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A Tickling Way to Reduce Fear
Afraid of the dark? Airplanes make your palms sweat? Forget about anxiety-reducing drugs. Relief from fear is at your fingertips—tickling. According to a new study published in the journal Neuroscience...
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Work Can Be Play If You Find Your True Calling
I often tell my college and post graduate students that they shouldn’t search for a job or even a career after they complete their education. Rather, they should search for their vocation and calling....
View ArticleRead a Poem Today
Poetry has been a healing tool since the shamans, who chanted poetry for the wellbeing of the tribe. In modern times, Freud recognized the genuis of poetry: ‘Not I, but the poet discovered the...
View ArticleThe Heart of Engagement
Over twenty years ago I developed the concept of personal engagement at work. The idea was that people can be not simply involved in their work, committed to it, or satisfied with it. They could be...
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Respect, Not Friendship, is What a Manager Needs
Friendship is one of the greatest things in life, but my opinion as a longtime manager is that it has no place in management. Respect, not friendship, is what a manager needs.While this may seem basic...
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Livin' the Dream, Beyond Your Dreams
I’ll bet you want to be in great health, to be strong and feel boundless energy? Well, you can exercise ‘til the cows come home, eat perfectly, take the best supplements in the world and do everything...
View ArticleIs NYC friendly to the autism community?
I have already shared with you Alex’s story (still waiting since September for a bus route) regarding special needs busing in New York City (see previous post here). Now on top of this we have a bus...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Sexual Freedom
Excited yet embarrassed, Claudia, a twenty-eight-year-old I interviewed for my book on twenty-something women and sexual freedom, told me about a one-night stand she’d had the night before our...
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Asian American Mental Health on the Airwaves
February 7, 2013Hello Pacific Heart readers! I’m looking forward to Valentine’s Day – which can be a celebration of relationship and relatedness, and not just romance. In honor of the human need for...
View ArticleWhen Is a Sex Difference Real?
According to a recent study in the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, men and women are not all that different when it comes to their sexuality (Carothers & Reis, 2013). No...
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Sexual Intercourse and Talking Together: What's the Same?
When people talk together, equal airtime creates a relationship in which both people count. Same with the symetrical, or non-symetrical, pleasuring of sex.When people talk together, being considerate...
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Interview with Christopher Castellani: All This Talk of Love
Christopher Castellani’s new novel, All This Talk of Love is the third installment of a trilogy about the Grassos, a lively and complex Italian-American family, their history and their struggles with...
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What’s “Wall-Socket Sex”?!
This intriguing term is one I first encountered in reading the eminent sex/relationship therapist David Schnarch’s Passionate Marriage(1997). In this seminal work, the author claims that he was himself...
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I Have Faith That I’m Not So Different From Everyone Else
Happiness interview: Pamela Druckerman.I first heard about journalist and author Pamela Druckerman when her book Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting came...
View ArticleThe Power of Sacred Self-Promises
Every Sunday, young Vernon Bush and his family would pile into the car and drive 150 miles to the church where his dad would preach. Like most churches of that time, there was a small gospel choir that...
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A 'Post Truth Era'?
A recent article struck a strong chord with me about the state of affairs today in politics, knowledge, and government. Namely, the article described the current state as being one of ‘wicked...
View ArticleManaging the "Bad Neighbor" That is Chronic Pain
Millions of Americans suffer from chronic pain, which takes a significant toll on virtually every aspect of one’s life. Some of my patients have described it as like having a “jackhammer in one’s...
View ArticleLetter to a Young Student
LETTERS TO A YOUNG STUDENT: 1.Dear Professor:I am a 17-year-old student, and I recently ran across your book, The Abyss of Madness. I don’t know much about psychology, but I was able to read and...
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Will The Walking Dead Jump the Shark?
Can a zombie show jump the shark? Folks are going to watch in droves the season premier of The Walking Dead on Sunday night, and I can practically feel the pop culture zombie buzz leaping...
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At the Speed of Glaciers: Problems Seeing and Believing
Seeing is believing. How can you believe something if you can’t see it or feel it? How can you believe something that seems the opposite of your own personal experiences? I think this is part of the...
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