When “Help” Doesn’t Help, We Need to Notice
When your urge to do good drives you to reward bad behavior, you create more bad behavior. We can be more conscious of our impacts instead of just feeding our own urge to help.read more
View ArticleHow Much Do Psychotherapists Need to Know About the Brain?
The brain-basis of language has been known for more than 100 years. How important is it for psychotherapists to know about the brain, given that emotional communication is central to psychotherapy?read...
View ArticleA New Kind of Acid Test
Research into the medicinal use of psychedelic drugs, ranging from psilocybin to Ketamine, and from MDMA to LSD, has begun to accelerate. Despite the promising results of early studies, and the urgent...
View ArticleHow to Successfully Handle Aggressive and Controlling People
Most of us come across aggressive, intimidating, or controlling personalities at some points in our lives. These individuals may exist in our personal sphere or professional environment. Here are eight...
View ArticleThe Wussification of Psychology Training
Cultural practices imported from kindergarten are designed to teach coloring and the alphabet, but the cultural practices of academia and science are necessary to support the teaching of doctoral-level...
View ArticleConsidering Psychoactive Medication for Your Adolescent
Psychoactive drugs, appropriately prescribed by physicians and responsibly supervised by parents, in conjunction with self-management education, counseling, or therapy, can sometimes help adolescents...
View ArticleDo You Want to Be a Better Communicator?
How to be an active listener and ask questions so people feel heard, not blamed. For providers of all types and anyone else who would like to be more supportive.read more
View ArticleThe End of the Road
Some people who suffer from Major Depressive Disorder do not respond to medications or psychotherapy. They are left with very few options. Is there an opportunity for a "Big Data" solution?read more
View ArticleCarefully Designed Drug Monitoring Programs Help Keep Addict
The field of medicine is being pulled in two directions. On one hand, doctors are becoming more aware of the consequences of pain, leading to the prescription of more and more aggressive pain...
View ArticleHow to avoid bad rehab treatment
The rehabilitation industry in our country is, unfortunately, filled with false claims and bogus treatments. Virtually none of the major rehab centers even study their patients' outcomes, despite...
View ArticleNo Limelight Here: Good Quality Psychotherapy Is Humble Work
The work of tending the mind, heart, and soul of another turns out to be a lot like the humble act of washing someone’s feet.read more
View ArticleHow Animals Help Regulate Mental Health
I speak from experience--my own and my child’s--when I say that sometimes the Fluff Therapist beats the psychotherapist and the psychopharmacologist, hands down. You should retain both of these, of...
View ArticleConscious and Unconscious Regression
When a spouse feels neglected they regress by throwing a tantrum and threatening to take something awayread more
View Article"Out There"
Sarah Stark’s novel, "Out There," contains rich and valuable descriptions of the essential features of emotional trauma in general and of combat-related trauma in particular--the shattering of...
View ArticleThe Neglected Link Among World Crises
From a depth psychological ("awe-based") view, Why are people violent with one another and what steps can we take to address the problem?read more
View ArticleHow Can You Become a Philosophical Counselor?
In the United States, there are two main associations that train philosophical counselors; but their ideas about what philosophical counseling is, and what clients they serve, are really quite...
View ArticleIs So-Called Victim Blaming Always Bad?
Scrupulously avoiding anything that looks like “blaming the victim” can hinder treatment and prevention.read more
View ArticleCareer Counseling ISIS’s Caliph
A thought experiment on a radical way to address radical Islam.read more
View Article10 Warning Signs You're in a Relationship with a Narcissist
Psychologist Stephen Johnson writes that the narcissist is someone who has “buried his true self-expression in response to early injuries and replaced it with a highly developed, compensatory false...
View ArticlePaging Dr. Google
If you constantly go online in search of health information, but end up feeling more anxious as a result, you may want to type "cyberchondria" into the Google box. read more
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