Archive for June, 2012

• Double Time: How I Survived – and Mostly Thrived – Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins
  Jane Roper and her husband wanted to get pregnant. They were in their early 30s and finally felt ready. So Roper went off the pill, and the couple, as she puts it, gave it the ...
• Exploring Your Dreams: Q&A with Robert Moss
  Dreams can provide us with a wealth of information. But many of us dismiss our dreams. Robert Moss ...
• Living the Twelve Traditions in Today’s World: Principles Before Personalities
  One of the critical components of the highly successful Alcoholics Anonymous is its stated anonymity. Thus, it makes sense when authors Mel B. and Michael Fitzpatrick denounce the relatively recent trend of celebrities making their ...
• What OCD Feels Like: Being Absolutely Uncertain
  Mike's thoughts were driving him “crazy.” One thought would lead him into another and another. His anxiety would ...
• From the Living Room to the Bedroom
  In From the Living Room to the Bedroom, Bill and Ginger Bercaw aren’t afraid to get personal about the details and the intricacies of a relationship.  They are serious about intimacy and they don’t hesitate ...
• 7 Mistaken Assumptions Angry People Make
  “I guess I have an anger problem. I lose my temper pretty quick. But it’s not ...
• I Got My Dream Job and So Can You: 7 Steps to Creating Your Ideal Career
  When Pete Leibman was a senior at Johns Hopkins University, he spent his final two semesters in desperate search of a job. He had all the usual characteristics of a good hire: he went to ...
• Understanding & Coping with Cyclothymia
  It’s a disorder that leaves you at the mercy of your moods, but tends to be subtle enough that you may not ...
• [A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist
  [A]Musings of a Spiritual Atheist by Andrew J. Ackerman is a book about the author's journey from addiction to recovery.  Ackerman, the self-described hard-line "spiritual atheist," uses the book to offer his experience with 12-step ...
• How to be a Friend Indeed to a Friend in Need
  Friendship is easy when friends ...
• Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind
  The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology is a streamlined compilation of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), which use multidisciplinary views to help understand the human mind. The objective of this relatively new field ...
• Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
  When I ordered Dr. Shapiro’s book titled Getting Past Your Past, I was expecting a self-help read about how to deal with your past issues with some type of behavioral therapy. However, the subtitle made ...
• Daughters Need Fathers, Too
  Fathers, be good to your daughters Daughters will love like you do ~ "Daughters," by John Mayer We hear a lot about ...
• Top 25 Psychiatric Medication Prescriptions for 2011
  These are the top 25 psychiatric medications by number of U.S. prescriptions dispensed in 2011, according to IMS Health. ...
• The Chemistry of Joy Workbook: Overcoming Depression Using the Best of Brain Science, Nutrition, and the Psychology of Mindfulness
  The Chemistry of Joy Workbook is a unique and helpful 10-week program for people suffering from depression. This workbook gives readers a comprehensive, linear plan to follow, rather than a jumbled series of tips or ...
• Letting Your Kids Fight Their Own Battles
  Say your child was called a nasty name on the playground or didn’t get ...
• Hope with Eating Disorders: A Self-Help Guide for Parents, Carers and Friends of Sufferers
  Eating disorders are constantly in the news, and have been for some time now. Yet it’s quite astonishing to note how few people truly comprehend the psychological factors involved in them. Many are quick either ...
• Diet Rehab: 28 Days to Finally Stop Craving the Foods That Make You Fat
  It seems that you read or hear about a new diet every other month or so that promises to help you lose weight and keep it off.  Discipline and willpower to stick with the diet ...
• Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up
  What happens when the use of psychotropic drugs in children becomes part of everyday life? If you were a child or raised children in the United States in the last 20 or 30 years, you ...
• Brainpower Smart Study
  The term “studying” brings to mind the all-too-familiar caffeine-riddled cramming sessions, reading and highlighting random sections of a textbook the night before the big test. The student just wants to remember enough facts to score ...
• Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist
  Darcy Lockman left her journalism career to become a psychotherapist. Clearly a gifted writer, the decision could not have been easy. But she made it and stuck with it. After earning her doctorate, she needed ...
• OCD and Transitions in Life
  May and June are often months of transition. Within my own family, my son Dan graduated college last week and my daughter ...
• You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
  Anyone who has seen TLC’s popular TV show “What Not to Wear” will recognize the psychological issues discussed in Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner’s recently published You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You.  ...
• 5 Ways to Solve All Your Problems
  Got a problem? Who doesn’t? It might help to know there are five ways, ...
• Sacred Therapies: The Kundalini Yoga Meditation Handbook for Mental Health
  These are the kinds of books I find fascinating: novel approaches to old subjects. In Sacred Therapies: The Kundalini Yoga Meditation Handbook for Mental Health, David Shannahoff-Khalsa uses his yogic discipline to reexamine and provide ...