I had dinner a few months ago at the home of a friend who’s wife is a psychologist at a New York City psychiatric hospital. Outside of my NYC therapy office, where I could have made the connection more quickly, I had one of those out-of-context moments when I went to wash my hands inRead more
The anti-vacination movement doesn’t have a science problem, it has a people problem
My social media feeds have lit up the last few weeks in the wake of the measles outbreak tied to Disneyland, with rage directed at the anti-vaccination crown. As a parent and a thinking person, I’m concerned about the health implications of so many choosing not to vaccinate their children. Claims linking vaccines with autism haveRead more
What are you? (Therapy patient? Client?)
If you’re like most people I talk to about this topic, you couldn’t care less about how we refer to the folks we work with in our NYC therapy office. In fact, the odds are slim that you’d ever be referred to by anything but your first name by your therapist. And so it mayRead more
Tribeca Businesses circa 1986
Just for fun, passing along this map of Tribeca Businesses from 1986 that was dug up by Tribeca Citizen. What jumps out first, of course, is a reminder of the prominence of the World Trade Center, it’s buildings looming over the neighborhood in the foreground. In looking at the addresses of the Tribeca businesses thatRead more
The New York Times on Positive thinking: A therapist’s response
“Think positive” is one of those adages that comes in and out of favor in the therapy room and beyond on a roughly 20-year cycle. We’re coming down from the zenith of another wave on that curve, it seems, and the New York Times is ready, as always, to chronicle the ebb. A focus onRead more
The end of psychology? So says the Onion (Or: Because science…)
Like the best satire, this piece from the Onion lends itself to at least a few interpretations. The mock headline reads, “Psychology Comes To Halt As Weary Researchers Say The Mind Cannot Possibly Study Itself.” Perhaps it’s a critique of a critique of Cartesian dualism (and therefore a defense of psychology) or perhaps the OnionRead more
New York Times on Drug Therapies for Depression
The New York Times Retro Report looks back at Prozac, the first successfully marketed medication of the class of medications known as SSRI’s used to treat depression. Check out the 9-minute video and then let’s talk. I discuss depression and the various therapies used to treat it almost everyday. Some of my patients take medicationsRead more
Rain falls down
I’m given gifts of stories and anecdotes in my NYC therapy practice that I can’t help but share (with appropriate anonymity for the therapy patient, of course). Being a therapist in Lower Manhattan, as you might imagine, the stories are often from the world of finance. This one of a business professor–a successful New YorkRead more
Q: What do you say to someone who repeatedly treats you poorly?
A: Nothing. You say nothing. You pack your things and head for the door. That is all.
What to do when you’re in (emotional) pain. (Hint: Act like a baby!)
I don’t turn off my awareness of emotional pain when I leave the therapy office. Here in New York we see people expressing their troubles on the street or on the subway (or on the internet) in all sorts of ways. For most New Yorkers, overhearing someone screaming and yelling on the A train isRead more
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