Addiction

Hours-long Internet surfing that contributes to severe weight loss or gain, obsessive e-mail checking and freaking out (beyond the initial few minutes) when your cell phone goes missing may be signs that you have a digital addiction.

Executive Director Cosette Dawna Rae, MSW, LSWAIC heads up an Internet addiction recovery program called RESTART in Washington State. Read More

Regardless of how professionals choose to band together symptoms of personality disorders, rehabilitation facilities must have staff who are aware of them and more importantly, know how to address them during treatment.

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Since retailers make much of their year's profit over the holidays, expect to be bombarded with highly stimulating ads these next months. Given the deeply sluggish economy, sales will be tantalizing. What's an overshopper to do? Keep it real. Read More

Evolutionary psychology generally focuses on the ways in which life's age old pursuit of biological reproductive success shapes our mind's activities. Evolution and behavior are related in another way as well.  Evolutionary epistemologists like me are interested in how the minds activities are evolution by other means. Read More

With synergy it's not that the whole is more than the sum of its parts, it's less. Read More

The subject of beauty, especially as it radiates outward from the recesses of our minds, behavior and life choices, is my passion. Read More

My patient smiled a toothless grin and told me, "I feel fine, doc." But he was far from it. His liver enzymes had risen into the thousands, his skin was a pasty yellow I didn't need the benefit of sunlight to see, and his albumin (a protein whose level indicates the liver's functional capacity as well as a patient's degree of malnutrition) had fallen far too low. Read More

Recovery is the ability to tolerate your feelings without the need to medicate, or engage in self-destructive or self-defeating behaviors and thoughts.  Read More

 Looking to make a change in your life? Why does your friend lose 150 pounds in six months? Ever wonder what would lead to your mother stopping drinking after so many years? Psychological research and expert opinion has a lot to tell you. Listen up and the first thing to change may be your perspective! Read More