Germanwings Flight 9525: Scared to Fly, Again?
Don't let the crash in the Alps make your flying phobia resurface.
View ArticleDr. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann: Creativity in Psychotherapy
Treatment of psychotic patients is very difficult and many practitioners believe that it is impossible to employ psychotherapy ef with such patients. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was a courageous and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Transgender Reality
In February, at the annual International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) symposium, I was honored to hear Ryan Sallans, an international speaker, transgender man and author of...
View ArticleLooking for a Partner? The Four Buckets, Part 2
Look for like or love in a different way.
View ArticleTweeting As Therapy
A lot of therapy focuses on "what's wrong with you?" but eventually graduates to what's up with us?," an embrace of the human condition in all its details. One way to play with "what's up with us?" is...
View ArticleYour Childhood And Your Child
The process of making connections between the past and the present is very important to family relationships.
View ArticleDetox From Negative News In The Media
Feeling weighed down by all the negative news in the media? Here's how to detox from the influx of negative events and news in the media.
View ArticleChanging the ‘No Casserole’ Response to Mental Illness
A mother of two who is active in the International Bipolar Foundation shared a story the other day. When her youngest daughter was diagnosed with diabetes, friends called, sent cards and flowers,...
View ArticleThe Discipline of Marriage: Advice from Long Relationships
Despite dire media reports, most young people want to get married - and stay married for life. A study of long-married elders offers advice on the role of commitment throughout a long relationship.
View ArticleNo Substitute for “Real” Relationships
Studies confirm that things, money, material riches are not the solution to human longing. Despite unprecedented affluence, health care, and technological advances, few--even among the best off...
View ArticleFear and the Fear of Fear
There are often two levels to our negative feelings, such as fear. Not only do we fear things, but we fear our fearful responses. This "affect phobia" is at the root of many emotional problems.
View ArticleLife is a Like a Metaphor
When you stand alone like scraps of paper instead of “high-piled books” on Keats’s “shore of the wide world,” and love and fame “to nothingness do sink,” it might help to recognize that your current...
View ArticlePosttraumatic Growth in Northern Ireland
Little is known about post traumatic growth in conflict situations
View ArticleDon't Let Anxiety Hold You Back From Living Your Dreams
Are anxiety and excessive caution getting in your way and stopping you from living a more meaningful and fulfilling life. Avoidance feeds on itself and makes you less confident, while getting started...
View ArticleMisdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, Part II
A case study illustrating comorbidity and distinctions between bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and attention deficit disorder.
View ArticleFear the Future
In our modern world, anxiety is a burden to many. In our past, however, it may have been the difference between life and death.
View ArticleBack in the Swim
Ambivalent about permission to move on with her life after early widowhood, Angie has spent three years going through classic stages of grieving. As a widow, I understand and help her to free her...
View ArticleChanges in the Family: Impact on Sexual Development
In modern times, the family unit has been dramatically reconstructed. Regardless of the family’s formation, the behaviors observed by children of both single and two-parent families significantly...
View ArticleA Better Way to Prevent Rampage Killings
To protect their children from a student who wrote a violent novel that describes how he kills them, parents at Tidwell Middle School are demonstrating to have him expelled from school. If anything,...
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