November 27, 2015 What Should Anthony Weiner Tell His Child One Day? When there is no possibility of shielding older children from the fact that one of their parents has had a sexual relationship outside of marriage, what is the best way to share the truth?
November 27, 2015 Weiner, Virtual Sex and Reality Congressman Anthony Weiner, with all his experience running campaigns and crafting legislation, may not have accounted for the way the Internet can seduce adults into behavior that threatens marriages and careers
November 27, 2015 Dr. Keith: Treat All Dementia as Depression First Right now, I believe a million or more Americans who have been diagnosed with dementia (including Alzheimer’s dementia), which is debilitating and incurable, are actually suffering with major depression - and that is completely curable in more than 90 percent of cases
November 27, 2015 What Men Really Think About Urinals Here's something you may be surprised to hear: Men envy women's restrooms. For all the women out there who have stood in a long line outside the ladies' room and looked jealously over at the men’s room—with no wait at all—you are about to learn something about men’s “rest room envy.”
November 27, 2015 How Bin Laden's Death Has Revitalized the American Psyche Among the unspeakable injuries inflicted by the late Usama Bin Laden was the sewing of doubt deep in the American psyche about the limits of our power and, by association, the power of good versus evil in the modern world
November 27, 2015 Is Life Experience What Changes Your Brain? Over the past twenty years, I have come to adopt a unified vision of these two perspectives that seems to have been very helpful to my patients as they try to understand their suffering and overcome it
November 27, 2015 Could Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Start as Attention Deficit Disorder? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are very different conditions, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual—the “bible” of psychiatric diagnoses published by the American Psychiatric Association. Yet, my clinical experience tells me they may be linked
November 27, 2015 Survivor's Guilt Haunting the Military Survivor’s guilt is a psychological syndrome in which someone believes he has done wrong by surviving a traumatic situation that claimed the lives of others. It was prominent in survivors of Nazi concentration camps who came to believe—irrationally—that they must have lacked courage or been otherwise morally flawed in order to have lived through the horrors that brought death to their spouses or children or parents or friends
November 27, 2015 J. Crew Plants the Seeds for Gender Identity A recent feature in J. Crew's online catalogue portrays designer Jenna Lyons painting her son Beckett’s toe nails hot pink. The quote accompanying the image reads, “Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink.” Dr. Keith says this is a dramatic example of the way our culture is being encouraged to abandon all trappings of gender identity
November 27, 2015 Are You an Enabler? One of the most difficult aspects of combating addiction and other pathological behaviors--including violence--is that it is so often fueled by the psychological weaknesses of more than one person