! Answer 6 simple questions to take your erotic temperature and gain guidance on reviving...
View ArticleDo Patients Avoid Psychiatrists for Fear of Legal Holds?
Do psychiatrists scare away patients because we have the power to commit them? If so, what contributes to this fear? It's not as simple as it first appears.read more
View ArticleOverprescribing Drugs to Treat Mental Health Problems
We should be wary of the increasing trend of treating psychological problems with medications, and in many cases medications without accompanying psychological help and support.read more
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