Psychology Articles

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• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Psychologist Deborah Serani
  In this brand-new feature, we interview a different therapist each month about their work. Below, you'll learn ...
• The Truth About Animal-Assisted Therapy
  You know the impact your pet has on your life. But can the same sense of healing, security and unconditional love that ...
• The Media and Mental Illness: The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous
  When portraying mental illness and psychotherapy, the media tends to get it wrong -- ...
• Competing Family Loyalties in the Holiday Season
  The holidays are ripe for unearthing family dramas, often featuring a popular story line about competing loyalties. Though there are ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Julie Hanks
  Want to get a glimpse into a therapist’s world? Learn what therapy is really like? And get some wise advice ...
• Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies
  Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies by Alberto M. Bursztyn is the latest edition to the “Making Sense of Psychology” series. This series concerns itself with the psychological problems and challenges in the lives of today’s ...
• House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated
  When I was a psychology major, part of our lab work involved observing people through a one-way mirror.  In House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated, edited by Drs. Ted Cascio and Leonard Martin, the one-way ...
• Transform Your Life Now
  If you Google the phrase "transform your life," you get results showing you how to do just that in 5 easy ways, in less than 30 minutes, with 10 technologies, by 10 truths, or in ...
• Keeping Your Child in Mind
  A 3-year-old is happily playing on the floor near his mommy’s feet as she works on her laptop.  Unknowingly, she knocks a ballpoint pen onto the floor.  The little boy picks up the ballpoint pen, ...
• 20 Ideas from Creativity Connoisseurs To Inspire Your Imagination
  Creativity is not a gift bestowed to a select few before birth. Everyone is creative. It’s just ...
• How To Read People Like an FBI Profiler
  What do you make of a neighbor who’s married, has kids, dresses in a suit daily, rarely misses ...
• When Our Instincts Betray Us: How To Make Better Decisions
  We often listen to our bodies and our emotions when making very serious decisions. We might ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Advice I’ve Received On Conducting Therapy
  There are certain words of wisdom that stay with you the rest of your life -- especially ...
• 12 More Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
  When you’re an entrepreneur, who inevitably wears many hats, managing your time can get tricky—especially when it’s ...
• You Should Be So Lucky: Dealing with Tragedy
  Katy was diagnosed with a meningioma, a rare operable brain tumor occurring in about 7 in 100,000 people. The ...
• How Couples Can Help Each Other De-stress and Improve Their Relationship
  “Stress impacts our love relationships more than we are aware of or acknowledge,” according to Judy ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• Emotionally Focused Therapy: Bolstering Couples’ Emotional Bonds
  Western culture views independence as a virtue. We’ve been taught that a truly strong person doesn’t need anybody to survive ...
• What To Do About Attention-Seeking Kids
  The preschooler I observed in the grocery store yesterday was doing everything she could to get her mom’s attention. She whined. ...
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  A shaky self-confidence or relentless self-doubt stops many people from pursuing their passions. A fear of failure gnaws at them, leaving them at a standstill and unsatisfied with their lives. If you know what I’m ...
• Into Your Dreams
  Into Your Dreams: Deciphering Your Unique Dream Symbology to Transform Your Waking Life, by Janece O. Hudson, Ed.D. is a comprehensive guide to unraveling the mystery of those nocturnal dialogues we call dreams. Unlike most dream ...
• 5 Ideas for Boosting Your Energy When Depression Strikes
  Depression is as much a somatic (physical) disorder as it is a psychological one. Energy loss is a ...
• Therapists Spill: Why I Love Being a Clinician
  Being a therapist is hard work. It requires extra schooling, usually involves long hours and a plethora of paperwork ...
• Social Anxiety Overview
  People with social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, suffer from an intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations -- specifically the ...
• A Toolkit for School Success: 15 Study Tips for Students with ADHD
  Because of the nature of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), students with the disorder ...