Psychology & Psychiatry
98 Articles & Excerpts
From Whence We Came
 The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power
by Gregg Jacobs, Ph.D.
If you look at all the things money can buy today, there's no question that we're better off than any generation in history. In the industrialized world, we're blessed with an abundance of choice in every aspect of life.
The Invisible Electric Fence: Anxiety
 The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Here's the fine print on comfort: It comes with an invisible electric fence. Keep well away from pushing your own limits and you will be cheerfully oblivious to the walled platform you have created.
Stuck
The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
'I'm stuck,' said the shiny man sitting across from me. His hair, product-tamed and light-reflecting, matches a remarkable pair of gleaming loafers. I get a first impression of a glossy hardback novel squashed between classy bookends.
The Man in the Black Mercedes
The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Are you up for a fight? Because I'm telling you, right up front, it's a fight to get from where you are to what you want. That battle is with yourself. We are the rocks we are pushing uphill - if and when we choose to make the push.
What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Some years ago, back at the dawn of Prozac, I met weekly with a woman who was excruciatingly single and full of self-recrimination for it. Hers is a familiar unhappy story.
Consciousness or Bust
 Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough NOT Becoming Conscious In An Unconscious World
by Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
And then one day I found myself standing at a podium, calm and confident as I began to speak, when I was suddenly blindsided by a certified DSM-IV panic attack. My voice began to shake, my heart began to palpitate, my eyesight went dim, my hands went
Once More with Feeling
Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough NOT Becoming Conscious In An Unconscious World
by Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
To restore the balance, let me give you the more personal side of what I have just been speechifying about. Perhaps the most important lesson about healing the soul that I hope you will take from this book is that the symptoms and painful emotions
Psychiatry at the Center of Our Cultural Crisis
Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough NOT Becoming Conscious In An Unconscious World
by Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
This choice is the underlying theme of the recent television smash hit The Sopranos, which-judging from its immense popularity and the extravagant critical acclaim it has inspired-seems to have struck a deeply resonant chord in our cultural consciousness.
Repetition, Reflection, and the Search for Meaning
Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication Isn't Enough NOT Becoming Conscious In An Unconscious World
by Elio Frattaroli, M.D.
Throughout this book, I have tried to convey a sense of the process of healing the soul-the inward journey of self-discovery and self-actualization-as I have experienced it in the psychotherapeutic process.
What Do You Do About the Quarterlife Crisis?
 Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
Hopefully, this book will help to change that perception. This book won't solve the quarterlife crisis, just as the hundreds of books on the midlife crisis won't make anybody any younger.
How Do You Recognize a Quarterlife Crisis?
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
While at its heart the quarterlife crisis is an identity crisis, it causes twentysomethings' conflicting emotions to show up in different ways. Sometimes they reach a state of panic sparked by a feeling of loss and uncertainty.
Why Worry About a Quarterlife Crisis?
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
The whirlwind of new responsibilities, new liberties, and new choices can be entirely overwhelming for someone who has just emerged from the shelter of twenty years of schooling.
What Is the Quarterlife Crisis?
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
The quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis stem from the same basic problem, but the resulting panic couldn't be more opposite. At their cores, both the quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis are about a major life change.
Spirituality of The Deep
 Dark Nights of the Soul
by Thomas Moore, Ph.D.
The language of psychology may not say enough about the darkness and therefore may not get you through. With its therapeutic goals, psychology reduces experience too far. Its mission is to relieve you of your suffering.
The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
 Open to Desire
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
One of my favorite stories comes from the Sufi tradition of mystical Islam. It is a tale that tells us exactly what we will have to face if we endeavor to walk the path of desire.
Let Me Tell You a Secret That Will Change Your Life
 Positive Energy : 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love
by Judith Orloff, M.D.
It's about energy, creativity, the rhythms of existence - how their compelling interconnection gives birth to an inner voice so sophisticated it'll teach you to harness the positive and dispel negativity.
Why Women Are More Perceptive
 The Definitive Book of Body Language
by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
When we say someone is 'perceptive' or 'intuitive' about people, we are unknowingly referring to their ability to read another person's body language and to compare these cues with verbal signals. In other words, when we say that we have a 'hunch'
Understanding The Basics
The Definitive Book of Body Language
by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
Everyone knows someone who can walk into a room full of people and within minutes give an accurate description about the relationships between those people and what they are feeling. The ability to read a person's attitudes and thoughts by their behavior
Journey to Elsewhen
 Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Priests vow to remain celibate, physicians vow to do no harm, and letter carriers vow to swiftly complete their appointed rounds despite snow, sleet
The Secret Life of the Mind
 Anatomy of a Secret Life
by Gail Saltz, M.D.
It was loneliness that drew her to the desktop computer at first, and later on it was excitement. Adrian always made sure to finish her homework first, and then she kissed her mother good night (her father was usually traveling) and went upstairs to her
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