As a therapist, I have two specialties: autism and posttraumatic stress disorder. Although my early research into PTSD focused on victims of rape and sexual abuse, as I expanded my practice, combat... Read more »
Do you back down when setting boundaries or allow others to mistreat you? Do you ignore your own needs to satisfy someone else’s? Do you dismiss or minimize your feelings? Do you... Read more »
Growing up in New York, I understand how humor can be hurtful. Sarcastic barbs that diminish a person are not humorous at all. Yet, held lightly, humor can soften painful edges, ease... Read more »
For 35 years, I taught a course called “Psychology and Law” in a small college town in Wisconsin. Every year I asked my students the same question: Where are the high crime... Read more »
While growing up, almost all of us on one level or another have inherited some negative traits from our parents and authority figures. Perhaps we have a tendency to be stubborn and... Read more »
This post is Part 2 of a series. In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the experience of telling your partner that he’s hurt you only to be blindsided by... Read more »
A few years ago, I set out to answer a narrow, almost tactical question asked of me by the incomparable Dr. Marty Seligman: What makes a police officer run toward gunfire when... Read more »
When a parent falls ill, siblings – some of whom may not have had much contact in recent years – are suddenly thrown together again and required to avoid falling into old... Read more »
More than two decades after their release, Coldplay’s Parachutes (2000) and A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002) remain emotionally resonant in a way that many commercially successful albums do not.... Read more »
Sometimes the most healing words are not spoken but heard. When fathers listen without explaining themselves, old wounds begin to soften, and there is hope for a new beginning. Source link Read more »