Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I knew a fellow who fought the Iraq War from the comfort and safety of an easy chair, piloting a drone that destroyed dozens of buildings with people in them. He was never at risk for anything more serious than tendonitis, yet he emerged from thatContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Moral Injury”
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The Shrink’s Links: Car Talk
I was grieved to have learned that Tom Magliozzi, the co-host of Car Talk, recently died. I remember him for his marital advice, as much as I do for what he taught me about cars. Here’s a bit of his wisdom: I have my own law of marriage. It is more important to be happyContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Car Talk”
The Shrink’s Links: Chronicle Me
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you have something you just need to get off your chest. This is the place to do it and no one, they assure us, will ever know. Click here to go to the page
The Shrink’s Links: Quiet
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you would rather read a book than go to a party, read Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. You won’t feel so peculiar. You will learn to value yourself, even if our culture, by and large, doesn’tContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Quiet”
The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’ve seen Ken Burns’ newest documentary, The Roosevelts, you know about the part where FDR was stricken with polio. He woke up one morning, unable to move his legs. What followed was a terrifying and painful ordeal. It took doctors weeks to diagnose the problemContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help”
The Shrink’s Links: Your Self Image on Drugs
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders sacrifices himself for his art. He took a different drug every day for a few weeks and drew a self-portrait while under the influence. This is him on Nitrous Oxide. Click here to go to the page
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The Shrink’s Links: Mad in America
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Not everyone connected with the treatment of and recovery from mental illness goes along with the medical view that it is a chemical problem that has a chemical solution. Anyone interested in rethinking psychiatric care would want to read Mad in America. Click here to goContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mad in America”
The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you were amused by the post I wrote on Keith’s Crock of Shit, then wait till you get a load of what they do in Santa Fe. Every year, the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, New Mexico constructs a huge effigy of Zozobra (the SpanishContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom”
The Shrink’s Links: A Consequential, Niggling Detail
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Today I’m going to write about something that should be irrelevant and of no concern to you, but may affect you, nonetheless: the licensing of people who perform psychotherapy. Licenses exist so the consumer can know who to trust and who has the necessary training andContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: A Consequential, Niggling Detail”
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