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November 2006
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With time, a bit of elbow grease, and an understanding of your own character strengths, you can become friendlier, more caring, and less stressed by life.
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You may feel bound to your timid demeanor, your stifling job, or your rancorous relationship, but there is one realm over which you unquestionably have control: your own head. Herein, five principles of change to turn you into a self-starter.
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Kiriana Cowansage can run complex neuroscience experiments and sketch beautiful portraits. She melts at the sight of an animal, but she balks at the concept of love. Such paradoxes define women with Asperger's syndrome.
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Americans consult alternative health practitioners some 600 million times a year—more often than they visit family doctors. In that spirit, PT sought out seven natural health pioneers: holistic innovators who specialize in everything from plant power to prayer.
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The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are.
More from this issue
You 2.0
How to upgrade your thinking, reboot your attitude, and reconfigure your life.
by Carlin Flora
Keeping Interrogation Clean
Should therapists be involved in prisoner interrogations?
by Matthew Hutson
Altered Ego
Do you want to change your personality--just a little? Here's how.
by Joann Ellison Rodgers
Nature's Champions
From plant power to prayer, meet these natural health pioneers.
by Lori Oliwenstein,Jay Dixit
PT Bookshelf: From Parenting to Perceptions
Book reviews on parenting, sex, madness and the brain.
by Matthew Hutson,Katie Gilbert,Orli Van Mourik,Kaja Perina
In Brief: Sleeping Lovers to High Tea
The benefits of keeping tea hot and sperm cool.
by Matthew Hutson,Jessica Heasley,Brandon Keim
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