In my April 14 column, I decided to try to answer a question that I get asked on a regular basis. What makes a good shrink? (Source: À la recherche d’un bon psy. Journal Métro, April 14, 2009) Whenever I meet with high school students about careers in psychology I always get asked the same question: [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
La Gestion de l’Anxiété
Voici la traduction Française d’un article sur la compréhension et le traitement de l’anxiété que j’ai écrit pour l’organisation Phobies-Zéro. Il est long mais pourrait benificier les personnes qui souffrent de ces problèmes. LA GESTION DE L’ANXIÉTÉ Les raisons de l’anxiété La douleur et les ours L’un d’entre nous aime-t-il se sentir anxieux? J’en doute. [...]
Anxiety management
Here is an article I wrote about understanding and treating anxiety disorders. It is long and may not be of interest to people who do not suffer from these difficulties. Nevertheless I decided to make it comprehensive so as to be of most benefit to those who are affected by them, either directly or indirectly. [...]
Distorted self-perceptions
As a psychologist, I sometimes joke that most clients fall into one of two broad categories. The first group (the majority) are those that think very little of themselves. For these people, my job is to try to convince them they are not as bad as they believe. Then there are the rest, the ones [...]
More, more, more
Why would a person drive a Hummer? It seems that the more we have, the more we want. It never ceases to amaze me how demand quickly outstrips supply. Any time we desire something that is beyond our reach we think we will be satisfied with “just the basic necessities.” How many people without personal [...]
In defense of control freaks
CONTROL FREAK – such a pejorative term, isn’t it? After I wrote my last post, I had a client ask me, “I’m not a control freak, am I?” I said, “Of course you are, but that doesn’t make you a bad person.” People don’t control in order to dominate or to manipulate per se. They control in [...]
