The Shrink’s Links – Page 7 – Keith Wilson

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”

Kindness

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. This week’s link of the week is the poem, Kindness, by Naomi Shihab Nye.

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”

Inside Out Inside Out

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you thought the Pixar movie, Inside Out, was pretty cool, you should also know that its depiction of the inner life of the mind closely follows most current psychological thinking about the way things work. Most current thinking, that is.

The Shrink’s Links:The Citizen Therapist Manifesto

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The other day, someone invited me to sign the Citizen Therapist Manifesto. This is a petition, already signed by thousands of therapists, expressing their alarm at the candidacy of Donald Trump, which they see as a threat to the well-being of their clients. Do you wantContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links:The Citizen Therapist Manifesto”

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”

Day One

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Day One is a simple way to journal. It’s easy to quickly enter your thoughts and memories and have them synced and backed up in the cloud. Day One is well designed and extremely focused to encourage you to write more. Click here to go toContinue reading “Day One”

The Shrink’s Links: Alternate Nostril Breathing

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Before you try drugs for anxiety, try alternate nostril breathing. Click here to go to the YouTube site.

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”