Self-Esteem Articles

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• Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past
  Boris Cyrulnik is a renowned neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, director of teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France. At the age of 5, he lost both of ...
• I Love You. Now Change.
  She married him because he was hardworking. She was considering divorce because he turned out to be a workaholic who was barely ...
• Mistaken for ADHD
  After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
• Women Who Love Psychopaths
  This book has many reasons to recommend it. Two are most powerful. First, its postulation through neuroscientific indications that the psychopath's brain is genetically different from his fellows and so he cannot change is paramount ...
• Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight
  By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist.  At age 40, he was a mature ...
• Pocket Truths For Success: 365 Daily Principles to Become the Most Successful Person You Know
  “Achieving and sustaining success” and helping others to do so is the premise for Pocket Truths For Success, by B.A. Newman and Dr. Justin B. Short. Other inspirational books have used the day-at-a-time focus and ...
• Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch
  It is hard to summarize and review Tiger Mother: Son of a Bitch without an undercurrent of disgust, even when trying to temper it with pity.  Derrick Lin’s self-published work, written in “a matter of ...
• Attributional Style and Depression: How Your Explanations Influence Your Mood
  Several weeks ago I took my four-year-old son camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...
• 8 Surprising Myths About Relationships
  There are hundreds of myths about relationships, according to Terri Orbuch, Ph.D, a Michigan clinical psychologist and author of ...
• Treating PTSD with Surf Therapy
  For the last handful of years, Britain and the United States have done quiet experiments with a new form of therapy for veterans ...
• Recovering from Mental Illness? Be Your Own Best Friend
  The bad/sad news: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four adults -- ...
• The Way of the Comedian
  This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A. According to a tale in the ...
• What Makes Us Happy?
  If I were to ask you what makes you happy, you would probably have no problem providing me with at least a ...
• 6 Benefits of Roughhousing for Kids
  I've attended one play dates too many when parents flinch at the first sign of physical engagement between two ...
• Activities That Pay When There Are No Paying Jobs
  It’s June. Your 15- or 16- or 17-year-old has halfheartedly, or even wholeheartedly, looked for a summer job. The competition is fierce. In a weak economy, adults are taking jobs that once were the ...
• How and Why Humor Differs Between the Sexes
  This article has been excerpted from the book Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve, by Nichole Force, M.A. ...
• New Pilot Program Tries to Help the Mentally Ill Quit Smoking
  I was shocked when I read this statistic in Melinda’s Beck top-notch column, “Health Journal,” in the Wall Street Journal: Nearly half of all the ...
• A Dog Named Slugger: How Service Dogs Improve the Lives of Many
  Consider these surprising studies concerning the benefit of trained service dogs to help all kinds of ...
• Competition Among Women: Myth and Reality
  Women seem to have a reputation for being “catty” and competitive with other women, unlike how men behave with other ...
• 10 Way to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries
  Boundaries are essential to healthy relationships and, really, a healthy life. Setting and sustaining boundaries is a skill. ...
• Is Trying To Change an Addictive Habit Worth It?
  Drugs. Alcohol. Food. Exercise. Shopping. Gambling. Attempts to change or fix other people. Trying to make more ...
• Keeping Your Child Free from Addiction
  The single most pressing concern for the parents I see in my psychotherapy practice, whether their child is 4 ...
• Turning Acquaintances Into Friends
  Lonely? Go on an Internet search for how to meet new people and you’ll find dozens of sites. You know the ...
• Lack of Safety Net for LGBT Couples Causes Stress
  The "straight safety net" involves both hetero-normative assumptions and heterosexual privilege (defined below). These create often-unacknowledged ...
• Crisis of Confidence in a Teen: It’s a Family Matter
  The characters in the following vignette are fictitious. They were derived from a composite of people ...