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Enjoying Your Emotions

By Thomas Scheff, Ph.D. on November 15, 2009 in Let's Connect

Emotions have a bad rep these days. Especially in medical research, emotions are usually the enemies. This orientation is understandable with respect to rage, but laughing and crying also are treated as pathological. There are many studies of a new diagnosis called Emotional Lability (EL) and the even more extreme one, Emotional Incontinence (EI). Read More

Enjoying Your Emotions
by Thomas Scheff, Ph.D.
From Speech Worrier to Speech Warrior: How to Give a Better Speech
by LisaMarie Luccioni, M.A., A.I.C.I., C.I.P.
Mom Flies Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Eliezer Sobel

The Latest

How Reality Checking Can Save Your Life and Your Dreams

By Jane Bolton, Psy.D., M.F.T., C.C. on November 22, 2009 in Your Zesty Self

Never again would I not ask about what kind of a relationship another person wants before I actually entered one. I had learned the painful results of not doing a reality check. Read More
The Foundation of Self-Esteem

By Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. on November 21, 2009 in The Dance of Connection

Anxiety, by its very nature, will lead you to lose objectivity about the complex, wonderful, flawed, ever-changing person you are.
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Health and insurance and politics and behavior

By Art Markman, Ph.D. on November 19, 2009 in Ulterior Motives

This post will make you uncomfortable. You should read it anyway.
I'm going to talk about health behaviors and dangerous diseases. And we don't like to think about disease and death, and so we avoid it.
Instead, we talk around disease and death. For example, right now, there is a real uproar over the recommendation that women should not start having regular mammograms until they turn 50. Opponents of health-care reform have taken this recommendation as the first shot in the war to ration health-care to Americans. Read More
Online Mindfulness Meditation Therapy for Stress Management

By Peter Strong, Ph.D. on November 18, 2009 in The Mindfulness Approach

To successfully manage stress and anxiety, you must learn to recognize and neutralize you habitual emotional reactivity. Mindfulness Meditation offers the tools for doing this, and you can learn mindfulness meditation therapy online through a personalized email correspondence course. Read More
So Much To Know!

By Harris B. Stratyner, Ph.D., CASAC on November 16, 2009 in Recovery For Life

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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The Relationship Between Self-Injury and Sexual Orientation

By Tracy Alderman, Ph.D. on November 16, 2009 in The Scarred Soul

I will present a very brief overview of self-injury and then postulate a connection between self-injury and the LGBT population and why prevalence of self-injury might be higher among this group. Read More
Who is the Most Violent Person in Your Family?

By Susan Newman, Ph.D. on November 15, 2009 in Singletons

You may be surprised.
Last week twenty-year-old Jim told his mother that he has always been leery of his younger, but larger brother, Andrew. Jim's cautiousness around Andrew dates back to the time Andrew shoved him off a dump truck breaking both of Jim's wrists. Read More
Enjoying Your Emotions

By Thomas Scheff, Ph.D. on November 15, 2009 in Let's Connect

Emotions have a bad rep these days. Especially in medical research, emotions are usually the enemies. This orientation is understandable with respect to rage, but laughing and crying also are treated as pathological. There are many studies of a new diagnosis called Emotional Lability (EL) and the even more extreme one, Emotional Incontinence (EI). Read More
Letter to a Worrier’s Loved One

By Shawn T. Smith, Psy.D on November 12, 2009 in Ironshrink

Anxiety can be a challenge for family, friends, and loved ones, too. Unfortunately, the words that come most naturally are sometimes the worst words to use.
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H1N1 (Swine Flu): Healthy Paranoia, Panic or Propaganda?

