Cognitive Vigilance, Stress, and Addiction
How does catching our own errors and correcting them protect us from stress? Can doing so also protect us from addiction?
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life Articles in 2008, Page 10
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in 2008.
On Anger and Letting off Steam
Is anger a finite substance that can be let out or kept in, which “goes off” if it is kept in, and feels good and constructive to let out? Is any kind of emotional energy like that?
New Service at MyTherapist: Real Therapy, Online
Our new sister site, MyTherapist.com, launches today!
Consensual Living — and the Life Changing Effect of Parenthood
Consensual Living is a philosophy, or collection of principles, by which families get along together without coercion, addressing everybody’s needs on an equal basis. The basic principles as I understand them are equality, trust and self determination.
Women and “Self-Esteem” — Are You the Protagonist?
Sometimes I am struck in my work as a therapist by how many strong, talented, intelligent, creative, loving women have a tendency to live as if their lives didn’t matter.
What is the Difference Between a Psychiatrist and God?
The answer? At least God knows he is not a psychiatrist. Dinesh Bhugra, the new President of the Royal College of Psychiatry, UK, has recently stated that he would not himself use an acute psychiatric ward, nor allow any of his family to be placed there.
The Second Wave of Grief
Somehow I managed to ride through the shock, the agony, the chaos and emptiness and finally a kind of saying goodbye, and a kind of acceptance, and she fell into a different place in my life. But now, a few months on — after all that work I did — she’s still dead!