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What Every Therapist Needs to Know In the Wake of Violence
Two short weeks that feel like an eternity, after the senseless killing of 20 children in Newtown—how do families, a community, a state, and an entire nation, come to grips with the violence and the...
View ArticleCognitive Enhancement without Drugs
Everyone would like to increase their mental performance. A new study shows a simple way to boost cognitive performance markedly without resorting to cognitive enhancing drugs or...
View ArticleNew Year's Resolutions
I'm a big believer in New Year's resolutions. They prompt us to be mindful: to think about our values and our ideal selves, and to set behavioral goals rather than drifting along in our habitual...
View ArticleCognitive Enhancement without Drugs
Everyone would like to increase their mental performance. A new study shows a simple way to boost cognitive performance markedly without resorting to cognitive enhancing drugs or...
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Small Unicorns:Update on DSM 5 Bipolar Disorder in Children
Ellen Frank, Ph.D., a distinguished psychologist and member of the DSM 5 workgroup on bipolar disorders recently lamented that the DSM IV criteria for bipolar disorder mixed type were too stringent....
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A Psychotherapy Wish List
After more than a century as a profession, therapy is in need of a little remodeling. In this season of lists and resolutions, I decided to come up with ten wishes for the therapy profession as a whole...
View ArticleThe Difficult Child: Hope & Coping for Frustrated Parents
Like many parents today and others who came before me, I have one of those children who is, in turns, remarkably sweet and intensely difficult. In a word, my child can be difficult, prone to mood...
View ArticleIf you hear God speak audibly, you (usually) aren't crazy
In the Bible, God spoke directly to Abraham. He spoke directly to Moses. He spoke directly to Job. But to your neighbor down the street? Most people reading the ancient scriptures understand these...
View ArticleHappy New Year, You're Fat
They started appearing last week; the ads for weight loss. The Weight Watchers New 360 appeared first. Two brochures on the first day, a letter the third, and four emails yesterday. I have also heard...
View ArticleTrue Happiness Rarely Lies at the Bottom of a Shopping Bag
We all want to be happy. Some of us derive happiness from different places than others, with varying degrees of success. A lot of commercial advertising would have us believe we need newer and better...
View ArticleWhat does dopamine actually do?
Dopamine is a famous chemical. It holds a prized position in the annals of popular science as the “reward” drug. Countless articles refer to the latest studies of foods, sex and exercise as boosting...
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Presenting Your Best Self to an Audience
One of the most important career-building and leadership skills you can learn is to speak effectively to an audience. I dedicated a chapter of my book, Self-Promotion for Introverts®, to this topic,...
View ArticlePsychology and Criminology
A defendant is on trial for murder. His attorney has filed a notice that the defendant is going to rely on the defense of insanity. The client has been non-responsive with a flat affect. As is standard...
View Article13 Tips to Make 2013 a Year to Fondly Remember
Like practically everyone else, you have something that you want to do to improve and enjoy your life. However, how do you stop procrastinating? You want to lose weight, exercise, and feel less...
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Procrastination, Precommitment and The Fiscal Cliff
In an April, 2011 post titled “Governmental Procrastination,” I wrote how precommitment can be used to curb the US national debt. Essentially, precommitment is acting now to prevent you from acting...
View ArticleIn Too Deep: Twelve Tips For Backing Out Of Collaborations
Something has shifted. You regarded him as your ally, collaborator and confidante, but now, not so much. You let him get in too close, too intimately involved and now you want to create some distance....
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Extreme Crimes of 2012
As I prepare for my undergraduate course on extreme violence, I decided to make a list of incidents from 2012 for the first day’s discussion. The year in review is rather disturbing. Some of these...
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How Khan Academy Will Help Find The Next Einstein
Earlier I wrote an article, Five Lessons from Salman Khan on the Future of Education, that included core insights from Sal that I distilled from our full discussion.Sal kindly shared his thoughts on...
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Be Like Water – A New Year’s Plan
Picture this: It is late December. In a small mountain village, in the Berkshires, the first snow of the season is falling heavily. It is almost midnight. The temperature is below zero and...
View ArticleHow to Boost Tween Happiness & Popularity? Promote Kindness
Feeling good and forming friendships: certainly, these are meaningful goals for people of any age. But for tweens (kids ages 9-12), they can be especially meaningful. During this sometimes bumpy time...
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