The Art of Art Therapy Shapeshifting
Shapeshifting, also known as transmorgrification and transformation, is found throughout the realms of myth and folklore. Art therapy, a field that embraces the symbolic world and the process of...
View ArticleLove your Boss
Can we learn from the psychology of relationships research how to get on much better with our boss? After all she or he can have a very significant effect on your life. It is certainly better to have...
View ArticleIf You Tend to Get Scattered, Check for Adult ADD/ADHD
Children with attention deficits tend to be recognized by parents, pediatricians and teachers. Adult ADD sufferers by contrast often go undiagnosed. Yet adult ADD can destroy relationships at home and...
View ArticleGender Pathology
If we constructed a society in which life’s roles were as bifurcated by ear lobes as they are in our culture by genitals, then the first thing parents and grandparents would want to know at birth would...
View ArticleHelping Teenagers who Live in Dysfunctional Families- Part 1
As teens forge trusting and safe therapeutic relationships with us, opening up and disclosing their deepest thoughts and feelings, we know that after the session they are often returning to...
View ArticleHealing Corporate Couples
A corporate couple are two people who put their relationship above all others. A psychobiological approach can help these couples in many of the same ways it helps those in romantic relationships.
View ArticleThe Anti-Psychiatry Movement
The 1960s and 1970s saw the growth of the Anti-Psychiatry movement. What was that all about? Where do we stand on some of these issues today?
View ArticleTai Chi in the VA
Dr. Roger Jahnke has been training instructors throughout the VA in a version of the ancient Asian discipline that he calls Tai Chi Easy. It accommodates all vets, including the disabled, by allowing...
View ArticleHomosexuality is Not an Addiction
Clinicians and programs who provide conversion or gay reparative therapies are now using a new treatment justification, claiming that homosexuality is an addictive disorder.
View ArticleWhat is a "Clean" Breakup and How to Achieve One
Letting go can be so painful that it's easier to create drama and/or necessitate a fight rather than part ways on amicable terms.
View ArticleHelping People Find Their Way
The therapist’s job in MOL is to keep clients’ attention on the problem until they find their way home.
View ArticleHow to Stop Intimacy Harming, Negative Emotional Language
Negative emotional language tends to be damaging to relationships because it conveys messages of strong disapproval and criticism. Here is how to recognize it, and switch it to level headed,...
View ArticleVanishing Twin Syndrome: Your Intuition May Be Right
Intuitions can lead you to surprising discoveries. Trust them, and go find out more....including if you have a hunch that you may once have had a long-lost twin.
View Article5 Tweaks to CBT
Psychotherapy depends on the client messing up the therapy like they mess up their other relationships.
View ArticleFake Your Way to Happiness
The idea that our identities are not set in stone but novels in the making is exhilarating. It grants us freedom, especially if we are depressed, to create a more vital character.
View ArticleAfter the Happily Ever After
Falling in love is often easier than staying in love, but few of us understand why or how to change that. This post outlines my work with a couple on the brink of calling it quits, feeling there is no...
View ArticleHelping Teenagers who Live in Dysfunctional Families: Part 2
Despite this very real challenge that within dysfunctional families, the fact that parents might be uncooperative or uninvolved in their teenager's treatment, there are issues worth focusing on and...
View ArticleA Contrast to Psychiatry: The ‘Hearing Voices’ Movement
Those opposed to classical psychiatric models claim that hearing voices may be a normal part of the human experience and that the diagnosis of schizophrenia may be unfounded.
View ArticleTo Screen or Not To Screen?
Should we keep screens away from kids? Or give them full access and let them work it out? Is there a middle ground?
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