When I was a kid growing up in England one of my best friends was a lad named Tim Carter. Tim lived in a big house with his parents, three siblings and a variety of animals. I used to spend a lot of time there and, being from a far more modest background [...]
Over the weekend, Mark Sanchez, University of Southern California’s star quarterback, had something of an amazing football game. His team defeated Virginia by the monster score of 52-7, while Sanchez himself completed 26 of 35 passes for a career high 338 yards, including three touchdowns. The reason this is "amazing" isn’t because three weeks [...]
So, dear readers, how did I defend myself to my possibly-future boss, Billie Dawn, at an Au Bon Pain café in the Back Bay area of Boston, where we were both there attending the APA convention? Recall she asked with no small degree of incredulity, You’re a media psychologist — how can you [...]
What is depression? Is it a disease? A mental disorder? A brain dysfunction? A psychological syndrome? An existential or spiritual crisis? Several of my fellow PT bloggers posted on depression recently. I want to discuss depression here as a clinical and forensic psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy for more than three decades.
For me, the [...]
When I was writing my book “Can’t Remember What I Forgot,” the seminal question that friends and acquaintances asked me was whether doing crossword puzzles was really going to help them avoid Alzheimer’s and other kinds of cognitive decline. Now that the book is out, that’s the question that journalists are most keen to ask [...]
