Q: My niece just committed suicide. She is the 20-year-old daughter of my older sister. Needless to say, my sister is devastated and doesn't understand why this happened. I, of course, hesitate to tell her that Pam had long been on a path of self-destruction with drugs, anorexia, and depression....

Q: I have a real problem with my kids and it really upsets me!

Q: My shrink just fired me! Can he do that?

I have been seeing my psychologist for about two years. I thought we were advancing well in therapy. I felt comfortable in his office. I was working through a lot of issues about my parents --...

Q: I have a question. For many years, a lot of people wondered if Hillary would leave Bill. It was a topic of much speculation by pundits and normal folk alike. Most people felt that she showed weakness by not walking out on a philandering husband. In fact, many women...

Q: I have a wonderful son and a wonderful daughter-in-law. They have been married for five years and during that time we have seen them often and always have a good time. Often they join our other two younger children for grand and delicious family get-togethers which now -knock on...

Q: My father just had a stroke. He is 62 years old, and has always been active and healthy. His speech is fine, but his motor skills are impaired. The family is in shock. My mother and sister and I only want to take care of him and to return...

Q: I am in a crisis. I feel huge distress. I'm not usually like this. Most of the time, I am a healthy, free-wheeling 70-year-old with lots of energy and spice. I have children and grandchildren and I love spending time with them all. At the same time, I have...

Q: Let me ask you what you think of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor and one-time religious mentor. We keep hearing and reading that Wright must be narcissistic. How else can one explain his apparent disregard of the damage that he is doing to Obama's campaign? Wouldn't...

Q: Sex in the workplace. I know it has been discussed a lot, but now it is my issue. I believe my story is a bit different. I don't know what to do.

Q: The video of a girl being beaten up by six other girls is very upsetting to me. I have a 16-year-old daughter and I live constantly with the fear of anorexia, drugs, pregnancy, reckless driving, idiotic boyfriends --and dozens of other horrible possibilities that, with a moment's reflection,...

Q: Don't you get the idea that some sort of underlying psychology is at work in the way some politicians seem to be running away from the Clinton camp? Take Bill Richardson. He endorsed Barack Obama even though Bill Clinton made him ambassador to the United Nations and Secretary of...

Q: I have a friend who is dying. We have been friends for over 30 years, ever since high school. We've been through a lot together - a virtual lifetime talking through jobs, marriages, divorces, and even as we discovered one night, wanting to date the same fantasy girl. But...

Q: I heard someone say that Barack Obama needed the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright as a surrogate father figure because his own father abandoned him. And I heard someone else say that Eliot Spitzer had a compulsive need to be more successful in life than his enormously wealthy and self-made...

Q: Very simple: Eliot Spitzer?

A: Now, what knowledge could I impart that, to the discredit of my profession, has not already been imparted by every "relationship expert," every "male ego expert," and, amazingly enough, every "infidelity expert"? (I swear.) Obviously there are political, financial, legal and, of course, personal...

Q: I am a 56 year old woman with a family and a career. Needless to say I am busy. But lately I have to also take care of my mother. My father died five years ago and since then my mother has been a pain in the ass. I...

Q: I am so glad Juno didn't win the Oscar for best picture. I am also relieved that Ellen Page didn't win as best actress for playing the 16-year-old Juno MacGuff. If they had won, I wouldn't know how to deal with my daughter. As it is, I am having...

Q: I have been married twenty-five years, but I don't know if I want to stay married. I'm confused. How do I distinguish between a real crisis in my marriage and just another bad spell (of which we have had our share). I try to keep in mind all the...

Q: All of my friends are thrilled with Barack Obama. I feel some of that myself and I also appreciate the excitement he's injected into the presidential race and the vast numbers of new people he's attracted to the political process. Still, I can't help feeling sorry for Hillary Clinton....

Q: I am so anxious. I can't seem to make a decision about anything. My husband doesn't want to hear about my anxiety anymore and my friends either think I am joking or are bored sick listening to me complain. I'm a lawyer --usually, I am a decisive, organized, and...

Q: I know that everyone talks about the influence of money in the relationship between a man and a woman, but how about between a mother and a daughter?