By Matthew McKay, PhD, New Harbinger Publications co-founder and publisher


The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is here, and it's dead on arrival. A few weeks ago, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) announced it will no longer fund...

By Sheela Raja, Ph.D., author of " Overcoming Trauma and PTSD

In recent months, there's been growing media attention given to the shocking number of veteran suicides. It is, indeed, a national crisis. Surely we can all agree that our veterans gave us...

The response to Paula Deen's revelation that she has Type 2 diabetes highlights the false "either-or" dilemma that plagues our culture's approach to eating (and most other things): good or bad, right or wrong, all or nothing.

Paula Deen's popular brand was based on her audacious use of ingredients...

By Olga Trujillo, J.D., author of " The Sum of My Parts "

My father, or Popi, as I called him when I was a child, did not speak English, only Spanish. My mother (Mame) also spoke Spanish as her first language,...

By George N. Collins, M.A., with Andrew Adleman, M.A., authors of Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame

At a recent gathering, I was speaking with a man about my job as a sex addiction counselor....

Michael met Cleo at the gym several weeks ago, and he has wanted to ask her on a date ever since. He is just waiting for one thing: a little more confidence. He believes that his chances will improve if he can eliminate his anxiety.

Perhaps you have experienced that...

By Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, author of "The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder" and "Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens"

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), created in the early 1990s by psychologist Marsha Linehan, is one of the newer psychotherapies...

By Ruth C. White, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.W., co-author of "Bipolar 101"

I am a strong African-American woman: I aced two challenging, concurrent grad school programs while pregnant; spent years of duty as a single, professional mother thousands of miles from family; backpacked alone through Central...

By Carol Krucoff, E-RYT, author of Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain

Yoga's booming popularity has resulted in some classes that are called "yoga," but are actually just yoga-flavored exercise classes. Students learn yoga postures -- such as Warrior, Tree and Downward-facing Dog --...

By Marcia Cannon, Ph.D., MFT, author of The Gift of Anger

From talk show hosts and political party candidates to newspaper headlines and popular books, so much of what we see and read has to do with anger. Anger has become big business. This certainly makes...

By Melissa Kirk, author of Depression 101

A fairly recent television ad for an antidepressant that shall remain nameless used the tagline "Depression hurts." And really, you couldn't say anything more truthful about this amorphous and much-studied yet little-understood condition. Depression can sap the life out...

By Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, author of The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook

There are many reasons why you may overeat. You may be a classic emotional eater -- someone who finds comfort in food and eats when happy, sad, angry, anytime you...

By Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, author of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder and The Bipolar Workbook for Teen

There are so many different types of psychotherapy out there nowadays, if you're dealing with emotional problems, how...

By Randi Gunther, Ph.D., author of Relationship Saboteurs

• Do you feel your partners value some of your behaviors at the beginning of a relationship but reject you for those same behaviors over time?


• When your partners begin to complain about those behaviors, do...

By Katy Hutchison, author of Walking After Midnight

On December 31st, 1997 my husband Bob excused himself briefly from our small dinner party to check on a teen's house party taking place down the street at the home of a vacationing friend. He...

By Sameet Kumar, Ph.D., author of Grieving Mindfully and The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination

Grief happens to all of us at some time in our lives. You may think that grief happens only after the death of a loved one, but you...

By Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D., author of 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD

Approximately 4 percent of the general population has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). You may be wondering if you have ADD - you have difficulties staying on task, and tend to interrupt...

By Bill Knaus, Ed.D., author of Fearless Job Hunting

Take this 10 question true-false job search success test, figure out where you stand, and use the results to build on your strengths and to identify where you can improve. The test consists of true or false...