It would be hard to imagine living in a world in which you couldn’t use language to communicate basic wants and desires to others. And…
An acquaintance of mine recently told me about her son diagnosed with autism. He is non-verbal, has difficulty understanding social skills, displays repetitive behavior and…
What’s the difference between a psychologist and a magician? A psychologist pulls habits out of rats! Okay so that joke may have been a bit…
According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, close to half of all children experience school bullying in primary or secondary school, and…
The genocide carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II, took the lives of six million European Jews. However, the number of victims was…
Stop for a second and take a look at the cell phone, laptop or tablet you are using to read this article. Do you know…
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature. – John Bowlby Forming a healthy and enduring…
Traumatic experiences interfere with a person’s ability to self-regulate. Popular reality shows like Intervention, show shocking depictions of people out-of-control with various addictions who are often trauma…
More than sixty years ago, psychiatrist John Bowlby stated that parent-child attachment can be understood within an evolutionary context, in that it is adaptive and…
When a close friend comes to you with a problem, you can only hope you are able to support them and help. Unfortunately, lack of…
For those of you who haven’t come across her already, meet Amy Chua; mother of two, professor of law at Yale, an author of serious…
Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group…
The pharmaceutical industry grosses over $300 billion a year in psychotropic medication sales. Included in this figure are prescriptions for those suffering from depression and…
Complaints, anxieties, and worries often make up a large part of day to day conversation, but worries can consume so much of one’s thoughts that…
http://youtu.be/n6kTmWYIAcw For over a century, the image of Floria Tosca plummeting to her death is one that haunts the hearts and minds of opera lovers…
The smell of fresh cut roses, chocolates for sale, gift cards on the shelves, all signs point to one thing: Valentine’s Day; the holiday that…
With rising political, economic and environmental instability, a growing number of the world’s citizens are becoming increasingly dependent on international humanitarian organizations for survival. It…
We often forget how important siblings are in our lives. Other than our parents, they have usually known us longer than anyone, playing a central…
Statistics show that for every 1,000 children in Canada, 9.2 are in foster care, and in the U.S. the ratio is 6.9 per 1,000 children. The…
New Year’s Eve, director Garry Marshall’s most recent movie attempts to illustrate the intricacies of relationships around the characteristically sentimental celebration of New Year’s Eve. …
