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Podcast: Celebrating a COVID Christmas

Podcast: Celebrating a COVID Christmas

We’ve made it to the end of 2020! From polarizing politics to raging fires to COVID-19, it’s been a real doozy. And now the holidays… Do we celebrate with loved... The post Podcast: Celebrating a COVID Christmas first appeared on World of Psychology.
Podcast: Family Perspective on Mental Illness

Podcast: Family Perspective on Mental Illness

What’s it like growing up with a sibling with mental illness? In today’s show, we hear it straight from Gabe’s little sister Debbie, who shares what it was like living... The post Podcast: Family Perspective on Mental Illness first appeared on World of Psychology.
Podcast: Reframing Past Traumas

Podcast: Reframing Past Traumas

What is your life story? Do you feel like a victim of your circumstances? And if so, how does this affect your future? In today’s show, our guest James Sweigert,... The post Podcast: Reframing Past Traumas first appeared on World of Psychology.
Turning Out the Lights on Mania: Dark Therapy

Turning Out the Lights on Mania: Dark Therapy

Heading into Daylight Savings Time here in the Northeast, we are facing the darker, shorter days of winter. For many people that also means a dip in mood. And for a sub-group of those folks,...
How to Break In Faster

How to Break In Faster

“My average UCLA student who’s been successful wrote at least six complete, polished screenplays before finally selling one.”
~William Froug (Twilight Zone, tv show) “I wrote maybe 10 screenplays before I was able to sell one.”
~Nicolas Kazan (At Close Range) “We wrote six scripts before
The Role of Self-Awareness in Therapy

The Role of Self-Awareness in Therapy

Self-awareness is a necessary part of healing. Without awareness, we’d live a life perpetuating the patterns that can work against us in various ways emotionally, relationally, behaviorally, or otherwise. Being able to reflect on ourselves emotionally,...
Re-booting our Capacity to Cope with the Corona Virus: Strategies

Re-booting our Capacity to Cope with the Corona Virus: Strategies

Facing unknowns is very difficult. Facing an ever growing list of unknowns ups the challenge.  The most looming unknown is COVID-19. It is a matter of life and death. As we continue to face this pandemic we are hit with the news of over 207,000 deaths,...
Imposter Syndrome: Impact on Black Women

Imposter Syndrome: Impact on Black Women

The term “imposter syndrome” was coined by psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in 1978 to describe an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent,...
How To Change Your Behaviors & Thoughts

How To Change Your Behaviors & Thoughts

Do you feel that you are able to change ingrained patterns of behavior that you have had for a long time? If not, you’re not alone! Most people feel that behaviors (as well as thoughts) are difficult to change....
Learning To Trust Yourself Again After Betrayal

Learning To Trust Yourself Again After Betrayal

Everyone talks about having a hard time trusting another person after a betrayal and so few discuss how difficult it is to trust ourselves as a result. We focus on what the other person did to us and try to find ways to

3 Free CEs for Therapists in Private Practice

Isn’t it interesting that trainings about private practice often do not provide CEs? It is traditionally because the business of psychotherapy is not seen as a clinical issue. However, working...
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Practical Psychoanalysis Blog Moves to a New Home

Practical Psychoanalysis Blog Moves to a New Home

  This will be my last blog post for PsychCentral website. It has been a great journey to have the Practical Psychoanalysis Blog here and I am saddened to say that it will no
This Day Is Done

This Day Is Done

You have ADHD? Me too. I’m a writer, so my default is to write about it. And so I have, right here at Psych Central, three times a week for nine years now....
Today I Love My New Life

Today I Love My New Life

Today I love my new life now that I do not have to create new blog posts for one place any more, at least not for the next little while,...

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