Category: Psychology

September 9, 2011

The Zones of Sadness from September 11th

“It’s suddenly critically important to keep that kernel of humanness. It’s not optional anymore. There’s something that keeps human beings human and we’d better understand it and share it.”—Rosemary We conclude our focus on Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11...

September 6, 2011

Charles Strozier on WBAI

The following is a recent interview WBAI with Charles Strozier, author of Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses. *Charles Strozier will be discussing the book tonight at...

September 6, 2011

Charles Strozier's Clinical Meditations on 9/11

“I have walk my dog. My son may be using pot, the terrorists attacked, and I still have to make dinner.” In conjunction with his book Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and...

September 1, 2011

Avidan Milevsky — “The Dougherty Gang”: The Dark Side of a Close Sibling Bond

The following post is by Avidan Milevsky, Ph.D., author of Sibling Relationships in Childhood and Adolescence: Predictors and Outcomes. It all allegedly started in the early hours of August 2, 2011. A white 2006 Subaru was pulled over by an...

July 28, 2011

Mari Ruti asks Why Fall in Love?

Mari Ruti, author of The Summons of Love, also writes a blog for Psychology Today called The Juicy Bits: Love, lust, and the luster of life, recently wrote a post exploring the reasons why it is important to fall in...

July 22, 2011

The Summons of Love

We end this week by looking at love. Specifically, Mari Ruti’s new book The Summons of Love. In the book, Ruti portrays love as a much more complex, multifaceted phenomenon than we tend to appreciate—an experience that helps us encounter...

June 2, 2011

9/11 After Ten Years: A New Blog from Charles Strozier

Charles Strozier, author of the forthcoming Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses, has started a blog 9/11 After Ten Years that addresses many of the issues in...

September 8, 2010

The Number One Cause of College Happiness — David Leibow

On his blog The College Shrink, David Leibow, author of What to Do When College Is Not the Best Time of Your Life, uncovers the reason why college students are so unhappy. How unhappy are they? According to a 2009...

July 27, 2010

Peter Sloterdijk and David Barash Look Back on Anger

In a recent issue of The Chronicle Review, three commentators explored the phenomenon of rage which seems to be a more dominant characteristic of American society than ever before. In his article Look Ahead in Anger: Hyperbolic rhetoric threatens to...

July 25, 2010

Michael LaSala: Coming Out, Coming Home

Michael LaSala has just begun Gay and Lesbian Well-Being, a blog on the Psychology Today website. In his first post, LaSala outlines some of the key lessons learned from the many interviews he conducted with families with gay or lesbian...

October 30, 2009

Is anger the key? Dr. Henry Kellerman weighs in

In a series of posts for the Psychology Today blog, Dr. Henry Kellerman, author of Dictionary of Psychopathology, argues that while love may the world go ’round, anger is the key. Anger, he suggests results from our efforts manage disappointment...