Psychology for the Short Attention Span I’ve been away from writing on this site for a while for a couple of reasons. The first was that the site was constantly being hi-jacked so that you, my friends, were forced to fight your way through full page ads to reach the …
“I can’t believe this is happening. . . to me.” We’re good people, right? Or we try to be. And yet we suffer. We start out each day with a plan, an intention toward kindness, and sometimes even a list. And then reality steps up and dents our serenity. It …
Cold Turkey Quick Fix Are you ready to be less predictable and downright mysterious? Now that you have owned your responsibility for your reaction habits (The motto: This is unfortunate, inconvenient, and unpleasant, but not a disaster unless I decide to make it one.) and you have been successful in …
Impractical Psychology On this New Year’s my mind goes back to Ellen, the thirty-three-year old mother with breast cancer who, after she’d been informed that she had from twenty-four to forty-eight of consciousness left, called me for help. Me? What did I know? I was a twenty-five-year psychologist barely out …
Practical Psychology: What Works and What’s Nuts . . . For any change effort to make a difference in a relationship or experience, we must switch attention away from what other people are thinking and doing and direct attention toward thinking about and better understanding our own emotions and behavior. …
Practical Psychology: What Works and What’s Nuts …I have fired only one client. Mrs. X. Mrs. X, a fifty-one-year-old divorcee, came to see me because she’d heard that I work from a theory of family systems and she had a family problem. Or, at least her daughter and her husband …
Can a Good Psychologist Take Away the Guilt? . . . The Case of the Guilty Boss . . . There are a lot of notions out there about what happens in a session with a psychologist. The most common stereotype is that a client sits down with a psychologist, …
