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Consuming Fear or Consumed by Fear?

05/12/2025
After the terrorist attacks in Paris, I heard a priest give a sermon where he...
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Why I Am Glad That I Don’t Know Anything

05/12/2025
Recently I received a call from one of my patients who told me that he...
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Failing to Succeed

05/12/2025
I recently saw a Michael Jordan poster that pointed out all the shots that he...
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Being Present Doesn’t Have to Be an Art

05/12/2025
David Brooks had an opinion piece in the New York Times on January 21, 2014...
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Why Some of Us Procrastinate

05/12/2025
I've been helped by my patients to see patterns of brain functioning in people who...
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Grief…shrine or No Shrine?

05/12/2025
I've had several requests to write another blog about grief.  A number of my patients...
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Shame vs Empathy

05/12/2025
Empathy is good and shame is bad.  So why is this a big deal?  It...
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Adhd and Ptsd

05/12/2025
Recently, someone who I have treated for several years was in my office and as...
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Is Ptsd Curable?

05/12/2025
An opinion piece in the New York Times [January 22, 2016] by Richard A. Friedman...
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Bullying Revisited

05/12/2025
I have recently been reacquainted with the long term impact of bullying by someone who sees...
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