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Henry Kellerman, Ph.D., psychologist/psychoanalyst/practitioner, is the author/editor of more than 20 books. See full bio

November 25, 2009

Thinking Matters: Nov. 24, 2009 - Mate Selection

Thinking Matters: How and Why People Get Together
by Henry Kellerman, Ph.D.
Nov. 24, 2009

Mate Selection Criteria

What to look for in a mate? Have you chosen wisely? With respect to this issue, there are probably five factors in mate selection (choosing your life partner) that everyone uses - whether knowing it or not:

1. Read More

November 19, 2009

Do Psychologists Reject Science?

Do psychologists reject science (as Sharon Begley writes in her October 12, 2009 column in Newsweek Magazine)? Read More

November 12, 2009

Thinking Matters: Psychotherapy, Dreaming, and Psychoanalysis

Okay folks, here's the problem. Read More

November 7, 2009

Kellerman reply to Dr. Vee on Fort Hood violence

Yes, this is a good comment. I've referred to it directly in my blog entry
in analyzing the issue of how anger and ideology is linked to acting-out and
violence, to wit: "If the strength of the anger is stronger than the strength
of the resilience of the person, then the anger is likely to be acted out. Read More

November 6, 2009

The Case of Nidal Malik Hasan's Shooting at Fort Hood

There are various criteria used by any person's psyche (psychological processes) that will determine whether anger gets repressed or not. And, of course, if the anger is large or huge the probability that it will be repressed decreases and the likelihood of acting-out increases. Why is that? Read More

November 4, 2009

Thinking Matters: Remembering

This is my 3rd blog entry. In each of the previous two, I've spelled out the relation of the appearance of psychological symptoms to a person's repression of anger.

In this blog entry I will focus more on repression, but in this case it's about the issue simply of remembering. Read More

October 28, 2009

Anger Is the Key (Part2)

1. Your wish for something is thwarted;
2. You feel disempowered about that and of course angry about it (because anger is a reempowerment, and that's what you need - a reempowerment);
3. But, rather than express the anger, you suppress it, or more accurately, you repress it;
4. Because of this repression you will necessarily pop a symptom. Read More

October 23, 2009

Anger Is the Key

Love may make the world go ‘round, but anger is the key. Why is that? It's because we are all wish-soaked creatures and we all know that wishes don't usually get met. And then we get angry. And if sometimes wishes do get met, they usually don't get met exactly when we want them met. And if they do sometimes get met when we want them met, it's usually not to the fullest measure. Read More

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