Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I got Clueless 101: A Life Manual for for Millennials to review and was thinking of re-gifting it to a millennial as a graduation present. It’s replete with visual aides and jam packed with helpful practical advice on everything from leasing an apartment to charting aContinue reading “How to Influence the Clueless”
Category Archives: Book Review
Unclean
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. It may be too much for me to hope that you enjoyed my recent post in The Road to Reconciliation on disgust. It’s possible to write about boredom without being boring, it’s easy to write about anger without being angry, but it may be impossible toContinue reading “Unclean”
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”
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”
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”
The Shrink’s Links: Identity Design
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I hope you have met, at least once in your life, someone who can break it down and tell you how it is; someone who brings out the best in you, with an unerring moral compass, and can give you a good swift kick in theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Identity Design”
The Shrink’s Links: Sabbatical of the Mind
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Six years from retirement, working for a three-letter government agency, David L. Winters suddenly quit his job so he could devote some time to getting a handle on his anxiety, his over-eating, and to deepen his faith. Winters relied on medication to manage nearly disabling panicContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Sabbatical of the Mind”
The Shrink’s Links: The Principle of Tenacity
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”
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”
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