Psychology Articles

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• The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook
  In 2008, Margaret Wehrenberg published The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques:  Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it.  Now a workbook has been released to accompany the ...
• Rewire Your Brain for Love: Creating Vibrant Relationships Using the Science of Mindfulness
  The thesis of Dr. Marsha Lucas’s new book is simple: By changing your brain, you can change your relationship. In fact, the title says it all: Rewire Your Brain for Love. The basic idea at ...
• The Art of Confession: Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty
  We live in an age of frequent and easy confession. People seem eager to share private information and experiences that would have been kept as closely guarded secrets in years past, perhaps guarded by shame ...
• Sexuality and Marital Intimacy
  A good marriage is best friends with passion. Without the passion, you just have a friendship. For some, ...
• Ideology, Psychology, and Law
  Ideology, Psychology, and Law is a wonderful collection of essays edited by Jon Hanson, the Alfred Smart Professor of Law and Director of The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School. This ...
• White Elephants
  As I cried, I wanted to believe it was the alcohol that induced Mom’s words.  I had to believe it was the alcohol.  I don’t want them.  The words rang in my ears.  That’s the ...
• Easy Steps to Reconnect: A Guide for Emotionally Avoidant Dads
  It was torture for Jason when his 13-year-old ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Ryan Howes
  Every month we chat with one clinician about everything from the trials and triumphs of being a ...
• Before The World Intruded: Conquering The Past And Creating The Future
  Michele Rosenthal’s memoir, Before The World Intruded, is the story of her struggle with a life-threatening illness and the trauma it created. Rosenthal shares her battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), leading us from her diagnosis ...
• Therapists Spill: 11 Myths About Therapy
  In past pieces in the “Therapists Spill” series, clinicians have shared everything from ...
• How to Overcome Obstacles to Positive Change
  We all are faced at times with trying to persuade others to make behavioral changes, or needing to do so ...
• Adolescent Tragedies and My Teenager
  Once again I am writing about a terrible tragedy. Fifteen dead children. Fifteen lives ...
• Life is Full of Transitions
  Retirement: "removal or withdrawal from service, office, or business;" "withdrawal into privacy or seclusion." No wonder this word retirement seems so inappropriate ...
• How Can I Improve Intimacy in My Marriage?
  It has become too common a refrain: There isn't enough time. This is the excuse put forth ...
• Problems of Codependents
  Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes ...
• Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional
  Sometimes the title of a book is so intriguing that you can barely contain your eagerness in wanting to begin reading it.  Such may be the case for you as well with Better Than Normal: ...
• Symptoms of Codependency
  The term codependency has been around for almost four decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, first called co-alcoholics, researchers revealed that the ...
• Do You Love a Narcissist?
  It’s easy to fall in love with narcissists. Their charm, talent, success, beauty, and charisma cast a spell, ...
• The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (And the World)
  Nice.  On its own, the word “nice” can carry a variety of tones.  It can imply “good” or “generous;” on the other hand, if it is used sarcastically, it can imply the complete opposite.  How ...
• Stress Management Practices: What Works and What Doesn’t
  Stress is unavoidable. This statement is a fact that most people are highly aware ...
• Kiss That Frog! 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work
  The late comedian George Carlin had a great line about self-help books: “If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That’s not self­-help. That’s help!” While we can all ...
• 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder
  Babette Rothschild, the Series Editor of 8 Keys, explains in her introduction that the purpose of the 8 Keys series is to provide intelligent, thoughtful help from highly experienced professionals.  In this case, Carolyn Costin ...
• Can You Benefit from EMDR Therapy?
  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy has been declared an effective form of trauma treatment ...
• Tips for Successful Toilet Training
  Few issues in child-rearing create as much anxiety for mothers and fathers as toilet training. And few issues generate as much ...
• Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
  Depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness, yet at the same time also one of the most poorly understood. Most people have felt emotionally depressed at some point in their life. ...