A Visit to the Psychiatric Hospital Made Me Sick
Our psychiatric inpatient care system is insufficient and often detructive. But the inpatient population is not a wealthy, vocal, or well-organized pressure group. In our current cultural moment,...
View ArticleBalancing Inhibition and Exhibition
The desire to keep your spark, your life-force, intact, will always have to contend with agents of decay and distraction. All the forces of resistance and inhibition, from within and without, that can...
View ArticleHappiness With Life 6: Serve Yourself a Slice of Happiness
I don't care how physicists define time. Time, to me, is choice. This blog, Serve Yourself a Slice of Happiness, provides the mindsets and strategies to choose pleasure each and every day of our lives.
View ArticleThe Scientific Case for Owning Up to Your Porn Use
Many people believe that porn use should be hidden from a relationship partner. However, a new study suggests that when women think their partners are honest about their porn use, they tend to be...
View ArticleHow Are You Dancing With Life?
We think life is static, but in reality, it is always in movement. If we are open to that movement, we discover who we are and who we are becoming.
View ArticleCarl Rogers' Person-Centered Approach
Is non-directive therapy the same as client-centered therapy?
View ArticleMourning – Death, Loss, Trauma, and Psychotherapy
Mourning is the process by which we heal from grief. I’ve heard people say, “What’s the point of grieving, you can’t bring a loved one back from the dead.” That of course, is true, but it is what...
View Article42 Signs that You are a Narcissist
Discover your degree of self-centeredness with these 42 signs indicating narcissism.
View ArticleFeeling Paranoid?
Paranoid fears are common and have a variety of causes but new research shows specific issue cognitive behaviour therapy can bring significant benefits
View ArticlePsychosis Sucks!
Does the British Psychological Society's recently published monograph called "Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia" dangerously romanticize mental illness? Here's why psychiatrists say yes.
View ArticleThe Truth about Pain Relief
Opioids are pain medications including morphine, codeine, oxycodone, methadone, fentanyl or hydrocodone.
View ArticleDoing Less to Conquer Your Fear
Therapists should avoid distraction during exposure treatment for OCD.
View ArticleFeeling No Pain in America
Emotions are meant to be felt and expressed, not viewed as signs of disease.
View Article5 Key Tips for Finding Happiness at Work
Five key findings from the VIA Institute about bringing character strengths to work, including grow more from using your strengths rather than improving your weaknesses; connect character strengths...
View ArticleGrowing Up Without Therapy
Now and then I have met someone who seems to have grown up, without therapy, into a relatively balanced, contented person, little encumbered by internal conflicts. As a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist,...
View Article3 Major Warning Signs of Relationship Trouble
Most of us want to meet and settle down with the “right” person, and most of us want such a relationship to last. Yet, 53% of marriages in the U.S., 48% in Canada, 47% in the U.K., and 43% in Australia...
View ArticleCreativity and Mental Illness
Creating and creativity are healthy processes in contradiction to contentions such as those of Kay Jamison and Nancy Andreasen and others who have carried out weak research purportedly showing...
View ArticleHealing the Wounded Heart
Karen, a psychiatric nurse, connects her personal insecurity with the early loss of her Mother. As her therapist, I decide to self disclose that I became a young widow, and I understand. Together, we...
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