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The image of an earthquake can be used as a metaphor for Post Traumatic Growth, to communicate, in a sense, that it is not the quake itself that produces growth, but that the process in the aftermath can, as people distinguish between what is sturdy and what has been disabled, and as they rebuild a new set of stronger, more sustainable structures. We are in a global moment of attending to the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti---is this also a teachable moment for Post Traumatic Growth? Read More

 By Janine Driver, author of YOU SAY MORE THAN YOU THINK (Crown, 2/16)

Everyone knows our brains control our bodies, but did you know our bodies can control our brains too? Read More

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As Valentine's Day approaches, my thoughts focus in unique directions, given my experience as a therapist working exclusively with infertile clients. Couples who have difficulty conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to a healthy birth often find themselves shifting their love making to "baby making." Read More

"Masturbation is normal, so don't feel ashamed" may not be adequate information for kids seeking answers today. Unfortunately, it's simpler to tell them to eat their veggies than explain that masturbation can relieve sexual tension in the immediate term-yet make subsequent sexual frustration worse.

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Get ready for Avatar-meets-Xbox-meets-Freud's-couch as techies like USC's Skip Rizzo usher psychotherapy out of the 1980s and into the information age. Just in time to become one of the Ten Coolest Therapy Interventions. Read More

Lots of couples end up in the marriage therapist’s office every day.  But hardly ever does someone end up there who actually understands what love is.  In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is rare for anyone to ever end up in any therapist’s office who actually understands what love is.

The question is, how long can we stand as a (psychological) nation divided - where we pick some traits to determine people's existences, and others to disrgard as we assist them in joining the rest of us?

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You may think that your diet soda tastes the same (maybe even better) than the sugar-sweetened variety, but your brain has a mind of its own when it comes to recognizing and discriminating calories.

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