By Allison Conner, Psy.D. on November 12, 2009 in Therapy in Mind

Swine Flu, H1N1. We can’t escape the news if not the germs. If you feel overwhelmed and confused about the level of danger, you probably are not alone. Read More
ONLINE PSYCHOTHERAPY IS EFFECTIVE

By Peter Strong, Ph.D. on November 12, 2009 in The Mindfulness Approach

Research shows that Online Psychotherapy is effective, especially if it uses specific strategies such as Mindfulness Meditation Therapy, NLP and CBT. Read More
Sometimes All You Need Are Forgiveness Pants

By Christine Louise Hohlbaum on November 11, 2009 in The Power of Slow

Forgiveness is one of the best antidotes to whirling out of control. Getting to slow can be as simple as pulling on a pair of Forgiveness Pants today. Read More
Anger in Marriage II: Fear of Compassion

By Steven Stosny on November 10, 2009 in Anger in the Age of Entitlement

One of the clichés of pop psychology is that anger is the most complex emotion. Actually, anger isn't that complicated. Although we've developed convoluted ways of thinking about it, it's really a simple response to a perception of vulnerability, threat, and entitlement. Compassion, on the other hand, can get really complicated, which is why it is so misunderstood. Read More
From Speech Worrier to Speech Warrior: How to Give a Better Speech

By LisaMarie Luccioni, M.A., A.I.C.I., C.I.P. on November 10, 2009 in The Image Professor

I'm sure you've read advice on how to become a better public speaker. Classic counsel is to know your subject and practice your speech. While this instruction is considered timeless for a reason, I add this thought: Whatever. I'm taking these two as an automatic given. Here's what you really need to appreciate, those subtle nuances most speakers never think to contemplate and use. Here we go. Read More
My Runaway Underpants

By Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. on November 8, 2009 in The Dance of Connection

Over coffee with friends recently, the conversation turned to embarrassing moments. The story I told involved a pair of underpants creeping out one leg of my jeans and onto a busy street in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Mom Flies Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

By Eliezer Sobel on November 7, 2009 in The 99th Monkey

Several weeks ago my mother, in her eighth or ninth year of Alzheimer’s Disease, and 63rd year of marriage, began wielding knives and trying to stab people, verbally threatening to kill my father, throwing dangerous glass objects and screaming bloody murder at her own image in the mirror—“I DON’T WANT YOU HERE, GET OUT!!!” My brother and I finally intervened and had her temporarily hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, hoping we could buy more time for her at home through stabilizing her on the right meds, and getting Dad more help. Read More
Fort Hood Exit Strategy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a Military Psychiatrist

By Alison Rose Levy on November 6, 2009 in Tribal Intelligence

By definition, a military psychiatrist is under military authority-- is that a conducive environment for building therapeutic trust? Couldn't being a military psychiatrist readily induce outsized cognitive dissonance in just about anyone? Read More
Anger in Marriage: Failure of Compassion and the Rise of Contempt

By Steven Stosny on November 4, 2009 in Anger in the Age of Entitlement

Most marriages end in a whimper, not a bang. The final rupture is not caused by too much anger or abuse or infidelity. Rather, most marriages die a slow, agonizing death from too little compassion. Read More
Mindfulness Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Boulder, Colorado

By Peter Strong, Ph.D. on November 1, 2009 in The Mindfulness Approach

Mindfulness Psychotherapy offers an effective way of working with the core imagery at the heart of PTSD. In this article, Peter Strong, PhD, an expert in the field of mindfulness therapy, gives an overview of mindfulness and its application for PTSD. Read More
The Uncertainty Paradox

By Jeff Bell on October 29, 2009 in Beyond the Doubt

I know a secret--a deeply profound, life-changing secret--one learned through the school of hard knocks in one of its most grueling courses. It is nothing short of the very key to living with uncertainty, this secret. Okay. Here goes: The secret to living with uncertainty is . . . Read More

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Simple and powerful techniques for coping with anxiety and worry.
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Beyond the Doubt
An inside perspective on life with OCD and the lessons of uncertainty.
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Side Effects
From quirky to serious, trends in psychology and psychiatry.
By Christopher Lane, Ph.D.
The Scarred Soul
Understanding and ending self harm.
By Tracy Alderman, Ph.D.
Urban Mindfulness
Finding peace in the middle of it all.
By Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.

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