“We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.” Mark Twain
The loss experienced when a partner engages in a romantic affair is often described as a loss of resources, such as love, time, attention, sexual energy, and financial resources. The unfaithful person is described as transferring such resources from the spouse to the lover. [...]
Back in the 1800’s, scientists marveled at the movement of large flocks of birds. Imagine hundreds of birds all taking flight at the same time. The patterns that the flock generates are amazing, shifting and transforming from one shape to the next. It makes you wonder how each individual bird can possibly play a part [...]
These reflections are based on several chapters from my new book Secrets of Psychotherapy: Restoring the Soul.
I appreciate Dr. Pychyl’s recent posting on existential psychiatrist Dr. Viktor Frankl’s approach to procrastination. Here are a few more reflections of my own I would like to add to his.
Dr. Frankl, one of the creators of existential psychotherapy, [...]
We constantly get the message that everybody is different, and that we’re all unique. Yet almost all of us are guilty of attributing thoughts and feelings to others based solely on how we’d react ourselves in their particular situation. This fallacy–as unrecognized as it is prevalent–apparently derives from the common assumption that our individual biology and biography [...]
As described in a previous PT blog, 100 university presidents signed the Amethyst Initiative, asking to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. Two initial signatories (both from Georgia, where American temperance traditions of abstinence-binge drinking run deep) immediately withdrew their support under pressure, but then 20 more presidents signed on.
The debate [...]
