Bringing you the best of mental health every week. It’s not a question of whether or not you use psychological defenses. Everybody does. It’s really a question of what they are. Some, you see, are better than others. The first defenses we develop are the primitive ones, cheap and dirty, the barrel bombs of psychologicalContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Defensive Functioning Scale”
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Things in My Office: The Stone, a Symbol of Perfection
It’s time again to introduce you to another item in my office. It’s a stone. I got this stone while hiking in Colorado. It was a perfect day, with perfect weather, and perfect companions. The trail was the perfect length and not too steep or too flat. There were great mountains in the distance andContinue reading “Things in My Office: The Stone, a Symbol of Perfection”
The Shrink’s Links: An Honest Meditation
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you enjoy meditation, and don’t mind profanity, try this the next time you need to relax. If you don’t like meditation, but like to laugh, send the children out to play, and watch this video, as long as you don’t mind profanity. Click here toContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: An Honest Meditation”
Reacknowledgment: April is the Cruelest Month
I posted something like this last year, but it bears repeating. Contrary to popular belief, suicide rates do not peak at Christmas time. Here in Western New York, as elsewhere, they peak in April. So does all kinds of psychiatric hospitalization, depression and relapses of addiction. Why is this so, when hopes of Spring abound?Continue reading “Reacknowledgment: April is the Cruelest Month”
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: 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”
Merry Christmas from the Shrink’s Links
This cartoon was found on the web site of a Boulder, Colorado therapist, Barry Erdman. I don’t know what he’s like in his office, but on his site he’s enough of a stitch to have a page devoted to mental health humor. Click here to go to the page.
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: 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”
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