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View ArticleHow The Phrase, “What’s Wrong with You?” Can Harm Children
What’s wrong with saying the phrase “What Is Wrong with You?” to children or adolescents? Nothing, if your tone is compassion and you are wondering if they want to share their feelings with you. But...
View ArticleUsing Art to 'Touch' Someone in a Juvenile Detention Center
Guest blogger and artist Elise Lunsford describes a unique and creative approach to promote reconnection and healing with a difficult client in a juvenile detention facility. In forensic settings,...
View ArticleSpeech Therapy Out of the Box
Young children need to be taught language and social skills “outside the box”. What do I mean? Children who receive speech therapy at school are usually seen in a “box”, that is, an office. In my...
View ArticleDisplaced, Replaced, Erased
Of all of the possible experiences people endure when they are abandoned in love, rejection is probably the most painful.
View ArticleReflections on Therapeutic Mastery, Part 1
Reflections on therapeutic mastery from an existential-humanistic point of view.
View ArticleGot Happiness? If Not, Try What Slough Did
What is unique about the Making Slough Happy experiment is that it is the first (and so far the only) study of a community in which a significant number of participants have consistently engaged in...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Really Listen to Someone?
Psychoanalysts learn to listen in our training – it is quite possibly one of the most important things we do in our work. Yet one of the ongoing themes of a conference on "The Art of Listening" is not...
View ArticleHow to Escape the Drama Going On in Our Own Heads
It's often when caught up in life's to-do list that we get caught up in our own mental interpretation of what's going on in the world around us—and then make it all about us, when in fact, it has...
View ArticleEmbracing the Fear at the Heart of Depression
Depression can make you tumble and fall as well as climb and grow.
View ArticleBrain Trauma Can Cause Compulsive Sexual Desires
Brain trauma more often causes a decrease in libido. However, sometimes it causes an increase in libido, as in the case of Alissa, a 23-year-old who suffered a car accident, and Heather, a 43-year-old...
View Article5 Ways to Motivate and Encourage Seniors
Caring for, and having successful relationships with older adults often require unique interpersonal skills and strategies.
View ArticleHow the Menstrual Cycle Affects Women's Libido
Unlike dogs and cats, women don't experience "heat," but studies show a libido spike around ovulation.
View ArticleGrief, Loneliness, and Losing a Spouse
Sooner or later, every married couple will face the prospect of their relationship coming to an end, whether due to death or divorce. For those people dealing with the loss of a spouse, overcoming...
View Article11 Ways to Help a Friend With Bipolar Disorder
Those diagnosed with bipolar disorder may be at the mercy of extreme mood swings, but they are not powerless. Medication, therapy and a healthy lifestyle can help them enjoy full and productive lives,...
View ArticleTo Fix or to Build?
People prone to irrelationship commonly make projects of fixing other people’s problems in much the way some people are drawn to the challenge of rescuing a foundering business. However, while saving a...
View ArticleAn Uncommon Piece of Relationship Advice
Is your fear of being alone killing your relationships?
View ArticleStudy Finds People with ADHD More Likely to Die Prematurely
The findings of this study can be anxiety-provoking for anyone touched by AD/HD. But the answer may be as simple as effective treatment.
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