Happy Birthday, ADA!
Expectant mothers risk losing their jobs, their babies, or both when employers deny them pregnancy accommodations at work - accommodations as modest as the right to carry a water bottle due to...
View ArticleSummer Advice for Grandparents
Spending time with your grandchildren and not sure how to relate? Here’s a list of 10 things grandparents can do to improve their relationships and have fun with the young people in their lives. 1)...
View ArticleAddicts: Just Like Us
Kristen Johnston, former star of Third Rock From the Sun, current star of The Exes and New York Times-bestselling author of the excellent addiction memoir Guts, is never one to wallflower. And her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
For Better or Worse Until...
Who would have ever thought that six harmless words could lead to so much disappointment? Just think of the number of times that you were told stores that involved two lovers who after rising above...
View ArticleA True Story--But Very Strange
(I have followed my usual practice in this post of disguising the patient)There was a time a number of years ago when I had the occasion to treat just the sort of patient therapists like to work with,...
View ArticleBOTOX LEADERSHIP: Beware When a Toxic Boss Rules
BOTOX LEADERSHIPBeware When A Toxic Boss RulesDr. Alan Goldman Toxic bosses emanate. Their poison spreads out into every inch of the workplace. A case in point is Mr. Angel Pettigrew. He...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rituals: Connecting People Together
Years ago, I decided to take a belly dancing class because I found the music and movements enchanting. The class exceeded my expectations. It provided so much more than a step-by-step guide on hip...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Murder Mentors for Copycat Killers
A foul odor in East Cleveland led police last Friday to a dead body … and to Michael Madison, a 35-year-old convicted sex offender. Then there were two more bodies wrapped in plastic trash bags before...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Victim Blame: A Difficult Attitude to Change
-- Reposted from the online magazine, "The Trauma & Mental Health Report"The tendency to view victims as responsible for the violent acts perpetrated against them, is still commonplace, especially...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three Keys to Unlocking Great Insights
Insights are unexpected shifts in the way we understand how things work. We can’t plan for insights but we can still increase our chances for gaining them. One tactic is to exploit anomalies. For...
View ArticlePorn, EEGs and the End of Sex Addiction?
A considerable amount of interest has been generated by recent media coverage of an article by Steele, Staley, Fong and Prause (2013) from the most recent issue of Socioaffective Neuroscience &...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Misinformed Media Touts Bogus Sex Addiction Study
By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S and Stefanie Carnes PhD, CSAT-SIn a nationally distributed study published last week, a group of researchers argued that what is often termed as “sexual addiction” could be...
View ArticleMisinterpreting Science
We see them discussed on the evening news shows, a new one almost every week, the latest clinical study showing that a cure for cancer is near. Such clinical trials are scientific experiments, guided...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creative Bliss for Introverts, Part 3
In the first and second parts of this interview with David Goldstein, author of Creative You with Otto Kroeger, we discussed everything from ideal work environments for introverts to how introverts and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Emotional First Aid
Dealing with failure, rejection, guilt, and other common mental injuries. By Guy Winch
View ArticleWhy Political Spouses – & All Spouses – Know Less Than We Do
In the spectacle that was the Anthony Weiner “yes, I sexted my crotch still again” press conference, his wife Huma Abedin was supposed to be a sympathetic character. Her belief in her husband, despite...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BDSM, Personality and Mental Health
A recent study on the psychological profile of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism-masochism) practitioners has attracted a great deal of media attention, with headlines proclaiming that “S&M...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intimate and inanimate
Object sexuality refers to those individuals who develop deep emotional and/or romantic attachments to (and have relationships with) specific inanimate objects or structures. Such objectophiles express...
View ArticleWe are not determined by early experiences
The idea that infant experiences are more important than experiences later in life in determining who we are dominates policy discussions on both sides of the Atlantic. Earlier this year, for example,...
View Article