When someone you care about is hiding an eating disorder
Alice,* a tall, attractive and smart young woman, came to therapy for help with a severe depression. After she began to feel better, she stayed on to work on some of the issues that had caused the...
View ArticleWhat You Don't Know about This Personality Test Can Hurt You
Just think how useful it would be to have an instant read on your true personality type. You’d know best how to capitalize on your strengths in every area from relationships to success at work. Just...
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Resolutions, Commitments, And All That Jazz
Here’s my confession: I am a depth psychologist. That means that dreams, the unconscious, the mystery, the unintended - the psyche and soul - is what animates me and informs my perspective. As such I...
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Asthmatic Personality
I've had asthma ever since I was a child, and fortunately as I entered my adult years the severity of its onsets have reduced. Most people know that asthma results in a shortness of breath, but there...
View ArticleStop Expecting Misery and Learn To Make Room for Happiness
We were a don’t-count-your-chickens kind of family.We never made elaborate plans for good things — graduations, births, or weddings — because we were never really convinced that good things would...
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Israel, Palestine, Home, Me – Part II
I know that Israel is home, even after 30 years, because when I landed, exhausted and disoriented by the bitter cold and fury of the worst storm in decades, all I wanted was to go eat the food every...
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Why Knowing Keeps Us Dumb
“We live in a mass culture obsessed with the need to know at a time of such instability and unpredictability that knowing is of little good.”That is from a book I’m currently writing, entitled The...
View ArticlePsychotherapy is Much Simpler Than You Might Think
How does therapy really work? Depending on your school of thought, it has something to do with insight, identifying feelings, changing thought patterns, experimenting with new behavior, feeling...
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Reading Fiction Improves Brain Connectivity and Function
Neuroscientists have discovered that reading a novel can improve brain function on a variety of levels. The recent study on the brain benefits of reading fiction was conducted at Emory University. The...
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Beware the Regression Fallacy
With the National Football League (NFL) regular season now over, sports fans once again bore witness to the morbid annual ritual called “Black Monday,” in which the head coaches of losing teams are...
View ArticleLaughter is Good Medicine
Laugh.Go ahead, just laugh.It is good for you, from the proclamations of the followers of laughing yoga to the smiles on the faces of patients visited by clowns or dogs at the hospital, laughter seems...
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Study Confirms What Wives Know: Dogs More Comfort Than Men
One of the many reasons I adore my wasband is that he starts so many sentences with: “So, it turns out you were right about …”He recently called to say it turns out I was right on two counts: the...
View ArticleWhat Do Santa and Ads Have in Common? Kids Believe in Both.
One of the more controversial areas of advertising is that targeting children. What’s the source of this controversy? Well, critics say it’s exploitative and even harmful. They say it takes...
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Indiana: Where It’s Always Later Than You Think!
Quick: Which town is closer to Indianapolis—Chicago? Or Bangor, Maine? A glance at a map would tell you the answer is Chicago. But if you go by the clock on the wall, Indianapolis, like practically all...
View ArticleConsciousness Explained
Whenever I read Darwinians and atheists, I find myself in agreement with their arguments. As Galileo liked to quote, the role of religion should be to determine how to go to heaven and not how the...
View ArticleKeeping Change in Check
As each January begins, scores of New Year’s resolutions are made. And broken. It’s important for all of us to be happy, healthy, wealthy (at least in spirit), and wise, but planning to make too many...
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Diving Deep into the Brain
As regular readers of this blog will have noticed, I’ve been away a little over a month: that’s because I’ve been getting my brain adjusted at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, about which I cannot say...
View ArticleHow to Put Your Sexual Fights to Bed!
I'll bet you'll never forget the early days when you first got together.You couldn’t get enough of each other. And your sex life was enough to put rabbits in heat to shame!But then real life kicked...
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It’s a New Year…Time to Assess Your Relationship
As we start 2014, it is important to assess our relationships. Intimate partners impact our well being in a tremendous way. It’s essential that these relations are healthy and satisfying. In this...
View ArticleFriendship: When No Response is a Response
QUESTION H Irene,I have been close friends with a woman for many years. More recently, I developed a friendship with her daughter as well. Now, I'm the kind of guy who will do anything for a friend. I...
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