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Why Lasting Love Eludes You
Slim of waist, dark curls framing her dimpled face, Stephanie sighed, “I almost gave up on finding real love. That’s not to say that I haven’t been in romantic relationships, I have, but love didn’t...
View ArticleTossing “Major Depression” Over the Side
Psychiatry hasn’t seen anything like this since the ridiculing of psychoanalysis began in the 1970s that was to lead to the replacement of Freud with neuroscience. Key pieces of belief in the field...
View ArticleYou Can Lead, But Are You a Good Follower?
There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that focus on developing your leadership. But what about your followership? No matter what position we hold in an organization, we will do more...
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Crisis or Crisis Mongering?
In a series of recent blogs, I have written about what I have come to call the college student mental health crisis (CSMHC; see here, here, and here). Importantly, not everyone agrees with this...
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Seven Types of Self-Care Activities for Coping with Stress
When we’re stressed, self-care is often the first thing to go. Why is this?1. Our brains go into fight-or-flight mode and our perspective narrows. We don’t see we have options—options for coping with...
View Article'Not Cancer' Offers 'Near-Life Experience' - So, Now What?
A friend's recent reaction to that awful but interesting medical purgatory - the time we've all spent waiting for test results - got me thinking about the amnesia we tend to get after the not-cancer...
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Blaming Porn for Bad Sex
You can’t turn around these days without hearing claims that porn is teaching men to behave like oafs in bed. Aside from the hyperbolic claims that porn turns men into rapists or pedophiles, there is a...
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What If You've Made Mistakes As a Parent?
"Dr Laura....I only found Aha! Parenting a month ago. Already things have improved so much with my kids and I no longer act like a crazy person when I get frustrated with them. But I keep wondering if...
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Don't Get Hijacked -- Take the High Road!
"You may become flooded by feelings such as fear, sadness or rage. These intense emotions can lead you to have a knee-jerk reaction instead of thoughtful responses. When emotional reactions replace...
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Childhood advertising and the unconscious mind
Savvy marketers have always had a knack for using psychology to sell products.Faced with lagging sales in the 1950s, the makers of Betty Crocker’s cake mix famously turned to psychoanalysis for help....
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Burger King Baby’s Search: A Challenge to Adoption Practices
Angela Tucker, a young woman whose quest for her birth family was chronicled in the documentary Closure, made her first breakthrough in finding her family through the Internet. As the documentary...
View ArticleAre you in Bossy Relationship?
Business leader Sheryl Sandberg caused an internet sensation with her new campaign to ban the word "bossy" this week....But the greater question is: why are so many American men allowing themselves to...
View ArticlePublishing insider: When is a book really finished?
I turned in the manuscript for Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked in mid-October. My wife, Elizabeth, and I celebrated. The book was done!Hardly.It's been...
View Article“I Came For My Child But This Is Really About Me..."
I recently spoke at a parent education night about the Worry Monster and ways parents can help their children understand and fight this bully. As usual, I spoke about the survival response we all have,...
View ArticleHere We Snow Again
I have news that is hard even to fathom. It’s something none of us thought could happen. It is a heartless, brutal turn of events, a surreal occurrence that isn’t right or fair. Worst of all, there is...
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10 Best Depression Treatments Revealed: Back From The Brink
In preparing my new book, Back From The Brink: true stories and practical help for overcoming depression and bipolar, I asked 4064 people who had lived with depression or bipolar, what worked best in...
View ArticleWhy Go to University?
I have been in universities all my life. I started out in 1970 at a university that barely makes it into the top 500 in world rankings and have a doctorate from, and lectureship at, universities that...
View ArticleWhen Hoarding Becomes a Hazard
At first glance, it might look as if I am a hoarder, simply because I have run out of space in my filing cabinets, and things are piling up. I've tried cleaning house, but the last piece of paper I...
View ArticleCouples
When I moved to the smallish community in which I live(7,000) I was a single woman knowing only my small family here – my daughter, her husband and my granddaughter. They themselves were busy moving to...
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Treating narcissists like alcoholics?
It is exceptionally challenging to make changes in a relationship with a self-centered narcissist. It’s all about them and never about you. You will find you are always to blame and it is rare that...
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