Charismatic Leadership: The X-Factor in Politics and Religion
People around the world seem to agree on which leaders possess that mysterious X-factor leadership quality: charisma. Jesus and Buddha had it, and so did Churchill, De Gaulle, FDR, Gandhi, JFK, Reagan...
View ArticleChildfree Men: Misunderstood and Often Maligned!
Childfree men fly under the radar screen more often than do women who don't have kids. In our culture, the role of father is not deemed essential in the life of a man. For women, on the other hand,...
View ArticleRecognizing a Remarkable Leader
When Dr. James T. Harris III became the ninth President of Widener University in 2002, he inherited a proud but relatively unknown institution of higher learning. He inherited the benefits of being at...
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If your mind made you believe it, is it true?
In the last three posts I've considered the psychology behind whether people accept evolution or instead opt for an alternative like Intelligent Design (see Darwin Day Posts 1, 2, and 3). In this...
View ArticleWords as living organisms
A few days ago, I went to meet a business consultant in NYC. He sent me an email to meet him at a backdoor entrance of a well-known company so we could enter before it opened to the public. I easily...
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Real Men Don't Eat Your Chocolate
Of course, men and women are equal. Totally. At least according to law, and in some sitcoms.Men's groups have been around for decades now, exploring the definition of what it means to be a man, what...
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Psychiatric Medication Minimization Strategies: Part III
This series of posts is focused how to minimize your or your child's psychiatric medications ("psychotropics".) Parts I and II described various strategies that can help streamline or even eliminate...
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Empathy: The Ability that Makes us Truly Human
In the UK, there has been a lot of publicity lately for the idea of ‘restorative justice.' As part of this process, offenders are brought face to face with the victims of their crimes, to hear how they...
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Being Fired Never Felt So Good.
Bouncing back from psychiatric illness is hard. Bouncing back into the world of work after psychiatric illness is even harder. And more nerve racking.I was 30 years old. I hadn't worked in over 5...
View ArticleHow to Score: Face Your Fear of Rejection in the Game of Love
Friday Night Lights. No, I'm not talking about the show I recently discovered and changed my life (though that'd be a safe assumption). I'm talking about the electricity and kinetic wave of energy...
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Stockholm Syndrome, the Capture-Bonding Response, and S&M Sex
Reaction formation—the superficial adoption and exaggeration of ideas and impulses that are diametrically opposed to one's own—may at least partially underlie the apparently paradoxical psychological...
View ArticleFreedom Fighters?
We've all had a boss make decisions that limit our freedom, even if it is something simple like banning a certain website from the workplace or certain clothing requirements. And these make us feel a...
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'Was Dick Cheney Too Old for His Heart Transplant?' Wrong Question, Donor's...
Today's news that former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from undergoing heart transplant surgery sends me right back to the worst day of my life, when I became the sister of a heart...
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Pinned: Pinterest Porn
I'm wild about Pinterest the new hot social network where images are like a digital drug - addictive, unlimited pleasure with just a few side effects - like taking up every minute of the day.I'm not...
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The Seesaw between Independence and Belonging
When I'm with a group, I feel pressured by priorities that don't resonate with me.But when I'm alone, I'm bound by the limited power of one.The trade-off between independence and belonging is like a...
View ArticleThe Crucifixion of Chronic Pain Relief
“Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it...
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Behold the Lamb of God: Scapegoating as an Ego Defense
The ego defence of displacement plays a role in scapegoating, in which uncomfortable feelings such as anger and guilt are displaced and projected onto another, often more vulnerable, person or group....
View ArticleThe Overuse of the Word "Addiction"
"Addiction" has been utilized to explain many phenomena. In fact, the term is so overused that the meaning has been sucked out of it. Anything that a person likes too much, in present parlance, he is...
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