Archive for April, 2008

Humor As a Key to Child Development

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The things that children find funny tell us a great deal about their level of development and what is on their minds. There is a connection between the 2-year-old who bursts into a fit of ...
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Get More Out of Psychotherapy: Collaborate with Your Therapist

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The decision to work with a therapist is never straightforward, but there are times in life when we just need that extra emotional support. While we may have loved ones who will help us ...
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In-Depth: Understanding Dissociative Disorders

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Dissociation is a common defense/reaction to stressful or traumatic situations. Severe isolated traumas or repeated traumas may result in a person developing a dissociative disorder. ...
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Are Your ‘Money Myths’ Holding You Back?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
According to social learning theory, our attitude toward money is learned behavior that is passed from generation to generation. Money hoarders live by the phrase "but I might need it someday" and resist spending, sometimes ...
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Recommended Books on ADHD

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand attention deficit disorder (ADHD)? We recommend the following: Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through ...
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Recommended Books on Bipolar

Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand bipolar disorder (also called manic depression)? We recommend the following: Madness: A Bipolar Life By the author of ...
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Recommended Books on Depression

Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Looking for a book to help you or a loved one better understand depression? We recommend the following: Active Treatment of Depression Addressing his fellow professionals in the mental ...
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Madness: A Bipolar Life

Sunday, April 20th, 2008
By the author of the groundbreaking memoir Wasted about her struggle with eating disorders written nearly a decade ago, Marya Hornbacher is back. This time with a look at her struggle with bipolar ...
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Trust and Vulnerability in Relationships

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A willingness to be vulnerable is a significant feature of lasting relationships — ones in which partners are allies, not foes. The need to form a mutually protective alliance is innate, according to psychoanalyst John ...
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Cohabitation: Issues That Affect Intimacy

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Maybe you've been together for a number of years and moving in together seems like the next logical step. Maybe it's a matter of saving money. After all, why pay rent at two places if ...
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Streamlining Your Life

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
People frequently complain about a lack of time. Is there a realistic way can we steal back precious hours for what we really want to do? Streamlining your life may be the answer. Call a ...
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Manic: A Memoir

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I read Terri Cheney's Manic: A Memoir with a bit of suspicion. While living a Jackie Collins-like lifestyle as a Beverley Hills entertainment lawyer to the stars, she endures ECT without anaesthetic (and bit half ...
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Comfortably Numb

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Charles Barber's Comfortably Numb is an important book and deserves to get the same kind of attention Listening to Prozac got in 1993. What Barber has done is no less than introduce America to psychotherapy ...
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