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Holiday rules for a happier marriage…
Couples Therapy Inc. recently posted not 1, not 2, but 3 blog posts written by me years ago.
They are… right now…. presenting my content on their website as written by their “Former Staff Writer.”
They did this to needle a 70 year-old man during the holidays….
The 2 worst ways to cope with stress for C-class executives…
A number of my clients are C-level execs, home for the holidays.
The upheavals in commercial real estate and banking are making it hard to leave stress behind….
Here are the worst 2 ways to manage stress you should avoid…
How long does it take recover your self-esteem from a break-up?
A recent German study shows that relationship that had lasted a year or more before the ultimate breakup are particularly damaging to self-esteem.
Subsequently starting a new relationship increased self-esteem, as long as the new relationship lasts.
However, shorter relationships — those lasting less than a year — tended to reduce people’s self-esteem.
How not to screw up a holiday office party…
Breaking research from Germany suggests that the best approach to a well-done office party is to… minimize dissatisfaction?
Alexithymia and childhood trauma
A huge study of studies has correlated childhood maltreatment with alexithymia.
Alexithymia, which literally translates as ‘no words for emotions’, is a difficulty some humans have identifying and describing their emotions.
But it’s also a often a compellingly obvious indication of neurodiversity…
Can humans be happy alone?
Research from Germany suggests that we may have more to learn about solitude, social supports, and mental health…
The power of intellectual confidence…
What is the notion of humility across neurotypes?
A little study from 8 years ago frustrates the researchers because they did not satisfy their neurotypical expectations…
What is the least stressful phase of life?
Research reveals that humans report feeling stress as move through time, becoming older and more chill in the process.
Aging humans have fewer stressful experiences, and they deal with whatever stress they do experience much better than when they were younger.
On the other hand, Middle age humans are way more stressed nowadays than they were 20 years ago.
Why “down time” doesn’t work for you…
A new study suggests that humans who leave work and return home stressed are often unable to unwind by watching TV, or playing video games to in an effort to chill out.
It seems for stressed-out humans, down time can be a downer.
5 Early warning signs of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder quite a dangerous mental disorder, and Marriage and Family Therapists should expect to encounter families suffering from BPD from time to time.
They may show up with, or without a formal diagnosis.
Here are the essential diagnostic features of early-onset bipolar disorder that you need to know about…
Men, and the bearing of bad news…
The human inclination to share intimate and personal information about ourselves is a critical pathway toward achieving authentic intimacy with other humans.
New research confirms something we already sort of suspected…men are disinclined to share bad news compared to women, a study finds.
Even though they’d like to learn how…
The Holy Grail of public mental health? …AI?
Exciting times, indeed.
We might be facing a paradox of sorts.
As AI rolls out in clinic settings, the power of AI will reshape the hierarchy of expertise, and further subordinate the diagnostic function of psychiatry.