Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you read my last post, entitled Avoid Playing the Victim, you would have come across this example. I stole it. The fourth sign [of playing the victim] is hard to explain. Imagine going to a restaurant and getting a waiter who is so attentive, soContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Being and Nothingness”
Category Archives: Book Review
The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Boredom
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. People go crazy because they’re bored. Workers hate their jobs because they are bored. Partners cheat on their spouses because they are bored. The leading reason why addicts tell me they relapse is they are bored. Also, writers write, painters paint, players play, and inventors inventContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Boredom”
The Shrink’s Links: Review of Room
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. No matter how well you think you understand, you don’t understand well enough. If you don’t understand what I mean, go see the movie, Room, while it’s still in theaters. Or read the book. Or, like I did, do both. The first part is set inContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Review of Room”
The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Looking for my Father in Emerson’s Essays
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I recently opened, for the first time, a volume of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson from the collection of old books in my library that I have never read. I was surprised to find that my father, whom I must’ve gotten the book from, noted onContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Book Review: Looking for my Father in Emerson’s Essays”
The Shrink’s Links: The New Existentialists
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you were intrigued by my recent post about Martin Buber and the application of existentialism to psychology, then you might be interested in The New Existentialists blog. They seem to have stopped posting new articles, but the old ones are still there to read. ClickContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The New Existentialists”
The Shrink’s Links: Review of “Life Against Death”
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I recently finished reading Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown. Since it’s a book that only the most psychoanalytically-minded shrink will enjoy, I’ll summarize it for you, so you don’t have to read it. It goes like this. Babies experienceContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Review of “Life Against Death””
The Shrink’s Links: The Smokefree Way
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Sometimes I get new books to review. I just finished The Smokefree Way by Tamir Turgal. As an addiction counselor, I’ve read many books and heard many people talk about addiction and the process of setting oneself free. I’ve never read anything as clear and directContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Smokefree Way”
The Shrink’s Links: After Virtue
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’re interested in living a good life, you first need to know what the good life is. To figure this out, try studying philosophy. There’s no better person to do this with than Alasdair MacIntyre, who wrote After Virtue. When you do philosophy, you can’tContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: After Virtue”
The Shrink’s Links: The Yellow Wallpaper
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. This hundred-and-some-odd-year-old short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is often regarded as a classic of feminist literature, but it’s much more than that. It’s a terrifying horror story that challenges the subjugation mental patients still experience from their doctors. A woman suffering from post-partum depression isContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Yellow Wallpaper”
The Shrink’s Links: Mating in Captivity
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Mating in Captivity A few weeks ago, I brought you her Ted Talk, which I had first discovered. I was so taken by the hypothesis she presented that I went out and bought her book, Mating in Captivity. I was not disappointed. Why does sexual desireContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mating in Captivity”
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