Category Archives: The Shrink’s Links

The Shrink’s Links: Bright Ideas for Treating the Winter Blues

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Christmas time is a busy time of the year for malls, elves, and postal workers, but, despite the myth, it is not a busy time for us shrinks. Actually, it’s April. Nonetheless, there is something about this time of year that makes it hard, especially inContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Bright Ideas for Treating the Winter Blues”

The Shrink’s Links: The Advent Conspiracy

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. There are only twenty-four more shopping days until Christmas. What’s the matter? Not feeling very merry? Maybe it’s time to change the way you celebrate Christmas. Click here to join a conspiracy to make Christmas simpler and more meaningful.

The Shrink’s Links: 7 Cups of Tea

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’re a good listener or need a good listener, then 7 Cups of Tea might be just your cup of tea. 7 Cups of Tea is an on-demand service that connects you anonymously & securely for a one-on-one chat. Whether you want to discuss theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: 7 Cups of Tea”

The Shrink’s Links: Journal Therapy

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Has there ever been a shrink that does not suggest that her clients keep a journal? None that I ever knew of. Journaling can help you clarify your thoughts and feelings, know yourself better, release the intensity of feelings, and unlock creative capabilities. If you haveContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Journal Therapy”

The Shrink’s Links: The Nap Wheel

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’d like to take a nap, but are not sure when, you’re probably a mother of young children or a wage slave who doesn’t have a place to hide from your boss. If you have all the time in the world and can take aContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Nap Wheel”

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: Hypno Hero

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Your mind is like a garden. If you’re going to pull weeds, you’d best replace those weeds with desirable plants or the weeds will just grow back. The Hypno Hero app may help. Just download it for free and you can create your own, personalized, hypnosisContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Hypno Hero”

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””