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Dead Meet: Matchmaking for the Darker Crowd
Recently a friend of mine went to Manchester, England, to speak at a conference on “Encountering Corpses.” He mentioned that he’d met an autopsy assistant, Carla Valentine, who has set up a unique...
View ArticleMonica and the Rest Who Deserve a Second Chance
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you have read this week of the continued confessions of Monica Lewinsky. 16 years later we didn’t really need a confession. We know the facts and have all had to sit...
View ArticleDepression Out of Control!
The diagnosis of depression is totally out of control! Once considered a major psychiatric illness that skirted suicide and wrecked careers and marriages, it has become as common as the common...
View ArticleWhy Are We Driven to Give Standardized Tests to Children?
Students in Finland have the highest test scores in the world, but not because they take standardized tests every year.In Finland, a child is not tested until high school, yet students there test...
View ArticleEntertainment Today: Is Bad the New Good?
One of the things I hear every day as a prosecutor is the complaints of parents lamenting what they describe as the decline of healthy entertainment choices. Whether they are parents of lawbreakers or...
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Do We Choose Happiness or Does Happiness Choose Us?
Dan Bowling, an expert in the fields of law and positive psychology, frequently writes about happiness amongst lawyers. Given that attorneys consistently rank higher than most professions on measures...
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Mental Health Disorders are Closer than you Think
May is Mental Health Month and we really do need to pay close attention to this topic since mental health issues impact all of us....and I really do mean all of us.For example, the National Institute...
View ArticleAsylums and their History
A couple of things spurred me to write this post. First, in a matter of days (and along with colleagues Vicky Long and Despo Kritsotaki), I will be submitting a book proposal on the history of...
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In Praise of Serious People
We like happy people. They boost our mood and don’t burden us with their issues.But serious people may be worth more of our time.True, serious folks are unlikely to make us laugh but also unlikely to...
View ArticleThe Eternal, Immature Joy of Mother Jokes
I've had a little Twitter success lately. Not with my main account, which has been slowly gathering a halfway decent number of followers for over 5 years. That account is lucky to pick up 10 new...
View ArticleThe Price Of Nice
We think of niceness as our due, what we all owe each other, an inalienable human right, but actually we pay a big personal cost for the niceness we insist others show us. Every time we discourage...
View ArticleThe Case of the Consecutive Course Questionnaires
If you follow my blog regularly (You know who you are—both of you....), you know that I like to present readers with cases to ponder. You did so well on a previous case about course evaluations,...
View ArticleThe Beauty Myth in the 21st Century
Those who know me would likely describe me as fairly “low maintenance” when it comes to my appearance (let’s face it, you don’t get nominated for What Not to Wear if you are very into your physical...
View ArticleNYC Event: Helix Center Benefit – Sunday, June 1st
Over the years, some of the most psychologically scintillating events I’ve been aware of have come out of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation.This NYC-based organization stands...
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The Arkham Sessions Delve Deeper into the Animated Batman
The Arkham Sessions is an ongoing podcast dedicated to the psychological analysis of characters and stories in Batman: The Animated Series. Every week, Dr. Andrea Letamendi and her co-host Brian Ward...
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In feet first
Of all the types of sexual fetishes, one of the most common is foot fetishism. In a book chapter on sexual fetishism, Dr. Chris Gosselin and Dr. Glenn Wilson reported that the three most common body...
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The Sometimes Tragic Fallout of Staying Married Too Long
I know it’s hard to leave. I know there will be lots of change and upheaval. I know that it may mean getting completely out of your comfort zone and perhaps risking quite a lot. But staying in your...
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How I Became a Writer
Today, a client said he was afraid he couldn’t learn to write well enough, so I decided to tell him the improbable story of how I became a writer. He said it offered him valuable lessons not only on...
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