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Is "Fake News" Really Fake?
I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t read or watch much news any more. Television stations claiming to be bias-free still clutter their reporting with opinion and fluff, and even websites like Yahoo...
View ArticleCan (Violent) Video Games Reduce Prejudice?
General MacArthur once opined that it would take a battle against aliens from outer space to unite humans on earth. This is an intriguing idea that plays at the heart of many social psychological...
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Are You Pigeonholing Yourself Into a Rut?
Dina breezes past me at the office doorway and plops down on the couch, taking her shoes off and wedging her bare feet tightly into the breaks between the cushions. Before I can get out a full "nice to...
View ArticleCould you drop out of your life?
Many of us dream of dropping out of our lives to find something we can’t completely name. “It’s so easy to make decisions based on all of the demands of the outer world: our job, family, even the...
View ArticleMindfulness as Integration
Mindful awareness can be considered as a way of being, more than something that involves our “doing” something. Engage a certain “state of mind” that has the range of qualities we have heard repeatedly...
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Are You Suffering from Compassion Fatigue?
Compassion fatigue used to be a problem that was most commonly seen among health care professionals. Because their work puts them in situations where they commonly see or hear about ongoing and...
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Dearest Daughter Emily
Dearest Daughter Emily,I write you this letter now, a month shy of your fifth trip around Earth's sun, knowing full well that you cannot yet read it. Indeed, I know not when or where you will...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Litigious People and Frivolous Lawsuits
America: land of the free and home of the litigious. For some people, the knee-jerk reaction to conflict is to threaten a lawsuit. These people will threaten to sue you for trespass if the vines in...
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Asking the Right Questions
Ask a question and you not only obtain desired information but show you're interested in what the person has to say. The right question can be particularly potent. Examples:Ask your boss, “Is there...
View ArticleHow to Know if You’ve Joined the Reinvention Revolution
There’s a revolution happening, a culture-shifting revolution, one that’s non-violent and totally transformative. You’ve joined the Reinvention Revolution if you know the revolution’s already underway,...
View ArticleAutism and Sensory Processing Disorder
A paper recently presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research verified what many parents of kids with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) already know – that children with some form of...
View ArticleWhy You (and I) Blog, Post to Facebook and Twitter
Nobody "needlessly" blogs or posts to Facebook or TwitterHenry A. Murray* (1893 - 1988) was an American psychologist who taught at Harvard University for over 30 years.Among his many accomplishments...
View ArticleKids With Autism Live in an Intense World
Adam, a boy with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is at the playground with his mother and a friend of his mother’s. It’s a typical scene – some adults playing basketball and racquetball, a group of...
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Has Life Been Unfair to You?
It can seem like some people have all the luck. They’re born to successful, enlightened parents. They’re intelligent, beautiful, and well-adjusted. They’re well-liked both by teachers and kids. They...
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Come Back, Homunculus—All Is Forgiven!
In a previous post, I drew attention to the parallel between a particular kind of psychotic delusion and the “homuncular thinking” that has recently been found to be beneficial to autistic children....
View ArticleAdolescence and Risk-taking
Of course parenting is risky at the outset as adults take a gamble on seeing what manner of little stranger will be born or adopted into their care. So their first job is to get acquainted with the...
View ArticleWhen and Why Have Americans “Forgotten" Death?
When and why have Americans “forgotten” death? For about a century now, we have collectively ignored death and dying in everyday life, a clear break from the past and from most other societies. It was...
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Please Don't Be Normal
Have you ever noticed that what we consider to be normal today is really anything but? Normal usually means sleep-deprived, overfed yet under nourished, overstressed and inactive. Let’s take a quick...
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