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Cultural Values and the Likelihood of Suicide
Researchers have known for many years that suicide rates are higher in societies that emphasize the importance of the individual and lower in societies that emphasize the importance of collectives such...
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Leadership, Separation, and Vulnerability: Snippets
The way I understand it, leadership is almost exclusively about an intentionality, not about our position in society or in an organization. It's the intentionality of caring for the whole and of taking...
View ArticleAnimal Rights, Steven Wise, and Steven Colbert
For many years, Steven Wise, lawyer and President of the Nonhuman Rights Project, the only organization currently fighting to give some nonhuman ("animals") legal rights such as bodily integrity and...
View ArticleDo You Believe in Ghosts?
The very first line of Next Life Might Be Kinder, by Howard Norman, is this: "After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me."When...
View ArticleIce Age Mammoth Hunters Might Have Used Wolf-Dogs
Carter Niemeyer, a former Fish and Wildlife agent who knows as much about wolves as anyone I know and who is their indefatigable champion in the face of their relentless enemies, sent around a while...
View ArticleWhy You Should Let Go of Your Bad Marriage
I know it's hard to let go of certain people-especially if you love them, if you are married to them, and if you made a vow to be with them "until death do us part." BUT, things happen. People change....
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Heartbroken: What Does Neuroimaging Show About Your Pain?
If a loved one leaves you, it hurts. In addition to emotional pain, you are likely to feel a pain in your chest as if your heart were literally breaking. It’s bad enough that the person you love is no...
View ArticleCan Practice Overcome a Lack of Talent?
Recent books such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and Talent is Overrated (Colvin) have suggested that deliberate practice – structured practice designed to improve performance in music, sports, games,...
View ArticleIf We Weren't Already Married Would You Choose Me Again?
When I deal with married couples facing difficulties in their relationship, I know that the key to help them effectively resolve their current problem lies in finding the core of love they felt for...
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10 Frightening Costs of Sleep Loss
With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that 30 percent of the American workforce gets less than six hours of sleep per night, it's fair to say that lack of sleep has become a...
View ArticleLosing a Job and Losing Your Friends
QUESTIONHi,I worked at my job for 17 years and developed friendships with several women at my job for that long. About a year ago, our longtime manager left and we got a new manager who made my job...
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On First Glimpses
When we first meet someone can we count on our first reaction? Should we give our initial impression any weight? Will it last?Certainly in literature these first glimpse scenes lead us to believe this...
View ArticleWhy Things That Work Work Just Barely
One essential truth of Darwinism, behaviorism, and systems theory is that nothing is ever better than it needs to be. A genetic variation will be passed on if it produces a survival or reproductive...
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Triggering Sleep-Talking
A reader writes:Hi Dr. Rosen,I was just reading up on sleep talking and I read your article in Psychology Today. I know what I'm doing when I talk in my sleep (I just don't know why, per say) and it is...
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The Power of Positive Feedback
I recently wrote about the importance of receiving--and how letting in good stuff is often more difficult than giving. But this is not to minimize the value and power of extending ourselves in generous...
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
In “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” 10 years of an unchecked virus and bloody battles with the apes have reduced the world to a small group of desperate humans versus an equally small group of...
View ArticleDoing the work of relationships: A maintenance approach
If I ever get around to writing the book I always talk about writing, it’ll be called “Doing The Work of Relationships.” This is because relationships take an incredible amount of work, and that work...
View ArticleCults and the Mind-Body Connection
I just returned from the International Cultic Studies Association ‘s (ICSA) annual conference and wanted to tell you about soul murder, the term coined by psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold to describe the...
View ArticleFive Ways to Make Someone Feel Special
In a new relationship or one seasoned by time, for a female or male friend or relative, young or old, same sex or other, the desire to feel appreciated is universal and the methods of showing that you...
View ArticleFor Borderlines, Opposite Action is Key to Healing
It has been four days since my former fiance broke off our relationship and moved out of the house we shared with our two kids (my son, his daughter), and I'm still here, and though I've had a few...
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