Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in July, 2011.
It’s been a year now since we last put out a call to expand our ‘Ask the Psychologist’ faculty, and it’s time again: if you’re a clinical psychologist, you like to write, and you’d like to reach an audience of millions while while helping one reader at a time, we’d like to hear from you.
The only thing worse than a calamity is one that could have been averted. When I look back at some of the biggest disasters that affect us all today, I realize that we, the psychologically-minded, should have known better.
Hot on the heels of our expansion into mental health-related and health-related Facebook apps, the health team is now leading the way in delivering practically up-to-the-minute medication information for consumers and health professionals, straight from the US Food and Drug Administration.
The art and heart of storytelling: we have a need to tell and hear one another’s stories; to communicate our yearnings and fears, share our history and humor. Through storytelling we discover magic, ignite imagination and heal community.
Watch some children out for a walk and you’ll see a lot of meandering to and fro as they make fascinating discoveries on all sides. So why do adults seem to prefer to walk in straight lines instead? What do our kids know that we’ve forgotten?
Pointless, interminable meetings are often the bane of a worker’s day. How did it happen that highly trained and educated professionals choose to waste hours of their time each day, and what can be done to tame the meeting monster?
Life certainly isn’t as predictable as we’d sometimes like it to be. Sudden or unexpected changes of plan — even small ones — can have unforeseen knock-on effects.
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