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Violence May Be the Answer
As our nation copes with last Friday’s horrifying ordeal, one that left twenty young schoolchildren and six dedicated educators dead, we wonder what we could have done to prevent this tragedy from...
View ArticleSelf-Parenting 101
How would you treat yourself if you were someone you loved? This is one of my favorite questions. It is not only instinctive to take good care of someone you love, but also to take good care of...
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Newtown, CT massacre brings more hand-wringing
Our nation's collective inertia surrounding mass killings is perhaps best illustrated in a YouTube clip splicing together speeches by Presidents Obama, Bush (II) and Clinton. Lots of hand-wringing and...
View ArticleSchool Shootings: Calming Kids Naturally
In the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, I'd like to suggest some natural remedies for kids who are traumatized - kids who can't sleep, or are having nightmares, or afraid to go to school - times when...
View ArticleThe Loss of Passion in Marriage
This piece (slighty edited) appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review on December 2, 2012.IN fairy tales, marriages last happily ever after. Science, however, tells us that wedded bliss has but a...
View ArticleLet’s Bench The Elf on the Shelf
I wrote the following as a guest blogger for Justin Vacula and the Skeptic Ink Network. You can find the original post here, but I thought I should re-post it here for anyone who happened to miss it....
View ArticleThe Roots of Evil and Violence
Why would anyone deliberately kill young children? Many of us have wrestled with this question in the aftermath of the tragic killings in Newtown, CT.In times of war, great or local, the children of...
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What Men Love About Women
This is hardly a news flash, but it turns out that men really like women. A lot. How do I know? Earlier this year, I conducted an online survey asking men and women what they like most and least about...
View ArticleRemaining Rational in the Wake of Connecticut
The recent horrific events in Connecticut have spawned a bizarre series of debates that glop together questions regarding how we can best care for our psychiatrically ill patients, and corresponding...
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10 Truths I've Learned from People Who Didn't Go To College
I grew up in an extended family of folks who for the most part didn’t attend college. Many of them were working full time before they left high school, and a few (like my father) went to night school...
View ArticleHow to Feel Good About Your Body
Feeling Good About Your BodyRose, a 55-year old fundraiser for a woman’s college with a sharp with, swims every morning at a local gym and lives in a fifth floor walk-up in the East Village. She has...
View ArticleMay the Force be with Us
In one of the most abhorrent scenes in the history of cinema, a young child comes out of hiding, looks up to the adult entering his classroom, and says, “Master Skywalker, there are too many of them,...
View ArticleThe Gift of Hope
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was anyway. But let me back up. See, I got into research because I was fascinated by the wondrous things a human body could do. I began in kinesiology...
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Would you know atheist discrimination if you saw it?
Discrimination against nonbelievers in America is so overt and widespread that most of us are completely desensitized to it.If you’re a rational American – religious or nonreligious – you probably roll...
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Food Plan Commandments
Food plans are a standard tool nutritionists use treating all eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, eating disorders-Not Otherwise Specified. One of my hardest working...
View ArticleDaughters Too Benefit from Influence of Good Dads
My daughter worked six days a week as an intern in her father's company before she departed for her freshman year in college. She assembled press packets and gift bags; coordinated publicity events...
View ArticleWhy People Get Bored
I hate it when people say, “I never get bored.”The other phrase I hate is “If you’re bored, you’re boring.” I work hard to make conversations and situations as interesting for myself as I can. But if I...
View ArticleMy Mayan Apocalypse Blog Post
So. Bad week. End of the world feel to things, huh? The 9th grader came home yesterday looking like she needed to say something. There was a rumor going around school that someone is planning a...
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A Christmas Stalking
I never expected to be at the wrong end of a knife, especially not on Christmas Eve. I was new at being a hotline crisis counselor, and had little experience with serious psychiatric illness. Although...
View ArticleNo More Massacres
New tragedies might continue, but the answer is not only about providing more security to schools, factories, post offices, malls, or colleges…Guns are usually blamed for the horrific tragedies, but...
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