Mark Goulston

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Eh!? Who needs sleep?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Matthew Lieberman, Relationships, Mark Goulston, Sleep Deprivation, Amygdala, Couples, Sleep, Living News

Often, in troubled relationships, instead of admitting their disappointment, couples resort to one of two ways of avoiding it. They either shut down or they become enraged.

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The Ft. Hood Killer - Guilty, But Not Evil

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Ft Hood Shooting, Soldiers, Mark Goulston, Major Hasan, Ft. Hood, World News

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was not a bad person. He was even possibly a good person. But he was a very sick person who did a terrible thing.

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Just Listen - Maybe You're Just Wrong (VIDEO)

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Marriage, Marriage Counseling, Mark Goulston, Communication, The Inner Life, Health, Living News

Recently when I see couples, families or individuals in which an Axis I psychiatric illness (depression, anxiety, bipolar illness, schizophrenia), is clearly not present, I offer them the following choice...

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Just Listen Microsoft - An Opportunist Does Not a Visionary Make

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Apple, Windows 7, Microsoft, Mark Goulston, Visionary, Business, Entrepreneurship, Living News

Opportunists are about extending a grasp in an already competitive environment. They are about being grabby, and when they have the clout of a Microsoft, about being "pushy."

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Just Listen (I Doubt It) Evolution Interrupted

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Evolution, Mark Goulston, The Los Angeles Times, Susan Salter Reynolds, Richard Dawkins, Living News

I am not an evolution doubter. I believe it is real. I believe it has happened to bring us to where we are now. However, I also believe that it is on hiatus.

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Just Listen - Modem Operandi: When Artificial Intelligence meets Emotional Intelligence

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Modems, Mark Goulston, Jason-Calacanis, Emotional Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Living News

After listening and caring about the needs of the world around us, a break certainly gives us a break, but what works even better is to have the world reciprocate by listening and caring about us in return.

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Just Listen -- Business Relationships That Last

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Goulston, Business, Relationships, Communication, Business Relationships That Last, New York Times, Drexel University, Ed Wallace, Amazon, Living News

Ed Wallace uses real-life stories, examples, and insights from his success as a sales leader to show you how to establish and maintain positive relationships, and the importance of credibility, authenticity, and integrity.

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Just Listen -- It's Not About Liberal vs. Conservative

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Liberals and Conservatives, Mark Goulston, Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, Left vs. Right, Living News

The real problem is those from both sides of the political spectrum who are filled with rhetoric -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing -- who rarely take action.

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Just Listen - Maybe Someday is Now

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone, Aging, Mark Goulston, Just Listen, Health Care, Just-Listen-Discover-the-Secret-to-Getting-Through-to-Absolutely-Anyone, Communication, Living News

In 1972 while attending medical school, I was working part time doing EKG's at a Jewish Home for the Aged. It was a clean and nice facility, but like most of its kind, a "waiting station" before people died.

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Just Listen to Mark Goulston

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Authors, Lifestyle, Relationship Advice, Keith-Ferrazzi, How to Listen, Keith Ferrazzi, Career Advice, Mark Goulston, Business, Just Listen, Advice, Living News

After watching Mark Goulston work, I can tell you why everyone from the FBI to Oprah pays attention when he talks about reaching people: his techniques, simple as they sound, really work.

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A Psychiatrist, Executive Coach And FBI Hostage Negotiation Trainer Provides The Secret To Getting Through To Anyone

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone, Listening, Dr Patricia Fitzgerald, Living News, How to Listen, Dr. Mark Goulston, Conversation, Patricia Fitzgerald, Listen, Mark Goulston, Just Listen, Living News

Have you noticed that the pace of our society seems to get faster all the time? People report having less in-depth, meaningful conversations, yet have more breadth of connection.

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Just Listen -- Obama's Education Speech to Children

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama Speech, Education, Mark Goulston, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Communism, President Obama, Blazing Saddles, Fearmonger, Right Wing, Capitalism, Town Hall Meetings, Living News

Over and over again, we see the right wing steadfastly digging their heels in before gathering, listening to and evaluating all the facts regarding going to war, education and health reform.

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Just Listen - Get Your Kid Off to the Best Start in School

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Children, High School, Middle School, Schools, Parenting, Mark Goulston, Future, Living News

Whenever your preteen or teenage kid has screwed up, teaching them a lesson after the fact isn't exactly the easiest task.

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Just Listen: Jaycee Lee Dugard

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Child Molestation, Mark Goulston, Trauma, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

Imagine Jaycee's personality as a car that was happily going about her life 18 years ago, before she was abducted by the Garridos and taken to the compound that we are now seeing pictures of.

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Edward Kennedy's Passing -- A Window of Opportunity

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Politics, Death of Ted Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Mark Goulston, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

It is 10:30 AM EDT on Saturday, August 29. As many of you, I am watching the funeral service of Senator Edward Kennedy. I am aware that you and I are also looking at a window of opportunity.

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Calling All Cynics

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics of Fear, Anger, Listening, Cynicism, Mark Goulston, Just Listen, Communication, Living News

Deep inside all skeptics and most cynics is a deep ache to trust again, but to do so without the fear of being let down, disappointed, betrayed or devastated.

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Just Listen: Giving Michael Vick a Second Chance

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Goulston, Forgiving, Forgiveness, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Michael Vick, Animal Cruelty, Dogs, Remorse, Living News

Michael Vick will need to realize that he triggered in his fans and certainly all animal lovers the 3 H's of Hurt, Hate and Hesitation to Trust. To reverse each of those he will need to respond with the 3 R's of Remorse, Restitution and Rehabilitation before those people will give him a second chance.

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Tiger Woods' Competitive Advantage

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Goulston, Competitiveness, Competitive-Advantage, Tiger Woods, Living News

Perhaps Tiger's greatest unforeseen advantage may not be a matter of his having a competitive edge, but rather how everyone else seems to lose theirs.

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Bridging the Financial, Political and International Divides

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Bill Clinton, Finance, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Mark Goulston, Arianna Huffington, North Korea, Living News

To most people it feels counter-intuitive to listen deeply to where the other is coming from. They worry that in doing so they will lose their advantage or be manipulated.

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Gates, Crowley, Biden and Obama: A Teachable Moment?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.02.2009 | Living

Read More: James Crowley, White House Rose Garden, Mark Goulston, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Cambridge Police, Henry Louis Gates, Living News

In truth, what maintains the walls between races, generations, genders and globally between nations is more "fearful aggression" than true hostility.

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The Michael Jackson Lesson

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Mark Goulston, Hollywood, Living News

Take 15 minutes every couple months, pause and look at your personal life, career, health, friends and family and ask yourself: "Am I on track with where I want to be in all of these?"

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The Secret to Peace on Earth

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Globalization, Mark Goulston, Peace on Earth, World, Peace, Communication, Living News

As a psychotherapist, suicide and violence interventionist, executive advisor, writer, author not to mention husband, father and son, listening has long been my greatest skill.

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Living Through Wanting to Die

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Suicide, Depression, Mark Goulston, Dying, Electroconvulsive-Therapy, Death, Health, Living News

Devastating illnesses can bring patients to the brink of a seemingly agreeable suicide. The role of the psychiatrist can be to look coldly through the pain and determine if there is a way to save the patient's life and make it worth enduring.

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