Articles on Essays
Hearts and Minds: How We Think About Moral Dilemmas
Consider the following question: You are on a bridge above a runaway train quickly approaching a fork in the tracks. On the tracks extending to the left is a...
Book Review: How Does That Make You Feel?
How Does That Make You Feel? True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch is the ultimate tell-all book for our times. The people sharing secrets include psychotherapy...
Book Review: It’s Not Your Journey
A memoir, by nature, is an essay on a learned subject or an account written from personal knowledge. Most memoirs are picked up and read to understand a person,...
Book Review: Bad Feminist: Essays
The title of Roxane Gay’s New York Times bestseller is Bad Feminist. But you don’t have to be any kind of feminist, or even have any interest in feminism,...
Book Review: How Does That Make You Feel?
“We’re all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven’t been caught yet.” – Max Walker The therapeutic relationship is an unusual one....
Book Review: Pound for Pound
In Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman’s Recovery and the Shelter Dogs who Loved Her Back to Life, Kopp writes of her struggle with bulimia. Weaving together...
Book Review: Show Me Your Scars
What comes to mind when you think of the term mental illness? Do you think of individuals who are thriving, successful, independent, and happy? Or do you picture individuals...
Book Review: Why We Write About Ourselves
Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature offers everything a reader might wish for from twenty diverse...
The Subway Run-In
Sometimes when you go through a rough phase in your life, something happens to show you that the phase has ended and you’ve moved on. I’ve just had this...
Three Men, One Month: The Match.com Journey Continues
I have now been on roughly a month’s worth of dates. None of them was completely awful, but some were definitely better than others. Date One: The Liquid...
Depression and the Fishbowl
I like fish. Fish live in a world all their own, but one that can teach us something about our human problems, including depression (have you ever seen a...
Our Superheroes, Ourselves
What does Lex Luthor have to do with gossip? According to two of the psychologists in Our Superheroes, Ourselves, our penchant to dish about people and our delight in...
12 Tips to Keep Joy in the Holidays
The Christmas season is upon us once again, and once again we find ourselves balancing between our work or studies, hanging out friends, scheduling time with family, and maybe...
An Unlikely Reminder of Personal Growth
I think it really sucks you jumped to such a conclusion before taking anything I would have to say into consideration and also feeling the need to tell me...
Depression and Teenage Identity Building
One day of high school, I distinctly remember realizing that I had more friends who were taking some form of psychiatric medication than friends who were not. The vast...
