A father recently came into my office consumed with anxiety. “I’m having trouble sleeping,” he told me. “My high schooler is an exceptionally talented soccer player and her ill-equipped coach is messing... Read more »
Being single in the U.S. seems to be steadily on the rise since 2020. About 41 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 are single. About 51 percent of men under... Read more »
Three quarters of a century ago, the preeminent cultural historian Jacques Barzun wrote, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” Baseball favors a measured, pastoral... Read more »
No one goes to therapy as their first intervention. When faced with a problem, no one’s first instinct is, “Guess I’ll start counseling.” In the old days, people facing a problem or... Read more »
The main reason that Willa isolated herself while caring for her disabled husband, Dan, who was paralyzed from a massive stroke, was that she was afraid all her emotions would spill out... Read more »
It seems that every cause has a designated day or month to raise awareness for that individual ailment. Well, September is upon us, and it is designated as IIH Awareness Month. Thirty... Read more »
If we learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it was that Zoom calls would, for most people, replace live face-to-face meetings. With it came an implied list of virtual rules the likes... Read more »
There is no agreed-upon definition of mindfulness within Buddhism, as the myriad strands of the religion bring to it their own understanding of the tradition and interpretation. However, as mindfulness has established... Read more »
Human beings have a psychological need for certainty, for closure, that frequently outruns the evidence that would make such certainty reasonable. This is a special problem in criminal justice. Hundreds of DNA-based... Read more »
Up to 72% of women exhibit perfectionistic traits, with 63% of those traits being considered maladaptive, or largely harmful to one’s well-being (Muscemi et al. 2022). This means that many women are... Read more »