How To Get Some Extra Work Time and Energy
How many times have you said to yourself, “I wish there were more time in the workday to get things done?” Here are some simple techniques that can be used to help find that extra time and energy at...
View ArticleBut that Makes No Sense!
Humans at any given moment process probably millions of pieces of information. As I sit here typing this, I see other people, carpets, various books, different shades on lighting on the cabinets, my...
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4 Risks in Loving Men Who Can’t Commit
Should women spend time, energy, and emotion on a man who may never be a part of their future? All too often women say to themselves or their friends: “Well, he wouldn’t commit in the past, but I’m...
View ArticleScience Should Never Be Used as an Ideological Bludgeon
Dear Dr. Lucas,Like anyone who frequents these pages, I occasionally encounter Psychology Today blogs with which I disagree. Sometimes a blog post even annoys me. But it is rare that a posting is so...
View ArticleAesthetics and Envy
Aesthetics and technology are hallmarks of civilizations, namely, their defining accomplishments. Indeed, both may be used as tools to enrich life’s transformative and reparative journey. The entire...
View ArticleThe Future of Psychology
Sunday's New York Times had an article on the growing shortage of doctors because of Obamacare. We don't have enough physicians now, and when more people get health insurance, it will get worse. I...
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Scientists Rebuke Publication of Study on LGBT Parenting
Recently the journal Social Science Research published a paper by University of Texas Associate Professor Mark Regnerus entitled “How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex...
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Lying and Procrastination
Like all vices, procrastination has built in mechanisms to ensure its own survival. You want to stop putting stuff off until later, you want to have the motivation to get started now, but you don’t....
View ArticleHealing War Trauma With Art Therapy
By David TaransaudI recently traveled to Northern Uganda and set up an art therapy service in an orphanage for former child soldiers and young people affected by conflict and trauma.I came back a week...
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Divorce Is Easier
There is a popular photo on social networking sites. The photo shows an elderly couple replying to a question about how they have remained married so long. They answer that in their time when something...
View ArticleWhere Are You on the Divorce Stress Scale?
I think it’s fair to say that divorce is a stressful event in one’s life. For some, it is the most stressful event they will ever experience.Dozens of studies show that stress compromises the immune...
View ArticleObservation and Transformation
The door we are going to pass through today on the Journey to Greatness is: Observation and Self-Witnessing.The next time you look yourself over; think about what you are overlooking.To see wisdom we...
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Seven Mistakes Therapists Make
Every week I talk with aspiring private practitioners (psychology graduate students) who want to know how to have long, productive careers so they can pay back their student loans. Recently I was asked...
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Does Holy War Make Demons of Us All?
Is it possible to get beyond a lack of trust to find commonalities and hope in the Middle East?I spent half a year in Israel with my parents in my teens. Then I earned a degree from UCLA in Middle...
View ArticleWhat is “love”?
We often think of “love” as the center of understanding romantic relationships but that is not the whole, or the most accurate, picture. We know that humans pair bond and are frequently in monogamous...
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Are Unpaid Interns Being Abused?
A recent Dilbert cartoon caught my eye. When asked if an unfamiliar co-worker was a new intern the person responded by saying that he’s “an intern to another intern….(and has to) pay a resort fee just...
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Our Founding Fathers
For many Americans, an image of the founding fathers points toward an older, light-skinned man, maybe George Washington, or the signers of the Declaration of Independence such as Sam Adams. That same...
View ArticleAge Gracefully by Maintaining Mental Vitality
The costs of Alzheimer’s DiseaseIn the Blue Zone of Ikaria, Greece dementia is virtually nonexistent. This is in stark contrast to America, where 5.4 million people currently suffer from the mental...
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What Shape Is Your Dog's Ear?
It seems that every sport, specialty, or interest group eventually develops its own language to describe the things that are important to them. The world of dogs is no different. For example, when they...
View ArticleWhich Ways Are You Brave?
When I started working on my latest book about how fear makes you sick and how courage helps you heal, I had the nerve to tell Matt I was writing the book for fearful people like him. (Note to self:...
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