Psychology Library

• Introverts and the Quest for Quiet
  I’ve always been regarded as quiet. I revive myself through quiet time, reading, listening to music, or journaling. I have never ...
• Therapists Spill: How Being a Clinician Changed My Life
  Some professions have the power to change lives. For me being a writer has had a pivotal effect on ...
• Thanksgiving and Gratitude in Hard Times
  With Thanksgiving approaching, many Americans struggling with health, financial, and emotional problems find it challenging to feel grateful. Some ...
• Codependency vs. Interdependency
  I was surprised to learn that this grove of aspen trees is actually one organism, sharing one root system. Each of ...
• The Care and Maintenance of Friendship
  “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The teen I was talking with ...
• Therapists Spill: The Hardest Part About Therapy
  Our “Therapists Spill” series takes a behind-the-scenes look at clinicians’ personal and professional lives. Therapists have spilled everything from their life ...
• Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
  In his latest book, Are We Getting Smarter?, James R. Flynn tackles serious debates. Flynn is a psychologist, professor, and author of 12 books — most notably Where Have All the Liberals Gone? (Cambridge, 2008) and, ...
• Co-Dependency: Put the “I” in Independence
  Where is your power center? Is it in you or in other people or circumstances? Paradoxically, controlling people ...
• In Relationships, the Worst Offense is a Good Defense
  Respectfully receiving critical feedback is a key skill for a happy and healthy relationship. The ability to ...
• How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children
  Codependency causes much unhappiness. Research shows that codependency is learned in families and passed on ...
• 10 Fantasies to Examine Before Choosing to Become a Parent
  Contemplating parenthood can be like entering the field of poppies ...
• 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 ...
• Better Management of Stress and Its Effects
  The dictionary defines stress as “the importance attached to a thing,” or “the physical pressure, pull, or ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God
  Many people have moments in their lives when they experience “wholeness" and are filled with a complete sense of peace and joy. Everything seems “right." Many of these people claim that these moments are proof of ...
• Emotional Chaos to Clarity: How to Live More Skillfully, Make Better Decisions, and Find Purpose in Life
  Phillip Moffitt’s life is right out of that classic story in which a financially successful man -- one who seemingly has it all -- realizes he needs something more. He realizes there's something deeper, something more ...
• Therapists Spill: The Moment I Realized I Am Enough
  Many of us feel like we have to earn our ...
• Almost a Psychopath: Do I (Or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and a Lack of Empathy
  Do I or does someone I know have a problem with manipulation and empathy? This is not just the subhead of the book "Almost a Psychopath," but the underlying question that authors Ronald Schouten and James ...
• The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Thirty Truths About Fear and Courage
  “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look at fear in the face,” said First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. “You must do the thing in which you think ...
• Unlock your Fidgety Child’s Ability to Learn and Focus
  Teaching is hard enough, but when you have a child who has a hard ...
• Starting a New School Year Following a Summer of Change
  Kids’ backpacks don’t only contain their lunches and homework. If their lives aren’t stable, their cares ...
• 5 Wrong Reasons for Going to College
  It’s the summer before college. You’ve been preparing for it for years -- studying, researching ...
• Through the Unknowable: Family Life with Depression, Alcohol, and Love
  Self-help books about how to cope with loss or trauma typically tend to fall into one of two simple categories: those which are written by professionals, and those which aren’t. The former tend to be ...
• Six Degrees Of Social Influence: Science, Application, and the Psychology of Robert Cialdini
  Regardless of whether you’re interested in social psychology, you’ve most likely come across the work of Robert Cialdini. Cialdini has been called ‘the great guru of social influence’ and his book Influence: The Power of ...