Book Review: Smart Thinking Most of us probably assume we do a pretty good job of thinking as we go about our work or personal lives. Art Markman’s book, Smart Thinking, shows us how wrong many of us are -- ...
The Song Remains the Same “I really enjoyed playing with the idea of ‘who are we without our memories’? Do you make the same choices? Do the same things make you happy?” - Allison Winn Scotch
Imagine waking up one ...
The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment It is amazing how quickly a to-do list can pile up.
Have you seen that bit of dastardly magic happen in your life? You start the week with three priority-related tasks; by Monday night, you ...
OCD and Isolation One of the most heartbreaking aspects of my son Dan’s descent into severe obsessive-compulsive disorder was his progressive ...
How to Stay Sane As the years progress, it can seem harder and harder to feel that we are in control of our mental well-being. In How to Stay Sane, Philippa Perry takes a therapist’s knowledge and experience ...
Book Review: Shrunk Riveting. Humorous. Quirky. Satirical.
In other words, I could not put it down.
Shrunk, a novel by Christopher Hogart, tells the story of Henry and Helena Avalon, a couple that moves in next door to the ...
April is Autism Awareness Month Naming a time for awareness brings an issue into focus. It gives us a reason to do something extra (such as ...
The Portable Mentor: An Expert Guide to a Successful Career in Psychology When a book is 410 pages long, calling it The Portable Mentor is a tad misleading. Edited by Mitchell J. Prinstein, this comprehensive second edition reminds me very much of a textbook. I can’t see many students porting ...
The Secrets of As a Man Thinketh James Allen, a retired English businessman living at the turn of the 20th century, devoted his post-business life to writing and contemplation. In 1902, he published a text called As a Man Thinketh. A long essay, ...
Where Does Self-Esteem Come From? When assessing clients I often ask, “on a scale of 1 -10, where would you rate your self-esteem?”
During a recent discussion ...
Love 2.0 When Sigmund Freud wrote The Interpretation of Dreams, he took a familiar phenomenon and looked at it through a more discerning lens. In doing so he changed forever the way we think about this natural ...
Book Review: Do Over Carol Anne Leathers wrote Do Over as an autobiographical story turned fictional. Leathers puts her life into the character Reb, whose story focuses on overcoming childhood abuse and centers around the question, “What would life ...
