It's Not Their Fault
Written by Jamie Kyne Ph.D.
Here are some reflections on the kind of interesting conversations that psychotherapy makes possible.
A few weeks ago, an adult patient of mine in his forties shared with me an email he’d received from his older sister. Their mother had...
Mirror, Mirror on the Couch
Written by: Angela Hart LPC, MHSP
Recently I found myself feeling impatient with a client. I’ll call her Margo. She had broken up with a married man a few months prior. The man, who at one time had plans to leave his wife to pursue this romance with my...
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.
By LORI GOTTLIEB
IF THERE’S ONE thing I learned in graduate school, it’s that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (“...
People sometimes wonder whether I “analyze” everyone I meet. This is usually asked with some fear that as a psychiatrist I can “see right through them” and instantly know things about their innermost thoughts they’d prefer to keep hidden. Although...
Does Depression Help Us Think Better?
Written by Jonah Lehrer
Why do people get depressed? At first glance, the answer seems obvious: the mind, like the flesh, is prone to malfunction. Once that malfunction happens — perhaps it’s an errant gene triggering a shortage of some happy...
- 1 of 4
- ››
