Struggling in the Trenches
I gave a talk the other day to a group of GP/psychotherapists. They’re the closest to the old time family doctor that it gets. They look after their patients’ medical needs and at the same time offer...
View ArticleLearned Worthlessness
Colleen’s father let his opinion be known early and often that she’d never amount to much. No matter what Colleen accomplished in life, it was never enough.If she did well in school, she still wasn’t...
View ArticleWill You Give the Perfect Gift This Christmas?
This season many of us will spend a good deal of money in pursuit of the perfect Christmas present for friends and loved ones. The total cost of Christmas gifting has been estimated at 3-4% of people’s...
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Rituals of Absolution: "Go and Sin No More?"
Rituals of purification or moral cleansing are common in many religious traditions. For example, ritual washing before prayer, public worship, (re)inclusion, or other religious activities is present in...
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Cougar Sex
David M Buss has been writing about older women’s sexual adventures for some time. He notes in “Why Women Have Sex” that women use sex as a defensive tactic against a mate’s infidelity (protection), as...
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Introvert Stew
Personality is a complicated slumgullion of traits, developmental doodads (to use the technical term) and learned behaviors. We're a dash of this, a pinch of that, a cup or two of the other thing. Plus...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean To Be A Saver?
Are you a spender or a saver? Don’t fret if you don’t have an immediate response – there is noshortage of online quizzes designed to help you answer this question. There are even maps that help us...
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Locker Room Bullying: Could It Be A “Laughing Matter"?
In his previous guest blog post, “Bullying in the NFL: Are Pro Football Players ‘Mean Girls’?”, Dr. Patrick Stewart talked about how men sometimes use aggressive social behavior to sort out dominance...
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Does Sex Make Teens Depressed?
Dear Dr. G., I am scared to death. I recently found out that myteenage daughter who is 15 is "hooking up" with boys andhaving sex. I don't think she is having sex like intercoursewith all of them but...
View ArticleDogs Are Good For Your Health
Dogs are good for your health. Many studies have been conducted examining the relationship between pet ownership and human health. Pet ownership has physiological, psychological, and social advantages....
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What's Wrong with the Concept of Schizophrenia?
Which illness frightens you most? Cancer? Stroke? Dementia? To judge from tabloid newspaper coverage, the condition we should really fear isn't physical at all. "Scared of mum's schizophrenic attacks",...
View ArticleViolence in Movies: More, Bigger—Worse
Films are getting more violent—more than twice as violent as they were in 1950. That’s perhaps no surprise. But new evidence has revealed that the most violent films are actually the ones aimed right...
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Where was Daddy?
The family with a narcissistic mother operates according to an unspoken set of rules. Children learn to live with those rules, but they never stop being confused and pained by them, for these rules...
View ArticleEating Disorders in Overweight Teens: Unintended Consequeces
Childhood obesity rates are decreasing among preschoolers and plateauing among adults, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. But does America’s war on obesity have a dark side? With...
View ArticleOffice Plants!
Although plants are plentiful in workplaces, are they worth the time and effort required to keep them green and healthy? Now that plant-killing frosts have blanketed much of North America, work by...
View ArticleLean In or Fall Over?
In 2003 Lisa Belkin created quite a stir reporting in the New York Times on women in the upper reaches of corporate life who were leaving the workplace to stay home to take care of their families....
View ArticleSex and Food
My sweetie and I had an extraordinary evening recently. I was invited to a dinner in a San Franciscan restaurant unknown to me to be hosted by a PR company promoting olives from Spain. Every course...
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4 Keys to Harnessing the Power of Teams
Thanksigiving BreakBefore getting into today’s exciting topic, let me just let you know that I got invited to England (leaving tomorrow) to the University of Birmingham to present my research on...
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Love and Isolation
“8 Habits of Love” is a book by the Reverend Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints Church, Pasadena, California, where I am a member. I don’t consider myself a total Christian, since I have not accepted the...
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