The Shrink’s Links – Page 6 – Keith Wilson

ROCovery Fitness

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. One of the hardest things about being in recovery is knowing what to do with yourself. Being addicted takes lots of time. There’s scoring the drugs, using the drugs, and recovering from the drugs. All that fills up your day. Then, stay in addiction long enoughContinue reading “ROCovery Fitness”

Andrea Gibson Sings Her Body Electric, Especially When Her Power’s Out

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Rogerian Person Centered Counseling

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. A therapist who doesn’t practice Rogerian Person Centered Counseling is like a musician who doesn’t practice scales. It is so basic and foundational that I wouldn’t know what to do without it. But, going to a therapist who only practices Rogerian Person Centered Counseling is likeContinue reading “Rogerian Person Centered Counseling”

Buzzed

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The best book I know about how drugs of abuse work and their effects is Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy, now in its fourth edition. No one is frying eggs and exaggerating or diminishing the effectsContinue reading “Buzzed”

Freedom

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’re interested in understanding human behavior, you could do a lot worse than reading novels and fictional short stories. The worse thing you could do, I suppose, is to read instruction manuals on how to assemble Ikea furniture, astrophysics, or the nature of chemical reactions,Continue reading “Freedom”

Unbroken Brain

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. People have often asked me to recommend a book about addiction. For thirty years, the only one I ever urged people to read has been the Big Book of AA, written eighty years ago, when we knew next to nothing about addiction. I’ll get into theContinue reading “Unbroken Brain”

The Fractured Republic

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. On this MLK Day, after the recent dissentious election, you may be interested in reading The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism by Yuval Levin. Levin has ideas about how we can come together and mend what’s broken.

You Don’t Have to Feel Bad to be a Good Person

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Almost everything I know about shame and guilt, I have learned from making mistakes. Lots and lots of mistakes. Everything else, I learned from my clients. But the way I’ve made any sense of it all has been from the work of June Tangney, professor ofContinue reading “You Don’t Have to Feel Bad to be a Good Person”

How to Influence the Clueless

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”

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”