October 2017 – Keith Wilson

The Uses of Uncertainty

Bringing you the best of mental health In 1900, for eleven weeks, Sigmund Freud met with a teenage girl stricken by hysterical mutism. We know this woman by the name Freud gave her, Dora. It wasn’t her real name. Precipitating the symptoms, she had accused an older family friend of making sexual advances to her.Continue reading “The Uses of Uncertainty”

GoodTherapy

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’re in the Rochester area and need a therapist, give me a call. If you live somewhere else, I’m sorry, but I probably don’t know anyone there to recommend. But I can recommend a website to go to find someone: GoodTherapy.org. There are a fewContinue reading “GoodTherapy”

How Caretaking Can Be A Problem

You may have actually said it, and it’s true. Taking care of a person with a Problem gives meaning and purpose to your life. Your life needs meaning and purpose. It makes your life worthwhile; it indicates your existence matters. That’s important. Sometimes, it’s the only thing that keeps you going. It’s something you canContinue reading “How Caretaking Can Be A Problem”

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Bringing you the best of mental health Back when I was studying psychology in college, I got a hold of a book by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases) that would change the way I think about thinking; but not fast enough.

Story Worth

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. There’s a lot about your loved one you never knew: your mother’s first crush, your father’s secret dream, the time your grandfather took up the saxophone. They never thought to tell you and you never thought to ask. For $79, when it’s not on sale, StoryContinue reading “Story Worth”