Welcome to Chronotherapy!
What is Chronotherapy? A recent development in biopsychology, based on more than 30 years of controlled clinical trials that began at the National Institute of Mental Health and spread worldwide....
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Sorry, But This is Why You Can’t Be Friends with Your Ex
Reese’s peanut butter cups have always made me sick.This morning, I ate two for breakfast. I have had a terrible stomachache since then.You may ask, why I eat them, even when I know they will make me...
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Synesthesia: Is It In The Genes?
Dr. Ricki Lewis knows a thing or two about genetics after decades in genetic counseling and multiple books and academic papers. Her latest book, a narrative nonfiction title The Forever Fix has been in...
View ArticleAfter Brain Injury: Post-traumatic Stress Grips Caregivers
November is National Family Caregivers Month. Even more than the accolades and recognition extended by communities during November, most caregivers want national attention to the mental health issues...
View ArticleStealth Dogs Steal Food in the Dark and Snatch it Quietly
Just about everyone who lives with a dog has a story or perhaps many tales about how their companion is an Einsteinian genius with an incredibly rich and deep emotional life who even knows right from...
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The Gift of Having a Tiger in Your Life
I have recently seen the movie, Life of Pi. Maybe you have too. Personally, I loved the movie, but even if you don’t or wouldn’t, you probably learn or would learn to appreciate the tiger in the story....
View ArticlePriming Performance
Self-control on the playing field is over-rated… or at least active efforts towards it. There is no doubt that unchecked anger and drifting attention are detriments to performance. Yet, how to...
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Delivering Bad News, Redux
My heart began pounding as I listened to the sound of the dial tone in my ear. After three rings a woman answered groggily and uncertainly, "H-hello?""Mrs. Peterson?" I asked. My voice trembled...
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Tantrum-free Holiday Season
Oh, my! Quite the holiday meltdown. Imagine yourself on the other side of the camera. Are you laughing so hard you're crying? Making a mental note to refill your Xanax prescription? Or melting...
View ArticleSkill at Substance Use
We don't ordinarily think of substance use as involving skill. But the concept of skill at substance use is essential in treatment, harm reduction, and prevention.The Pre- and Modern History of...
View ArticleWhen and Why Did People Stop Whistling?
Remember Harris Mackim from Catcher in the Rye? You probably don’t remember his name. I didn’t either and I spent years of my adolescence reading and re-reading Salinger.But if you read the book even...
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Are you Profiling, Profiling, or Profiling?
When I was writing The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds, which is based on the popular television series, I realized that the word ‘profile’ has picked up so many different meanings over the past...
View ArticleWhy Friendship is the Key Relationship of the 21st Century
At the emotional heart of singlism– the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and discrimination against people who are single – is the devaluing of all of our peer relationships that are not sexual. Matrimania–...
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Feel Like a Cat, See Like a Bat
When deprived of a sense, the brain may go to extraordinary lengths to compensate for the particular lack of input. For example, some blind individuals become human echolocators, using sound cues from...
View ArticleThe End of The 50 Minute Hour?
On January 1, 2013, new coding procedures will go into effect for mental health services. Our Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used to bill insurers for services, and psychiatry coding...
View ArticleLegalization of Marijuana Is Okay
Readers of this blog know that addiction is a psychological symptom, a compulsive behavior driven exactly like other compulsions, and readily understandable and treatable. This perspective can be...
View ArticleNarcissism vs. Authentic Self-Esteem
You may have heard about two studies last year on self-esteem in college students. A New York Times article reported that, when given the choice, most college students prefer to receive a boost to...
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Running Away from the Holiday Blues
Some people love the holiday season.I'm happy for those folks and try not to ruin their fun as I slog through November and December. Like many others, I have my own reasons for finding the...
View ArticleCheating 101
It always takes me a little time to process these stories about men cheating. Not that they ever vary. It’s always the same old saga every time. But no matter how often it happens, it is so...
View ArticleI'm Not Gay, Straight or Bi--
The pioneer sex researcher Alfred Kinsey wasn't in search of categories. When he asked his subjects about their desires, activity, and fantasies, he placed them along a continuum from same-sex to...
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