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Sex and Insecurity: Part 2
Remember back to your first relationships: was one person the pursuer and the other the pursued? Especially when you were experimenting with what it meant to like and then love someone, there can be...
View ArticleConfidence: Are You on Your Case or on Your Side?
Turn your Beatings into LearningsThe main question people have after they understand the value of Emotional Intelligence is: How do I raise EI for myself and others? Here I will explore one competency...
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Jodi, Joran and Casey: On the Psychology of Evil
Jodi Arias has been convicted of brutally murdering, with extreme cruelty and premeditation, her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. Today, the jury was declared hopelessly deadlocked regarding...
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Love, Justice, Vengeance
We’re on a mission from god.~ The Blues BrothersLove, actually.~ British filmIt was another bad day for God and his mono-theism. Two men killed a third man with butcher knives and cleavers. They gutted...
View ArticleMad About You
Simple jealousy starts as a feeling of discomfort at the prospect of losing reward or affection to someone else. In complex jealousy, the prospect of loss feels like unjustifiable self-diminishment;...
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Untreated Depression Linked to Telomeres, Aging, and Disease
Untreated depression creates biological changes that accelerate aging and increase the risk of life-threatening diseases. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) can trigger changes in immune cell function and...
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Psychiatric Disorders in Maine's Medicinal Cannabis Law
Today's blog post is a transcript of my testimony in support of the proposed Maine law, LD 1062, “An Act To Add Conditions That Qualify for Medical Marijuana Use”which I delivered at the State House in...
View ArticleIs Criticism Of DSM 5 'Antipsychiatry'?
The American Psychiatric Association has never once addressed the substantive questions raised about DSM 5. Instead, it has always followed the Public Relations recommendation to endlessly repeat the...
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Does Early Academic Prowess Predict Later Success?
As you probably know, I am interested in smart thinking. I spend a lot of time writing about how to improve your thinking skills. I also argue that anyone can get smarter by learning more about the...
View ArticleHow to Not Be Racist
I am occasionally racist— and so is most everyone in the USA. Even if we don't think we are. Race is all around us, often in ways we often don’t realize. We can be less racist, and even move away...
View Article4 Surefire, Smarter Ways to Lower Your Child/Teen's Defiance
Yelling and heavy duty consequences usually backfire as attempts to lower your child's or teen's defiant behavior. If your child or teen is defiant, here are four surefire strategies to greatly reduce...
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Sex, Romance, and Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth
Last week a story emerged in various media outlets about an 18 year-old woman, Kaitlyn Hunt, who was being prosecuted for having a sexual relationship with a basketball teammate who was only 14. It is...
View ArticleOn Monogamy
Three conversations in one week on this subject have propelled me to explore it here. One couple who came to my counseling office is struggling with forming an open and honest relationship after more...
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When I’m Not Okay and You’re Just So-So
Ariel Gore Interviews Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore I wanted to interview Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for my Psychology Today blog not just because she’s penned one of the most important memoirs of the...
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What to Do About Your Teenager’s “Eye-roll”
What to Do About Your Teenager’s “Eye-roll” If you are or have been the parent of a teenager, or have ever spent more than a few hours with a teenager, especially when they are around their friends or...
View ArticleCheck it out online: Binge Eating Disorder Week
Some of you may have read this post I wrote a while back, about the website, Beutiful, devoted to battling fashion-mediated body ideals and empowering individuals to make their own decisions about what...
View ArticleStop Toxic Thoughts From Destroying Your Loving Relationship
As described in my book, Why Can't You Read My Mind?, if relationship partners harbor internalized, hidden toxic thoughts, reflective listening drills may not evoke these underlying empathy depleting...
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The ACT Approach to Self-Acceptance
Be willing to stand in the hurricane to do what is best for yourself.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT-pronounced like the word "act"), developed by Steven Hayes, Ph,D. and others offers...
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Body Music: My Personal Experience of Aging
I feel music inside me. I want to record this music. I want you, the reader, to listen to the music that my body makes. It is not that I want to hear the music, I already do. I want to have some way to...
View ArticleI'm Conflicted About a Break-Up
Hi Dr. Greenberg, My name is _____, I’m a junior in high school. I don’t know if you normally answer questions (and I fully understand if you don’t) but I was reading a lot of your other work and...
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