Archive for September, 2012

• My Journey to Loving Myself Following Sexual Abuse
  Historically any article with “self-love” in it has given rise to a ...
• Brain Fluid Changes Predict Alzheimer’s 10 Years in Advance
  New signs of future Alzheimer's disease have been identified by ...
• Companion to an Untold Story
  Marcia Aldrich’s Companion to an Untold Story is the author’s attempt to make sense of her close friend’s suicide. In the time leading up to the unfortunate event, Aldrich’s friend Joel hatched a plan to ...
• Seeking Mental Health Care: Taking the First, Scary Step
  Despite increasing acceptance and public awareness, there is still a stigma associated with seeking help from mental ...
• When Fantasy Crosses the Line
  Fantasizing about another person may seem like a harmless indulgence, but it actually draws us closer to ...
• Doubt & OCD: How Do You Make a Decision?
  We are very lucky to live in a society of unlimited possibilities. From what clothes to ...
• When Friends Become Housemates: Making it Work
  Sharing space can be a wonderful first step to independent living. It can be ...
• Everyday Kindness: Shortcuts to a Happier and More Confident Life
  It’s likely a safe assumption that most people would like to be considered kind.  It is one of those adjectives that warms the heart and endears others to us.  However, how do you really apply ...
• Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind: Revolutionary Methods to Release all Barriers to Health, Healing and Happiness
  In his latest book, Dr. Grayson articulately explains holistic healing, where a person can control reality through their thoughts and feelings to promote wellness and heal illness. This approach is supported by ancient wisdom as well as ...
• The ADD Myth: How to Cultivate the Unique Gifts of Intense Personalities
  A few hours after I finished reading The ADD Myth, while pondering something that had occurred during the day, it suddenly hit me with great clarity what author Martha Burge was describing when she said ...
• The Oxford Handbook of Work and Aging
  When my grandmother was 74-years-old, she was fired from a job at a hardware store that she’d held for more than 30 years. They fired her because of her bad hearing, a symptom of her ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Joyce Marter
  Every month we feature a different clinician, who gives us a snippet into their work and life. ...
• Better Management of Stress and Its Effects
  The dictionary defines stress as “the importance attached to a thing,” or “the physical pressure, pull, or ...
• Stillpower: Excellence With Ease in Sports and Life
  "Stillpower: Excellence With Ease in Sports and Life" turns the conventional wisdom of sports on its head. Garret Kramer, a former collegiate ice hockey player and the founder of Inner Sports, presents a unique approach advocating ...
• Brains of Children with ADHD Show Protein Deficiency
  New research on children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder has found a deficiency ...
• Pride & Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child’s Emotions and Solving Family Problems
  "Pride & Joy" is a wonderful resource for caretakers who are looking for a parenting book that stands out from the myriad of others. Kenneth Barish, a child psychologist and professor at Cornell University, encourages parents ...
• Why Friends Disappear When Crisis Turns Chronic
  It’s a common experience: Something goes wrong in a family. A child is diagnosed ...
• A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery
  Originally published in 1994,  "A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps" is considered a landmark book in the addiction field. It has sold more than 300,000 copies. What makes the workbook so successful is the down-to-earth ...
• Surviving Your Breakup
  As a society, we place great emphasis on finding “the one.” We pressure ourselves to find the perfect lifemate for ourselves. Often, ...
• The World Book of Happiness
  This book's subject is self explanatory. It is simply about the complex issue of happiness. It attempts to explain what happiness in its various forms means to all of us.  By “all of us,” I mean ...
• Therapists Spill: 8 Ways Clients Spoil Their Progress in Therapy (& How to Change That)
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• Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms: Ego Defense Recognition in Practice and Research
  We all have them: ego defenses. Thomas P. Beresford refers to them as, “Psychological adaptive mechanisms.” As humans, when we are stressed, we find a way to cope. This helps survive. Identifying how people do something ...
• The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders
  In "The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders," J. Gayle Beck and Denise M. Sloan collaborate with a group of world-class experts to address the current research and clinical knowledge concerning traumatic stress disorders. Oxford Handbooks ...
• Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: The 4-Step Plan to Overcome Worry and Create the Life You Want
  "Freeing Yourself from Anxiety" is filled with practical, reassuring, and even fun strategies to help anyone deal with anxiety. What is anxiety? Psychologist Tamar E. Chansky defines it as “the first reaction of a sensitive system ...
• Why Can’t I Change? How to Conquer Your Self-Destructive Patterns
  In Why Can’t I Change?: How to Conquer Your Self-Destructive Patterns, Shirley Impellizzeri outlines the psychological issues surrounding attachment from birth through adulthood. Using the latest research on brain science plus well-supported theories, Impellizzeri does a solid job ...