“How do people change?” I was at my group interview for graduate school, and my interviewer, Dr. Stan Charnofsky, the head of the department to which I was hoping to gain admission, had just asked us this question. The eight [...]
A friend of mine made a Facebook post a few weeks ago about how therapists get a “December bonus” every year because so many people experience extreme holiday stress. And while he’s very much correct in this observation, it got [...]
When I was in graduate school, we learned that families are systems that affect each other. When one “piece” of the family changes, the others adjust to accommodate those changes so that the family maintains a balance and its needs [...]
I complain a lot. I would have said I “used to” complain a lot, but it has become abundantly clear through a new project I have undertaken that this is not entirely the truth. Let me explain how this realization [...]
I have a story to tell you with a great moral. Allow me, please, to be a little bit of a nerd for a moment, and then I’ll get to the psychology of it all. I promise. Anyone familiar with [...]