What accounts for the passionate irrationality of right wing mobs?  For that matter, what accounts for the self-destructive anti-government attitudes of people on the Right who depend on government and would, in fact, benefit from current health reform?  The answer lies in their intolerance of helplessness, dependency, and innocence, and in the effect of unconscious guilt in producing paranoia. Read More

The age-old conflict between women's need to cuddle and gaze after sex and men's need to roll over and sleep (or, in the old days, to have a cigarette), involves distinctly different attitudes about sex and intimacy, both of which are held up as "normal" but both of which are equally neurotic. A psychoanalyst explains what's really going on. Read More

Golfers--especially those of the male variety--can often be seen in various states of frustration, fury, and despair while playing a game that's supposed to be fun.  They have Frustrated Golfer Syndrome.  Fortunately, it can be cured. Read More

Sexual boredom is universal in long-term intimate relationships.  Its cause is primarily psychological and not biological.  It results from a collapse of separateness and an inhibition of selfishness in the sexual relattionship. Read More