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When Jokes Aren't Just Jokes
What do blondes and beer bottles have in common? They're both empty from the neck up. Why haven't any women ever gone to the moon? It doesn't need cleaning yet. Did you laugh? For many people, these...
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Toxic People Everywhere
Toxic relationships are ones where one party often feels wounded by the other. They exist in families, marriage and dating relationships, among friends, even longtime friends, and at work, among...
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Weight Loss Surgery and Sane Eating: Can they coexist?
Neither Nightmare nor Magic WandOnce again I am revisiting the subject of weight loss surgery. How does it or does it not mesh with the goal of eating sanely? This question triggers strong...
View ArticleEverything You Hear About Football Players is Wrong
Based on the assumption that everything you hear from mental health experts on television is wrong, bears no relationship to any data we have, and is based on media memes rather than on any desire to...
View Article"Kicking the Bucket List"
The New Yorker's ever-readable Rebecca Mead has just published a snappy critique of the idea of "a bucket list." (Is it an expression of the "YOLOization" of our culture?) The items on these lists...
View ArticleThe Neglected Link Among World Crises
Amid the upheaval across many sectors of our world, from mass shootings in U.S. schools to the crises in the Middle East to the reckless striving for wealth and world domination, there is one...
View ArticleWhat Huffington Post Gets Wrong about #WhyIStayed
I am very glad to see all of the stories emerge about #whyistayed and #whyileft in the wake of the Janay and Ray Rice incident. Domestic violence is a complicated problem and "why didn't she leave"...
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How to Be Healthy: Five Thinking Shortcuts to Eliminate
The fact that humans survived in a world of more powerful predators is a huge tribute to the potency of our brain. Certainly our claws and jaws aren’t threatening to wolves and crocodiles, our strength...
View ArticleI Want to Leave My Sexless Marriage
Dear Dr. G.,I want to leave my family. I have two boys ages 26 and 20. I love them dearly. I married for the first time in 2005 to a good guy. The only area we are not compatible in, and never was, is...
View ArticleWhy Am I Reading About Angelina Jolie's Alleged Anorexia?
A close friend of Angelina Jolie's late mother has told an interviewer that Angelina suffered from anorexia during her teen years."I carried her into the hospital. She was in that anorexic stage," Cis...
View ArticleDo You Know the 3rd Leading Cause of Death? You Should!
Everyone knows that heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans and that cancer is #2. But few people can tell you the third leading cause of death, which kills 400,000 of our loved ones, friends, and...
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Can Dogs Get Infected by the Ebola Virus?
It seems that every day the news is filled with information about the spread of Ebola, which is short for Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. This is a deadly viral infection with a fatality rate that ranges from...
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Borderline Provocations IX: Hostile Sounding Comments
This is Part IX of an ongoing series of posts. Before reading this one, particularly if you are going to try this at home with a real adult family member with borderline personality disorder, or BPD...
View ArticleWhat God Does Obama Believe In?
A couple of weeks ago, in response to the savage killing of American journalist Tom Foley, President Obama held a press conference in order to condemn -- solemnly and strongly -- the heinous murder...
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Don’t Check Out, Check In! Eight Easy Steps
There’s no shortage of buzzwords or phrases to assist us all to meet the challenge of living in a world that seems to be moving at warp speed most of the time. The problem is that embodying those...
View ArticleYes Means Yes
Yes means yes. That’s the shorthand for the new legislation poised to become law in California.California is on the verge of becoming the first state to mandate that all colleges receiving state funds...
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Radical Embitterment: The Psychology of Terrorists
Given recent gruesome events in the Middle East--the unanticipated taking of territory in Iraq by ISIS and now the videotaped barbaric beheadings of two Americans and one British citizen described by...
View ArticleThree Ways That Happiness Backfires
Most people like happiness. In an international survey participants rated happiness, on average, as being more desirable than falling in love, being good looking, making money or getting into heaven....
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Prevent Your Strategy Offsite From Being Meaningless
I was facilitating the two-day executive offsite of a mid-sized technology company. The goal of the meeting was to solve major issues and identify potential opportunities that would guide their...
View ArticleDo Moderation Programs Encourage Alcoholic Drinking?
By Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. and Marc F. Kern, Ph.D.This article was originally posted on rehabs.com (find it here)As you may recall, the first part of this series focused on the introduction of a number of...
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