Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life & Teachings For those familiar with the work of famed thinker Carl Jung, author Gary Lachman has written a challenging but worthwhile biography. In Jung the Mystic: The Exoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life and Teachings, Lachman explores ...
Animal Wise: The Thoughts & Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures One of my best friends, Valor, a black Labrador, was a genius. My husband set up a video recorder and we saw that Valor waited exactly 60 seconds after the garage door closed before stealing ...
Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century Community mental health can cover children and senior citizens, hetero and gay people, soldiers, legal offenders, homemakers, working people, non-working people, people of every race and ethnicity, and people with relatively minor psychological problems all ...
Book Review: Smart Thinking Most of us probably assume we do a pretty good job of thinking as we go about our work or personal lives. Art Markman’s book, Smart Thinking, shows us how wrong many of us are -- ...
The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment It is amazing how quickly a to-do list can pile up.
Have you seen that bit of dastardly magic happen in your life? You start the week with three priority-related tasks; by Monday night, you ...
Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions There is an old joke that asks, “How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?”
Answer: “Only one, but it has to want to change.”
Of course, changing ourselves is usually a lot harder ...
The Oxford Handbook of Prevention in Counseling Psychology As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Unfortunately, when we practice prevention there’s rarely any kind of instant “return on investment” to reinforce our behavior. The results ...
The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology What’s the difference between personality psychology and social psychology? In essence, personality psychology focuses on the person, while social psychology focuses on the situation—how people act in different situations, or how situations affect individuals. In ...
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook Two decades ago, in January 1993, Susan Lukas released Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook, aimed at guiding mental health practitioners toward better psychological assessments and intake interviews.
Though the author ...
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries “I’m a midwife to the dying – for those who want to hasten their death,” says George Exoo, a Unitarian preacher who claims to have assisted 102 people in killing themselves. He often carries a ...
The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation “How much of our identity or self is truly representative of our own wants and goals in life, and how much does it reflect the wants and priorities of someone else?” This is the question ...
The Secret Life of Pronouns Suicidal poets use “I” more. Presidential candidates who say “we” come across as arrogant and aloof toward their audience. In the week ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Red Flags of Love Fraud: 10 Signs You’re Dating a Sociopath Donna Andersen started LoveFraud.com after her former husband drained her of $227,000, cheated on her, fathered a child outside their marriage, and remarried 10 days after their divorce was finalized. The website, which was created ...
Handbook of Counseling Military Couples Handbook of Counseling Military Couples is a collection of essays by psychologists and therapists, edited by Bret A. Moore, Psy.D. It is intended to be read by clinicians working with military couples. The first half ...