Category Archives: The Shrink’s Links

The Shrink’s Links: Self Directed Search

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Even if you’re, like, forty-three years old and don’t know what you want to be when you grow up, you can discover your bliss with the Holland Self Directed Search. Being unsure of one’s vocation actually happens far more often than you think. The average personContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Self Directed Search”

The Shrink’s Links: NYS Department of Health, Bureau of Managed Care Division

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Having no health insurance can kill you, but having insurance can frustrate you half to death. Many of the calls I get from prospective clients are people with insurance, but, for whatever reason, their insurance will not cover them to see me. Every other therapist IContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: NYS Department of Health, Bureau of Managed Care Division”

The Shrink’s Links: Movie Review of Ways of Seeing

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Most movie reviewers try to be the first to give you their take on up and coming movies. Not here at the Shrinks Links. Here we include those old classics that you might not have seen before, but are worth seeing now. One of these isContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Movie Review of Ways of Seeing”

The Shrink’s Links: Terry

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. You may think you know George McGovern. Maybe not, maybe you’re too young to know the Democratic presidential nominee who challenged Nixon in 1972 and lost abysmally. Politically, he was my generation’s Bernie Sanders. Long after his presidential bid, he wrote a book, Terry: My Daughter’sContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Terry”

The Shrink’s Links: Surviving Infidelity

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. There are few experiences as painful and as confusing as learning your partner has been unfaithful. Was it him, her, or you? Do you stay together or split? What do you tell your children? Can anyone understand? survivinginfedelity.com conducts forums staffed by experienced moderators. There’s aContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Surviving Infidelity”

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: Advance Psychiatric Directives

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. You know what an advance directive is, right? Advance Directives are the legal documents that enable you to state your preferences regarding medical care beforehand and empower someone to make decisions on your behalf when you are unable to do so yourself. They’ll come in handyContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Advance Psychiatric Directives”

The Shrink’s Links: CrowdMed

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Do you have frustratingly complex medical symptoms that have you and your doctors baffled? Pay $199, submit your medical history anonymously to CrowdMed, and dozens, or even hundreds, of “medical detectives” will chime in. You get a list of suggestions, based on these detective’s rankings, toContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: CrowdMed”

The Shrink’s Links: The New Year’s Clean Sweep

Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship advice on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: The Clean Sweep Program I’ve posted it before, but this is a link that’s worth repeating in this season of setting goals and making resolutions. The Clean Sweep Program is a checklist of 100 items which,Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The New Year’s Clean Sweep”