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 ...
Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter One of the quintessential “bad” mommy characters that many are familiar with is Joan Crawford, a.k.a. “Mommy Dearest.” Who can forget that terrifying scene from the movie with the wire hangers? Personally, I do not ...
Are You Feeling SAD? During the winter months we often hear people mention feeling “blue” or “down.” There are others that speak of SAD or Seasonal ...
Almost Addicted: Is My (or My Loved One’s) Drug Use a Problem? Harvard Medical School’s “Almost Effect” series is increasingly valuable in a world where mental health issues are starting to be seen on a grayscale rather than in black and white. The series, which includes Almost a ...
Finding Freedom in Forgiveness Forgiveness.
It’s amazing how much power an 11-letter word holds. It has the power to release freedom and happiness. ...
Thirty Days With My Father: Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition that many soldiers suffer from after serving in a war. We don’t often heard about the children of those soldiers suffering from the same condition. However, growing ...
Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions There is an old joke that asks, “How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?”
Answer: “Only one, but it has to want to change.”
Of course, changing ourselves is usually a lot harder ...
