Just Old
12-year-old Portuguese water dog Whitby Anderson overcomes an initial diagnosis that would have written off his value due to old age. Instead, canine medical specialists sustain both his life and his...
View ArticleIs It Better To Love Or Be Loved?
Who holds the power in your relationship? An unequal balance of power in relationships fosters inauthenticityread more
View ArticleThe Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“How can I help?” asks Stephen Grosz as he receives a new patient in his psychoanalytic office in London. The subjects unearthed for the reader include envy, loss, hate, boredom, winning (as losing),...
View ArticleCausal Landscape 2.0
The Causal Landscape is a method for highlighting the causes worth addressing, avoiding simplistic single-cause explanations as well as overly complicated and exhaustive explanations. This expansion of...
View ArticleCompassionate Mourning
Alisa uses new emotional coping skills in her breakup after one week, by choosing to have loving compassion for the man who left her rather than demonizing him or hating herself.read more
View ArticleNature's Method Is Our Madness
How our available personality is limited by evolutionary processesread more
View Article"Evidence-Based" Psychiatry Is Evidence in Name Only
I completely agree that we need good science for psychotherapy and neuroscience. In truth, we need good science for psychiatry as a whole. We need good science. But "Evidence-based" psychiatry is...
View ArticleStress: Factors and Coping Skills
Everyone experiences some level of stress. Stress may be short-term or long-term and cause difficulties with your physical health. Many individuals from ethnic minority groups experience significant...
View ArticleDon’t Leave Me Alone With My Thoughts!
Alone time is important. The space between action and ongoing thoughts is where creative ideas are born. It’s where you may have a chance to see something about yourself you didn’t realize before, you...
View ArticlePsychoanalysis Meets the Largest Meet-up Group in the World
Is anyone really interested in what psychoanalysts have to say?read more
View ArticleDying For It
Arguably, most people’s perceptions of "near death addiction" are probably based on the 1990 US film "Flatliners." This Hollywood portrayal of possible "near death addiction" bears little resemblance...
View ArticleDr. Melfi and Me
What does a therapist do when a patient is about to reveal a mob secret?read more
View ArticleThe Colorful Modern History of Gay Conversion Therapy
Two linked stories, one of the hysteria epidemic in Europe in the late 1800s, and the other of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis of his own daughter, offer a history of and a few lessons about gay...
View ArticleRemnants of a Life on Paper - A Book Review
If you are looking for reasons to believe in God, they abound in this book. If you are looking for reasons not to believe in God, they abound in this book.read more
View ArticleHow Self-Sufficient Are You?
What is Self-Sufficiency in a psychological sense? Is it an important factor in well-being? Help me find out by filling out this short questionnaire.read more
View ArticleThe Frame, Part 4 (Privacy)
The public health problem is not just identifying and providing services to potential mass killers; it’s how to provide services that would actually induce a shooter to share his thoughts.read more
View ArticleRevisiting Tarasoff
Are laws based on the 1976 Tarasoff decision needed to protect life? In a 2013 presidential Address by Donald N. Bersoff of Drexel University (who was then-president of the American Psychological...
View ArticleAre You Pigeonholing Yourself Into a Rut?
Sometimes the hardest trap to break free from is the one you've built for yourself. Our quick, easy, automatic, and overly simplistic labels can hold us back in work, love, and play. The scary part is...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Litigious People and Frivolous Lawsuits
Modern society is often criticized as becoming increasingly litigious. Learn what to do the next time someone threatens to "see you in court."read more
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