Feeling Our Way

Turn in the direction of the skid.

Michael Karson Ph.D., J.D.

Psychopathology: Outmoded Intuitive Theories

Psychopathology is like trying to get around in your city using a map that is decades old and drawn by a child.

Psychopathology: Karen Horney’s Humanist View

Psychopathology uses imagination to replace rather than to develop ourselves.

The Medicine Man

When psychologists conceptualize human suffering as angst, despair, and ennui rather than as disease, then our "medicine" is very strong.

Conflict Resolution in Couples: Irrational Goals

Your partner cannot be both a perfect shield against infection and, at the same time, a relaxed roommate. You can’t marry Monica AND Phoebe, or Chandler AND Joey.

Conflict Resolution in Couples: Two Big Ideas

Some partners may not see the advantages of doing what’s best for the system.

Translating In-Person Therapy to Telehealth

Some approaches to therapy move online smoothly, and some don’t.

Stigma During a Pandemic

Once we stigmatize someone, we maintain our sense of our own humanity by demonizing the stigmatized.

A Global Health Crisis and the Storytelling Brain

Don’t be surprised when horror narratives and hero-worship supplant our rational responses to the coronavirus; it’s what we were built to do.

The Quest to Be Oneself

Why people have such a strong desire to be authentic.

Five Ways You Attract Narcissists

It’s hard to tell if your date is a narcissist because everyone is trying to look impressive on a date.

3 Reasons You Don’t Lose Weight

Do you look in the mirror with love or hate?

The Tyranny of Emotion

We need to learn how to manage our emotions, not be tyrannized by them.

How to Treat Your Flaws

All too often, “acceptance” means complacency with ourselves rather than an acknowledgment of our flaws, humility, and a desire to change for the better.