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Anger Management: Top Five Traits of Explosive People
If someone held a gun to my head and told me to come up with a list of the top five traits of angry people. This would be that list. 1. You are in a hurry. Gotta do it, gotta get it done, gotta get home, gotta pick up the kid, gotta finish the project. What you...
Affordable Psychotherapy in NYC: A Path To Treatment
You can find therapy for as little at $35 per session in New York City. The institute where I trained to become an analyst runs a referral service out of its headquarters on 13th Street in Greenwich Village. Offering affordable psychotherapy, it is a path to...
Anger management: Anger Managed Well
Novice firefighters learn to put fires out by setting them. Instructors load rooms of furniture into old shipping containers, start a fire, and then show the newcomers how a room burns. In this photo, Marine firefighters watch everything in a room ignite or...
When loved ones make the call for help with anger management
I get a lot of calls from the spouses, partners and parents of people who need anger management. People are angry and rageful and loved ones search on the net for help and ring my phone. I wish it worked. It doesn’t. I learned it the hard way by trying and failing...
Some thoughts on social anxiety and anger management
Some Thoughts on Social Anxiety and How It Relates to Anger Management As I continue my study of the explosive patient, I’ve been perplexed by the relationship between anger mismanaged and social anxiety. What I’m finding is that social anxiety can be the flip side of...
Misperceptions about anger management
It’s time to clear up some misconceptions about anger management. It’s all guys. No it isn’t. Anger is an equal opportunity defense mechanism, and women are as troubled by it as men. They are all out of control. Well, yes. When they are in the grip of a rage attack,...
Why you don’t need anger management
If a top-down admonition to breathe deeply and calm down worked, you wouldn’t be searching for anger management help. Nanoseconds before the outburst of anger, your nervous system flashes over with feeling. Some patients go to pieces inside, and then the rage is an...
The Neuroscience of Panic and Fear
Before you seek help for your for panic or fear, know the brain-based differences between the two. Then you can get help that works. Jaak Panksepp is a researcher who has delineated two places in the brain which process different kinds of fear and call for different...
Acting: It’s a career, not a diagnosis
Attention mental health workers everywhere. Here’s some unsolicited supervision from a actress who cashed in her chips 20 years ago and became a psychotherapist. Acting is a career choice, not a diagnosis of unmet childhood narcissistic needs. Good acting channels the...
When therapy isn’t great: good psychotherapy vs. bad psychotherapy
Therapy isn’t always kismet. You sift through the practitioner’s websites, meet up with a couple, and choose the one you like the best. Or the one that’s on your plan. Or the one whose office is nearby. After about six months, you may end up realizing…it’s not...
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