Why does he make me feel this way?
What was going through my mother’s head when said such hurtful things to me?
Can’t my boss tell that his words cut me down and make me feel so small?
These are examples of our thinking sometimes when we feel hurt, ashamed, or angry – that the other person or […]

For nearly all US college students, summer vacation is nearly over. But for many of them, “vacation” is a bit of a misnomer. Plenty of college students have spent the past three months as busy as ever: slaving away at competitive internships, for example, or taking summer classes to “get ahead” academically. For […]

Suddenly it’s a new world once again, as states take their independence seriously and realize that they are not beholden to our federal government for laws they disagree with. The law in question is the forced adoption of the 21-year-old alcohol drinking age, basically federal law since 1984 (states who do not adhere to the […]

The Star Tribune brings us a piece earlier this week on the “boom” in psychotherapy practices, ostensibly because of the down economy:

Schoener is, again, seeing more of those things. “We’re busier than ever, and we haven’t had any recent publicity or visibility,” said Schoener, executive director of the Walk-In Counseling Center in Minneapolis. “It’s quite […]

Going back to school means facing many challenges both academically and oftentimes socially. Unfortunately, for many kids, a big part of these social challenges is bullying. In fact, according to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP):
“Surveys indicate that as many as half of all children are bullied at some time […]

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According to the breathless proclamations of the researchers of a recently published study (and also a Wired Science news report on the same), you’d think so. Until you look at how the study was designed.
Research results are fantastic things — they have the ability to add to our knowledge on a subject of interest. But […]

Habit Patterns (1954) hails from the Psychology for Living film series by McGraw Hill Book Company, with an accompanying textbook by Sorenson and Malm. It was targeted at 1950s teens. I’d hate to see what questions they asked the class after showing this hilariously harrowing film.
“It’s a little late for tears, isn’t it Barbara?” […]

Kay Redfield Jamison is a great speaker and a recent lecture video captures her mix of expertise and enthusiasm. Exuberance: The Passion for Life is about positive emotions often overlooked by psychology and psychiatry, while asking when does passion turn pathological? Jamison talks about how exuberance changes all of us by creating leaders adept at […]

Six weeks ago, we reported on how Kings County Hospital let a patient die while staffers stood and watched. The patient had psychiatric concerns. We have no idea what happened to the humanity of those staffers (who are hopefully long since gone from the hospital and are having trouble finding gainful employment at a new […]

Contrary to popular thinking, medications for child attention deficit disorder (ADHD) are not always the best first-line treatment. Instead, parents should seek out behavioral treatments according to new research presented this past weekend at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association.

That’s because while medications address ADHD symptoms such as restlessness and fidgeting in a […]

Last Friday, The View dedicated an entire show to plastic surgery. In particular, they featured a segment with a 15-year-old girl who needed a breast reduction. In addition, she believed that she also needed liposuction, because, despite working out, she couldn’t get rid of some fat around her stomach. Her mother, concerned that she might […]