Keith R Wilson

Gender and Jewelry

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you ever wondered why you wear the jewelry you wear, you may enjoy Gender and Jewelry: A Feminist Analysis by Rebecca Ross Russell. For an academic paper, conceived, it appears, while working on a combined Bachelor’s of Fine Arts and Women’s Studies, it is eminentlyContinue reading “Gender and Jewelry”

Kindness

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. This week’s link of the week is the poem, Kindness, by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Announcement: Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield

I’m pleased to announce that I now am an in-network provider for Excellus Blue Cross/Blue Shield. In other words, I “take” their insurance. Most of the time. It’s complicated. If you need to know just how complicated it is, click here to read the article I wrote on what it means to “take” an insurance.

Upheavals of Thought

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The emotions could use some better PR. They have been blamed for everything from each personal crisis to the insanity that is called this year’s election. We shrinks have mobilized the troops of rationality and have sharpened the swords of Stoicism, recast as Cognitive BehavioralContinue reading “Upheavals of Thought”

Emotions: Do You Have a Choice?

Anger, fear, sadness, hopelessness, joy, hope, gratitude, back to anger, fear, and sadness, in no particular order and sometimes all together, at once. When your relationship is in trouble, you’re on an emotional roller coaster. Let’s take a step away and look at what emotions are and what, if anything, we can do about them.

Inside Out Inside Out

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you thought the Pixar movie, Inside Out, was pretty cool, you should also know that its depiction of the inner life of the mind closely follows most current psychological thinking about the way things work. Most current thinking, that is.

Check your Dashboard

I’d like to interrupt whatever else you might be doing, to remind you to check your dashboard; you’ll find there almost all the information you need to keep things running smoothly. No, I don’t mean the dashboard in your car, although you should be checking that regularly, as well; I mean your body’s dashboard. YouContinue reading “Check your Dashboard”

The Shrink’s Links:The Citizen Therapist Manifesto

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The other day, someone invited me to sign the Citizen Therapist Manifesto. This is a petition, already signed by thousands of therapists, expressing their alarm at the candidacy of Donald Trump, which they see as a threat to the well-being of their clients. Do you wantContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links:The Citizen Therapist Manifesto”

The Shrink’s Links: The Gervais Principle

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The Gervais Principle, named after Ricky Gervais, the creator of The Office, and coined by Venkatesh Rao, of the not as popular blog, Ribbonfarm, states that at the top of any organization are sociopaths, at the bottom are losers, and in the middle are the clueless.Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Gervais Principle”

What Can’t Be Hurt

If you were hurt by someone you love, it’s important to get real about the injury and account for all the damages inflicted: the common money the compulsive gambler spent, the trust the adulterer squandered, the confidence the abusive parent wrecked. It’s equally important to note the damages that were not done, the parts ofContinue reading “What Can’t Be Hurt”