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The Healing Power of Erotic Love
In her new book An Intimate Life, Berkeley sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen Greene (yes, she’s the one whose work was featured in the movie The Sessions) describes the confusion and dread that gripped the...
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Some Like It Too Hot
Imagine a medical advisory discreetly mailed to unfaithful men everywhere. “Warning,” it says. “Extramarital sex can kill.”The medical staff of the Andrology Clinic at the University of Florence has...
View ArticleG.M. Responds
G.M.’s CEO has responded all too predictably to the Cobalt crisis by firing its senior vice president for global communications, responsible for “handling . . . the public response to the recall of...
View ArticleCan Technology Save Itself from Itself?
With the 20th anniversary of the birth of Internet just passed, I thought it a good time to step back and reflect on the role of technology in our present lives and the role it may play in the...
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New Era for Alzheimer's?
New Wine?It’s not just in media, high tech and politics where hype often overwhelms hope. It frequently happens in medicine. The discovery of abnormalities in amyloid and tau proteins made researchers...
View ArticleRestless Finger Syndrome- Do You Have It?!
It has been a while since last I posted; I'm sure most of you have been checking your RSS feeds, Facebook pages, listserves, tweets and emails for notification of my next post. Truth be told, I've...
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Facebook Posts That Can Put Your Kid in Jail
The news brims with incidences of teens (and parents) paying the price of posting on Facebook without thinking. Guest poster Joani Geltman, MSW, who has spent 30 years in the trenches with parents and...
View ArticleI Love a Narcissist, Now What?
‘I love a narcissist.’Simply put, there's no other kind of relationship one can have with a narcissist than a confusing, gut-wrenching, and addictive one. The troubling characteristics of the...
View ArticleOn Pleasing Students or the Goldilocks's Problem
As the spring 2014 semester ends, psychology teachers will soon be passing out course evaluation forms. I did mine earlier this week. I always tell my students two things. First, I remind them that I...
View ArticleDicipline: Is it what you say or how you say it?
The link between parental love and children’s successful and health growth to adulthood has long captivated the interest of psychologists. The links between parental discipline and good outcomes is a...
View ArticlePTSD: An Explanation for Violent Behavior?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been invoked to help explain many aspects of human behavior, including violence. The April 2 shooting at Fort Hood in Texas that left three dead and sixteen...
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The Cat Nobel Prize Part III
(Note: This is part of a series of posts I’m writing in conjunction with my new book, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons.)The previous two posts in this triad explored, first, how experiments on...
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Easter Eggs
Easter EggsSpring. Flowers and showers. Fertility and frivolity. Bunnies, chicks, and other symbols of sex and rebirth. Such as Good Housekeeping’s forthcoming review of sex toys.But, before we get to...
View ArticleCriticism vs. Feedback
As Oscar Wilde put it, “Criticism is the only reliable form of autobiography.” It tells you more about the psychology of the criticizer than the people he or she criticizes. Astute professionals can...
View ArticleUnderstanding More About Vernal
Working on the biography of my sister Vernal has put to light my inexperience and limitations in researching a family member. How do I deal with her secrets and habits? The work constitutes careful...
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A Murder of Pros
A group of crows is called a “murder.” It seems an appropriate term for a gathering of true crime authors as well, since the crow is a liminal bird, representing the threshold between life and...
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Andrew Dice Clay: Can You End To Begin Anew?
Andrew Dice Clay, self-proclaimed as "America's most controversial and outrageous comic of all time," has filed for divorce despite having plans to be with his wife, Valerie (Vasquez) Silverstein, for...
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Learning and Sleep in Toddlers
Quite a bit of research has begun to explore influences of sleep on cognitive processes. In adults, sleep has a huge influence on memory. Sleep speeds learning of new skills. It also helps to...
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Home for the Holidays in a Residential Treatment Facility
As Easter approaches, the issue of family, belonging, and the meaning of holidays becomes so important to children who live apart from their parents. As a part-time worker in a residential treatment...
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Lost Your Keys Again? 8 Tips for Finding Misplaced Objects
Samuel Johnson wrote, “It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible,” and I’m often struck by how much happiness I get from...
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