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Did Time Stop For You?
I recently visited with Maureen, my daughter’s childhood friend who gave birth to Fawn, a tiny beauty with porcelain skin and clear, searching eyes. Maureen and I are emotionally connected. Her high...
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The Deepest Fear
“I should have gone over and said hello.” But he didn’t. Bill was an undergraduate in college who sat across from me, closed his eyes, tilted his head back and sighed. He had wanted to say hello to...
View ArticleHoliday Blues or Symptoms of a Concussion?
Are you experiencing holiday blues or perhaps symptoms of a concussion? The holidays are approaching and you are feeling overwhelmed. You are feeling unorganized and distracted. When you are...
View ArticleSocial Bonding and Addiction
The desire to belong arises from the brain reward system. Oxytocin, often referred to as the “trust hormone”, enhances brain reward system (joy and pleasure) in response to love and social bonding and...
View ArticleTo Believe or Not Believe Bill Cosby's Accusers
“I want people to think about choices,” Bill Cosby once said, and from the media blitzkrieg that’s suddenly transformed him from lionized to vilified, it appears that it’s high time he think about his....
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Rest in Center
Are you all over the place?The Practice: Rest in center.Why?Gravity and entropy are powerful processes in the natural world. Gravity draws things together, toward a center, while entropy scatters them...
View ArticleSeinfeld Recants Autism Diagnosis
So now Jerry Seinfeld isn’t autistic after all. When asked about his controversial self-diagnosis by a reporter from Access Hollywood last week, Seinfeld said definitively, “I don’t have autism. I’m...
View ArticleWhy Some Women Are Burning Out in Their 20's and 30's
“Everyone’s driven. But everyone’s also sick of it,” according to Nicolet High School senior, Sammi Castle, whose story recently appeared in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article called, “Achievers’...
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Obama's Passage to India
President Obama announced yesterday that he will be visiting India for the second time early next year, and as the first U.S. President to attend India’s Republic Day, he will be making a historic...
View ArticleUnderstanding Beliefs
Understanding BeliefsI became interested in the subject of beliefs through my research in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Many AI systems represent their knowledge as declarative statements...
View ArticleBig-Balled Males Kill Infants More than the Less Endowed
A brief essay in a recent issue of New Scientist magazine called "Infanticide drives female promiscuity and big balls" caught my eye. (The title for the print edition of this essay is "Big balls a sign...
View ArticleIs it Time to Fire My Therapist?
As a psychotherapist, a teacher of therapists, and a psychotherapy researcher, it is not unusual for friends, students and acquaintances to describe frustrating or distressing experiences they are...
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Derrick Rose and the Injury-Prone Athlete
Derrick Rose, the Chicago Bulls point guard, was awarded the MVP in 2011, and the media and fans envisioned Rose’s future filled with more MVP trophies and, perhaps, the NBA Championship. But sports...
View ArticleStop Enabling Your Addicted Adult Child
Geno, an adult client of mine (not his real name), came in to see me, feeling very frustrated and angry. He described recently seeing his adult son's phone number (Geno is paying for the phone line)...
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Gratitude in Tough Times
For most of last year, it felt like my right leg was on fire. The rheumatoid arthritis that I’ve had since the age of three flared radiating lightning-bolt heat and pain through my ankle and into my...
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Playing with Psychosis in 'Birdman'
The opening shot of Birdman (brilliantly directed by Alejandro Inarritu) features Riggan Thomas (Michael Keaton) sitting yoga-style in his tightie-whities all alone in a grungy dressing room. That...
View ArticleBill Cosby, UVA, Penn State, Catholic Clergy, and Beyond
This week, whether you’ve been logged on to the Internet, watching the news on TV, listening to the radio, or reading the paper, you’ve been deluged with updates and opinions about the sexual abuse...
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Gratitude: Think About It
If you feel like complaining about something, think it over first, because it's actually not worth it...It’s easy for us to complain about who we aren’t, what we don’t have, what we can´t do, what we...
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Kids in Ferguson Need Superheroes Too
Ryan displays warmth and an easy confidence, a certain comfort even in the face of his own discomfort. He emanates a sense of well-being— an awareness what he can and cannot do— what he knows and what...
View ArticleAnswers: Beliefs About ABA
How we define behavior, Autism, and appropriateness is a tricky slope to navigate and one bombarded by subjectivity and emotion. The paths of knowledge and beliefs before us often range from...
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