Dear Doctor,

I knew it. Any chick capable of dealing with a tornado, juggling three men with lots of emotional baggage, a dog-lover and brave enough to confront witches and blustering men hiding behind loudspeakers had to have a cool story we didn't know about. She's got her canine companion, some sassy...

How could you not love a book that starts "singing" David Bowie's "Changes" ("This is the story of my "ch..ch..changes, which took me from insanity to clarity")? In her book iWant: My Journey from Addiction and Overconsumption to a Simpler, Honest Life
(Health Communications, Inc., 2009), the television journalist and...

By Belisa Vranich and Reedu Taha

Call it stubborn pride or male anxiety, but mention neutering Fido in front of a man and he'll cross his legs ... "uh, do we have to?" Since the ancient Spartans fought with swords and had six-pack abs the male libido has been associated...

By: Dr. Belisa Vranich
Michael Cordera, Esq.
 
Police officer Jared Rodriguez was doing pretty well hot-tubbing and feeling up his twin brother's girlfriend until she realized she was being duped. Add to this already-in-daytime-TV-production that his wily scheme...

Apart from the understandable anxiety over lifestyle change (from limiting yourself to window shopping to foreclosing your home), I keep getting asked why we're seeing extreme reactions and herding mentality* regarding the financial crises. Real losses and risks aside, how much does psychology have to do with it?

The Seven...

Don't look now, but there is someone, someone nearby, waiting to steal (or at least borrow) your spouse from right under your nose.

What is the good news? Or even just the new news? Turns out infidelity is an equal opportunity employer; women are turning to men who don't...

Disney's Golden Child Miley Cyrus is dating an older man? Heavens, first naked pictures and now this? I know what comes to mind -- those creepy polygamous cult pictures of thin, nondescript, middle-aged men holding bonneted Laura Ingles-like tweens at their sides. Or the "granddaddy" of them all, 63 years...

Are you a morning person or a night person? Sweet or salty? Cardio or weights? Cats or dogs? Whether you consider yourself an "animal person" or not, the real story behind former Mets minor leaguer Joseph Petchka's killing of his girlfriend's tabby is that you can't profess to be a...

All week long I've had emails with a variation of the following:

"Am I a slut or do I have a sex addiction?"

Rather that give you just my opinion, I gathered some friends and colleagues -- experts in the field of sex in one way or another -- to...

As of late, I feel as if we've gone from liking clean smells--think Murphy's Oil Soap, Lemon Pledge, and even the faint smell of bleach--to craving products with aromas of tangy fruity blends that sound more like Jamba Juice than detergents.

Perhaps beauty and shower products are the most...

Cal quit his job as a blog commentator at CNN in Washington, DC when he became so disillusioned by the hypocrisy of media that he couldn't stand being part of it anymore. He came back to New York and back to making large sculptures for the Madagascar Institute for Burning...

Think you know women? Think your man is all that simple? Think again. Sure, some of these are generalizations you may not fit into, but shedding any light on the topic of gender differences can make figuring out your sister in law, boss or stepson a tiny bit easier.

Although I can answer most "Dear Doc" questions I receive to some extent or another, some stump even me. This week I got this one - any suggestions?

I just joined a gym in the neighborhood and noticed a really skinny girl working out. By the time I get there,...

"That dog is ugly," a girl from the high school across the street spat at me as she walked by with her friends. I've heard it before - sometimes it still hurts my feelings, especially when I think about how much better Brenda is than when we* first found her....

This past week on the Today Show, Tiki Barber asked Dr. Ian Kerner* and me about the book 365 Nights: A Memoir Of Intimacy. In the book, a woman gives her husband the gift of sex every day for an entire year. Most male friends I've talked to about...

I'm getting tired of studies about Bad Boys. The latest one, which appeared last Wednesday in the New Scientist, describes the "dark triad" of traits these men have: impulsive thrill-seeking behavior, narcissism, and deceitfulness. The study reports that these men have numerous short-term sexual relationships. It implies that women are...

The word "anticipation" makes me think of slow-moving ketchup and Carly Simon. Maybe you think about award ceremonies or being hungry before dinnertime, but when I think of "anticipation," I most often think of carefully-choreographed sexual tension. Patients talk about the feeling of pining, a deliciously uncomfortable sensation that is...

Dear Doc,

My patient dropped her voice to a whisper, though we were the only two in the office. "She's such a 'See you next Tuesday'." It took me a minute. People usually don't mince words in therapy; they let loose and actual words--"cunt," in this case -- fly.

I'm in the...