I never thought of myself as someone who works best under the pressure of a deadline. I suppose with just a tad of reflection I could have figured it out.
In the sixth grade I recall staying up all n...
There are some things in this world that I think are pretty fouled up, and, quite frankly, I don’t understand them.
They are social issues, and I don’t like how they grind people down.
It’s too easy...
The business of apology and forgiveness has been explored by psychologists and has been found to be a needed dynamic in successful relationships.
What makes for an adequate apology? I frequently encou...
Change is not necessarily growth. Change can be simple blunting of symptoms so that you know you are depressed but you just don’t care that much (which sounds redundant, doesn’t it?). You might believ...
Consider the gang problem in Bermuda or the financial situation in which Bermuda’s fiscal near future has been downgraded. Are these more like figments of our imagination or in some way do they actual...
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, now in its fourth edition (with a text revision) will eventually be replaced by its fifth edition. That project is nearing completion, and it...
Not everything can be tweaked. I am not referring here to the Pollyanna principle in which people identify with every positive statement made about them (and ignore everything else).
An extension of t...
I was reading recently that roughly half of the psychotherapists practicing today identify themselves as being integrative. That means they do work that transcends in some way an adherence to any sing...
In 1970 George Harrison released “All Things Must Pass,” which was a three-record set, but also the title of one of the songs in that collection. He had been languishing under the domination of Lennon...
I became a Christian in Sacramento, California. For those who do not know, that is where the current television drama ‘The Mentalist’ is supposed to take place, and to be sure every once in awhile the...
