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 »
Justin Garson’s new book The Madness Pill has been interpreted in different ways. In a review in the Wall Street Journal, psychiatrist Sally Salal describes it as a story of the scientific... Read more »
Source: Amistad Cristiana / Unsplash Most of us don’t think of the option of forgiving life. It might be easier to see that forgiving God is something we’re more comfortable considering. I... Read more »
“Events of mutual aggression are unavoidable in the course of a life lived together, but, by the same token, the possibility of their clarification and resolution carries with it the possibility of... Read more »