Work Issues Library

• Therapists Spill: The Moment I Realized I Am Enough
  Many of us feel like we have to earn our ...
• Therapists Spill: What’s Your Motto on Life?
  Have you ever thought about your motto on life? Maybe it’s a saying that captures ...
• 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 ...
• The Top 5 Housemate Complaints
  It seemed like a good idea at the time. Four friends who have known each other since freshman ...
• What is Emotional Abandonment?
  Many people don’t realize that they’re feeling emotionally abandoned or that they did as a child. They may ...
• How to Spot Emotional Unavailability
  If you’ve ever been in a relationship with someone emotionally unavailable, you know the pain of not ...
• The Little Psychotherapy Book: Object Relations in Practice
  The Little Psychotherapy Book by Allan G. Frankland is a user-friendly, small (187 pages) manual designed to assis understanding psychodynamic psychotherapy from an object relations (O-R) perspective “in a dynamic and easy-to-follow way.” It presents very ...
• Joblessness and Symbolic Loss
  We live in a stressful society. We need to keep up with the hustle and bustle of everyday, as ...
• 5 Tips for Handling Workplace Drama
  Workplace drama makes for a very tense environment. From rumor mills to office cliques, many of us have ...
• Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Jeffrey Sumber
  Every month we interview a different clinician about everything from practicing therapy to leading a meaningful ...
• You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
  Anyone who has seen TLC’s popular TV show “What Not to Wear” will recognize the psychological issues discussed in Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner’s recently published You Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You.  ...
• 5 Ways to Solve All Your Problems
  Got a problem? Who doesn’t? It might help to know there are five ways, ...
• 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 ...
• Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life
  A wonderfully executed book which sets out with the lofty objective of organizing and taming our society’s fast-paced lifestyle, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life is a true prize in its class of literature.  It’s ...
• 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 ...
• Overcoming the Fear of Making Mistakes
  “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” This is a famous ...
• 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 ...
• How to Put Parenting First and Tame the To-Do List
  The mom I was talking with the other ...
• 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 ...
• What Death Can Teach Us about Life
  I attended a funeral the other week for the husband of one of my colleagues. He was a relatively ...
• 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 ...
• Community, Libraries and Mental Health
  Unlike his colleague Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler -- another early 20th century psychologist -- wasn’t interested in analyzing ...
• Smart Thinking: 3 Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done
  Today we have access to more information than ever before -- at our fingertips, quickly, and in great volume. Going along with that, we also have a wealth of books and websites that tell us ...
• 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 ...
• 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. ...