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....
Dr. David P. Steinberg | Posted 05.23.2008 | Living
Very few emotions are as destructive to the self as shame. When children are raised by authority figures that use shame as a method of teaching or con...
Caroline Presno | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
I'm seeimg an interesting trend in my clients during their therapy sessions -- if there were actual diagnoses for this trend, we might use terms like "election mania" or "post-election disorder."
Jane Shure | Posted 05.01.2008 | Living
Our critical inner voices function to keep us feeling bad about ourselves by diminishing our self-confidence.
Sarah Seltzer | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living
In order to enable teens to gain knowledge, we first have to trust teens. And like the viewers who can't stand Sophie on In Treatment, there are far too many lawmakers who would rather push them out of view.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 03.24.2008 | Living
Not many people can afford therapy anymore. You may need it, want it, know that it will help you, but you have to be pretty comfortable financially to get it.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
It shouldn't be only therapists and priests who know what's truly going on under the surface of people's lives, because it's information we could all use to deepen our understanding of what we have in common.
Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment
It's amazing how, once you're in treatment, what happens in the therapist's office starts to seem like your true life, and what happens outside becomes mere fodder for the main event of dissecting it in that isolated room.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 02.13.2008 | Living
For lots of people there's still a stigma attached to seeking treatment because it's taken as a confirmation of mental illness, or a sign you're so spineless you can't do anything on your own.
Rosalie Greenberg | Posted 01.16.2008 | Entertainment
Let's just hope that Britney's angst is acknowledged for the pain it is creating, not just the revenue it produces.
Keith Ablow | Posted 01.08.2008 | Living
Britney should understand that psychiatric medication can be an extraordinary tool for healing, but that soul searching with the right guide is indispensible.
Jane Shure and Beth Weinstock | Posted 12.31.2007 | Living
When we are unaware, and have learned to disregard the conversations that take place internally, we are more at risk for feeling bad about ourselves.
Alan Miller | Posted 12.13.2007 | Living
Our therapeutic-minded culture is increasingly redefining every day human situations in to some variation of 'psychological trauma.'
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.13.2007 | Living
I have been a clinical psychologist for more than two decades and have found that most of my fellow mental health professionals talk far less about morale than do people in athletics, business, the military, and many other walks of life.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.30.2007 | Living
If you have to talk to a stranger about your sex life, Esther Perel will do just fine.
Mona Ackerman | Posted 09.20.2007 | Living
The only question you want to ask yourself before leaving your three month therapy is, Do I usually leave relationships as they deepen? And is there an issue coming up in therapy that I don't want to pursue?
Kate Schmier | Posted 09.10.2007 | Living
Was I hearing things or did my shrink just tell me that she wanted to set me up with her son? I sighed with relief. I guessed this meant I wasn't crazy after all.
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Mona Ackerman | Posted 06.19.2008 | Living