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Self Reflections from Serial Killers
It was an innovative idea: get incarcerated offenders to tell their life stories. Collectively, they might thus offer clues about the nature of criminality. And it wasn’t a psychiatrist who thought of...
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Be Friendly
Friend or Foe?The Practice:Be friendly. Why?Friendliness is a down-to-earth approach to others that is welcoming and positive.Think about a time when someone was friendly to you - maybe drawing you...
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The New Science of Sleep
We're just scratching the surface of life's most mysterious activity.
View ArticleBorn to be Bilingual
My dearest little one,One day you may read this letter written a few days after your birth. Your parents, your extended family, as well as many friends, have been celebrating your arrival among us. We...
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Feeling The Burn
Oh my god. If I hear one more person say, “Oh my god I’m so sore from all this lactic acid in my muscles” I’m going to … Ok, well I’m not really going to do anything, but please stop saying that....
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Adaptive and Maladaptive Shame
Shame. Just saying the word can be aversive. It is one of the most painful emotions that we humans can experience. And, in a related vein, it is probably one of the most avoided, inhibited, or defended...
View ArticleFear of Frights
He doesn’t get the attraction. Why conjure horror with computer-contrived invasions and digitized end-of-earth extravaganzas when howling hurricane winds and devastating tidal surges provide enough...
View ArticleWhy Is 'Foodie' a Dirty Word (for Some)?
I am not a foodie. Sure, I am an enthusiastic home cook, with more cookbooks than I or my family could possibly use (I have a low threshold that just one decent recipe justifies a cookbook). I...
View ArticleExercise Your Free "Won't"
We have much less control over our behavior than we think.The psychologist Benjamin Libet showed that he could predict with 80% accuracy that a subject was going to push a particular button seven to...
View ArticleMoms, Dads, and ADHD
The scary laundry list of possible side effects from ADHD medication is well documented, but you don’t often hear about the collateral damage that the vast number of diagnoses in this country is...
View ArticleWomen With Disabilities
In the United States, violence against women is a national epidemic, and still a well kept secret. The Centers for Disease Control report that each year, violence from an intimate partner results...
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Giving Back When you Have Little to Give
This blog curates the voices of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. Sarah Stith, mother, blogger and former dresser for the Lion King on Broadway, submits...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Retirement Planning
QUESTIONHi Irene,I am a professional in my early sixties and plan to retire in three years when I am 65 years old. I am married to a very good man, have a grown up beautiful daughter yet I find myself...
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Before pill popping,12 tips to sleep like a baby
There is an advertising-fueled medicine myth in America that a little pill can cure you. Sleeping pills are one of the more widely used meds prescribed to approximately 60 million people in the United...
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Goals, Motivation and the Brain
If you plan to make a New Year’s resolution in a couple of months, there’s a good chance your goal is to improve your health, foster more personal connections, or perform better at work or school. In...
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The Extreme Female Brain: Not So Female After All?
A well-known theory of psychological sex differences proposed that autism represents a manifestation of an ‘extreme male brain’ type. A recent paper has claimed that the opposite type, or ‘extreme...
View ArticleCourage After Fire
“Courage After Fire” was the name of a conference I recently attended. It was about transitions, about bridging the gap between military and civilian life. We’re all familiar...
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Tolerance and the Search for Truth
University professors often raise controversial issues and encourage discussions of those issues in the classroom. This is especially the case in my own field, philosophy. I teach courses mainly in...
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