Bringing you the best of mental health every week. In this year’s election, you may have noticed people clinging to unreasonable political beliefs. When they post their poorly considered opinions on Facebook, you try to argue against them, but you can’t convince them of anything. Why is that? Why can’t they change? How can youContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Principle of Tenacity”
Monthly Archives: August 2016
The Road to Reconciliation: Calibrate your Compass
Take a perfectly functional compass and put it in a room with an electromagnet and it will forget which way is north. It’ll point to the magnet because the magnet is exerting a force that it cannot ignore, far more powerful than that exercised by the distant, measly north pole. When a problem enters aContinue reading “The Road to Reconciliation: Calibrate your Compass”
The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: The Come Up for Men
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. At an under-advertised book fair, us authors did little more than sell or give books to one another. But I got a chance to meet Tracy Williams and hear his concerns about how, with the decline of marriage and increase in mass incarceration, few men remainContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: The Come Up for Men”
The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Internal Family Systems Therapy
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. You are divided. You must have noticed this when you’re trying to decide whether to have that chocolate cake, or stick to your diet; when you rise, groaning from your bed, despite how comfortable that pillow looks; when you want to tell your boss to shoveContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Internal Family Systems Therapy”
Constructive Conflict Audio-book Raffle
Constructive Conflict is now in audio, narrated by Pete Ferrand. I have 25 free copies to give away and will raffle them off next Monday, August 25, 2016. Fill out the form below if you are interested. If you can’t wait and want your copy right now, click here to go to Amazon.com. It’s alsoContinue reading “Constructive Conflict Audio-book Raffle”
The Shrink’s Links: Racial, Class and Discrimination among Psychotherapists
Bring you the best of mental health every week. If you have thought it was hard to find a therapist, you’re right. A study appearing in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that, among middle-class people who contacted a therapist to schedule an appointment, only 28 percent of whitesContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Racial, Class and Discrimination among Psychotherapists”