You need not be a prisoner of distressing experiences of the past; you can create a shield of resilience.
Bitter to the End Toward Dad
Divorcees can get tremendous mileage by being "wronged" by their spouse.
Ongoing Labors of Love: Changing Mental Set about How to Help Wounded Warriors and Others
Rethinking what steps we can take to help veterans and other traumatized people
War-Traumatized People: What to Call Them, How to Help Them
Controversies about labeling and helping veterans and other traumatized people
Mother's Day Thoughts: What's Funny, and What's Not?
Myths, Humor, and "Jokes" about Mothers
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Beyond the Flowers and Cards, Mother's Day's Original Meaning
The role of war and peace in the origin of Mother's Day
Why NOT Call War Trauma a Mental Illness?
Gains and losses of calling war trauma a mental illness
What Is a Healthy Response to War?
Should war-caused emotional pain be called a mental illness?
Finding the Sacred
Listening to war veterans brings us to the core of life
What's Wrong With This Picture? Psychiatrists' Focus on Drugs and Emotional Distance
When money and drugs trump therapists' humane approach
The Astonishing Power of Listening
How respectful listening helps without pathologizing
Bouncing off the Bottom
It is human nature to go backwards before going forward
Overcoming Homophobia: Progress Despite the Rocky Road
Homophobia, servicemembers, and the lords of psychiatric diagnosis
Every Civilian Listen to a Vet's Story: Marking Memorial Day
Ending America's war-illteracy problem and increasing human connections
Famous people, bad decisions
Why do famous people often get in such big trouble?
Wrestling With Demons: The Spiritual Redemption of Mickey Rourke
Healing the painful past does not mean forgetting it.
Is Depression a Disease?
The recurring nature of depression.
The Psychology of Suffering: How We Cope With Cosmic Evil
Hell in Haiti
Can Therapy Be Addictive? : The Power and Terror of Termination
What happens when psychotherapy goes on either too briefly or too long?
Scrooge's Spiritual Redemption: How the Unconscious Heals
Pay close attention to your dreams this Christmas eve.
A Response to "My LIfe in Therapy": Daphne Merkin's Long and Difficult "Education in Disillusioned Realism"
Did Daphne Merkin's four decades of psychotherapy fail miserably?
Reading The Red Book: How C.G. Jung Salvaged His Soul
Is the Red Book a record of Jung's flirtation with madness?
Clinical Despair: Science, Psychotherapy and Spirituality in the Treatment of Depression
What exactly is "clinical despair"? And how can we treat it?
The Voice of the Authentic Self
Learning to Listen
The Single Person's Thought Leader Series: Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
The most essential step for attracting genuine love.
The Best Way to Say I'm Sorry
Why not make your apology the best possible?
Those Darned Emotions! They can't be out-talked
Learn the language of emotions to change how you feel.
What is Existential Psychotherapy? And Why it Matters Today.
Coming to terms with reality without denying, avoiding or sugar-coating it.
Dealing with the Put-Downs
Sometimes it really is about them, not you
A Lesson in Loss from Susan Saint James
A remarkable woman talks about her son's death.
Opening Up When Tragedy Strikes: Are You Sure It’s a Good Thing?
The myths about coping
Does the Death of Bin Laden Help the 9/11 Families to Heal?
Bin Laden's Death Changes the Trauma Narrative of 9/11
Emotional Story-Telling after Stressful Experiences: A Way to Find Meaning
Can writing memoirs transform the meaning of trauma?
How to work through experiences of discrimination
How can you recall negative past experiences without being overwhelmed?
Virtual Reality, A New Therapy Part One: Virtual Iraq-Afghanistan
Innovations producing significant opportunities for medicine.
Rehab Stinks for Weiner, but It's Great for "Real" Addicts
Is rehab nation good for alcoholics, but not for sex addicts?
Japan's Disaster
How can we provide culture-specific help?
Weathering the Storm
We can rise from the ashes of failure stronger than before
Can PTSD Lead to Disease?
What affects your mind can hurt your body.
The New Survivors
Cancer endows survivors with qualities not even they knew they had.
Down But Not Out
How setbacks force us to take risks, learn, and grow.
The Anniversary Effect
Being mindful of your calendar can help you avoid mood swings.
A Second Lease
What one woman learned after surviving a terrible accident
Coping With Loss
What can we learn from our elders?
Healing Rifts
How to reach out and make amends
After the Attack
The story behind Soul Surfer
Stories from Haiti
Self-care after the earthquake
Drawing Out Trauma
How art lets children recover
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