Ambiguity and The Blogosphere
Many topics addressed on the blogosphere create enormous anxiety when answers to a question are not known. When articles do not provide definitive answers, there tend to be a lot more negative and even...
View ArticleAging and Cinema Meet—On Good Terms
Women are finally being looked at more accurately in cinema, though with some constraints... read more
View ArticleSelf-care and the Devil You Know
I recently had the chance to think about the juxtaposition between what most of us know we should do to take care of our health and what many of us actually do related to forging a healthy...
View ArticleIn Shock
The experiment in France sheds light on issues of social pressure, especially in the age of reality television. People want to get famous, no matter what the cost. In this way, deference to authority...
View ArticleHow “Doing it All” Is Not Enough
In trying to do it all, especially during this tough economic time, we women may be neglecting ourselves. Though often our instinct is to think about others, we need to start putting ourselves...
View ArticleNot Your Parent's Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic Therapy Today
Over the years, many students have told me they can credit one person for their interest in psychodynamic therapy and psychoanalysis. That person is Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.read more
View ArticleA New Mid-Life Crisis
Adjustment problems in midlife are no laughing matter. Middle-aged adults have the highest suicide rates in the country for the second year in a row.read more
View ArticleReality Check: Sherrod and the Internet
The impulse to believe brief bits of information is a form of cognitive economizing--we try to take things in quickly, but don't stop to seek all of the information. read more
View ArticleLives in Therapy
Daphne Merkin's penetrating, moving, and poignant article in today's New York Times Magazine, which describes the hopes and disappointments of nearly forty years in various forms of analytic treatment,...
View ArticleThe Human Costs of Modern Medicine
Why are end of life issues so hard to talk about? Physicians avoid what desperately needs to be discussed when working with patients with terminal diagnoses. But psychologists can also fail to discuss...
View ArticleEmpiricism and Psychoanalytic Therapy
The news about empirical research supporting psychodynamic therapy can be met like the only water available in the midst of a severe drought. Indeed, psychodynamic psychotherapy has recently been...
View ArticleBeyond the AIDS Epidemic
Though many therapists and people in the general public consider the AIDS crisis to be over, the physical and psychological health of many people in the LGBT population is an important and often...
View ArticleIn Search of Iodide?
The intensity of fears about radiation poisoning on the West Coast and ways that people are acting on these fears reflect a kind of mass hysteria.read more
View ArticleDoctors Behaving Badly
Clinicians and bloggers might share some similar problems. We want attention and some of us will do anything to get it, including irresponsible and inappropriate blog posts.read more
View ArticleHow We Misinterpret Grief
Ideas about what is normal about grieving should not be imposed; as outsiders we never really know the true story of a close relationship.read more
View ArticleHow Patients Lose When Psychologists Are Not Involved in Medical Care
Health care costs are exploding and one silent factor in containing costs is rarely mentioned: the underutilization of psychological services.read more
View ArticleSeniors on Television: A Milestone or Glass Ceiling?
It would be nice if we could see more elderly women represented in news media. read more
View ArticleHow Dangerous Is "A Dangerous Method"?
Unlike relatively recent portrayals of longed-for sex with analysts, "A Dangerous Method" reminds us that boundary violations are, in fact, dangerous.read more
View ArticleWhen Someone You Love Has A Chronic Illness
The topic of illness makes most of us feel anxious and helpless. Because of the fear and anxiety associated with the topic of illness, many people avoid conversations about the all-too-present reality...
View ArticleConundrums: Approaches to Psychoanalysis
Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis offers a thoughtful discussion of the benefits and limitations of contemporary psychoanalysis, as well as how politics in the field may keep us...
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