Even Feminists Enjoy Sexual Surrender
Rarely has a news magazine story generated as much intra-feminist flack as Katie Roiphe's Newsweek cover "The Fantasy Life of Working Women" that went live on the web yesterday. Within hours of its...
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Women: Does Orgasm Give You a Hangover?
In 2011, UK researchers released an interesting survey of postcoital symptoms in women. It didn't fit the standard script about how orgasms transform women into glowing, satisfied beings or eager,...
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Brain Stimulation Makes the 'Impossible Problem' Solvable
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify...into every corner of our mind." - John Maynard KeynesTry connecting all nine of these dots with just four...
View ArticleCharles Darwin: Dad, and Scholar
Charles Darwin’s contributions to evolutionary theory are legendary and foundational. After all, where would we be without Origin of Species or The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex? How...
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Why Are the Children of Immigrants Becoming Immigrants?
Kirk Semple has a thought provoking article in The New York Times titled Many U.S. Immigrants’ Children Seek American Dream Abroad.At first I was somewhat shocked by the idea that the children of...
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Solving Impossible Problems
The thinking cap solves the virtually unsolvable. Brain Stimulation Makes the 'Impossible Problem' Solvable By Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. on April 18, 2012 in Beautiful Minds 'Thinking cap' makes a...
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Bullying Intervention Programs: Where Have We Gone Wrong?
Yesterday I read a news story about a school in New Brunswick, Canada that addressed a bullying issue in its school by hiring a full time educational aide to follow a student around who had been...
View ArticleThe Value of Goals
Goals are great. We should all have goals. Goals help us to focus our energy, form plans, live a purpose-centered life, and give us a feeling of accomplishment. What do I want to do with my life? Where...
View ArticleImagining Other People's Choices Clarifies Your Own
Many of our decisions are tied to how we view ourselves and how other people see us. We know that getting a tattoo, buying an SUV, becoming a vegetarian, dating on-line, moving to New York City, and...
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Why Do We Have Sex?
Why Do We Have Sex? By Noam Shpancer, Ph.D. on April 16, 2012 in Insight Therapy Many seemingly simple questions are, on close inspection, not at all easy to answer. One of these—perhaps the most...
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Career Success Starts With a "T"
Are you T-shaped?According to those in the talent-seeking field, the most sought-after candidates for management, consulting, research, and other leadership positions are T-shaped. The vertical stem of...
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To Be and Not to Be
When I tell people that I am a drama therapist, they often ask: “It that therapy for actors?” “Could be,” I say, “but trained actors can be difficult clients.” “You mean because they are so good at...
View ArticleHow to Respond to Emotional Outbursts
"Please, Daddy, please? Can we open our presents from you now?"It was the third night of Hanukkah and my wife Eleanor, our three young children, and I had just come home from a holiday party."Didn't...
View ArticleFor a Better Marriage, Find Some Couple-Friends
Do you and your partner have “couple friends”--other couples that you socialize with as a couple? Have you thought about their role in your marriage?University of Maryland professor Geoffrey Greif has....
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Emotional and Physical Pain Activate Similar Brain Regions
When people feel emotional pain, the same areas of the brain get activated as when people feel physical pain: the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex. In one study, these regions were...
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Framework for a Great Leap Into Retirement
For many top business executives, their transition into “early retirement” is happening decidedly sooner—and meaner. Their jobs are being usurped by company “stars” who possess new world experiences...
View ArticleFaith in Psychiatry
Est autem fides credere quod nondum vides; cuius fidei merces est videre quod credis.Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.St. AugustineIn...
View ArticleDo Women Drive Heterosexual Romantic Relationships?
A recent study of over 2 billion cell phone calls and text messages exchanged between people showed that women call most often their boyfriend or husband from the age of 20 and for 15 years, after...
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Brain Scans Show How Meditation Improves Mental Focus
People who regularly practice meditation may improve their mental focus by altering brain function. Compared to non-meditators, they may be better equipped to quiet brain activity related to...
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