Dr. James Tobin Ph.D. - Psychologist
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Dr. Tobin regularly publishes blog articles and posts information and writings by other authors on various issues including child development and adolescence, parenting, romantic love, men and masculinity, the psychotherapy process, the training and supervision of psychologists, sexual compulsivity and addiction, and organizational culture and change. If there is a topic you would like Dr. Tobin to feature, please email him directly at jt@jamestobinphd.com.
Responding to the Narcissistic Epidemic: How to Help Our Teens Avoid Indoctrination and Live Original Lives
Nosedive In the Black Mirror episode Nosedive, the main character Lacie is embedded in a futuristic vision of society in which retinal implants allow for social ranking scores to be visible to anyone, and for anyone to provide a rating in real-time that...
The Psychological Aftermath of Unresolved Abuse and Trauma: Vertical Splitting
The Mind Forms Cells That Contain Intense Emotional Experience – Potentially Creating an Insidious Coping Mechanism I. Traumatic Experience Must Be Managed The psychological distress and psychiatric symptoms resulting from exposure to abuse and trauma, especially...
Couples in Crisis: How Couple Therapy Mitigates Stubborn Psychological Defenses
Research indicates that by the time a couple seeks couple therapy and arranges an appointment, the partners have been at war for multiple years on a range of seemingly unresolvable issues (#1). Often a recent event is characterized as a “crisis” that sent...
A New Challenge in Anger Management: The Rise of Narcissistic Rage
There are actually many different types of anger, each with their own unique psychological origin and nature of presentation. Scientific research (#1) indicates two common causes of anger: (1) ongoing unresolved stress that accumulates and ultimately surpasses what...
The Four Things You Need to Know About Your Narcissistic Boss
Listen to the entire article: Whether I am serving in the role of executive coach or psychotherapist, most of my clients inevitably discuss problems they are having with a narcissistic manager. Elsewhere I have described the increasing prevalence of...
The Disorder of Accumulated Stress: Anxiety
Listen to the entire article: The 11 psychiatric diagnoses that make up the Anxiety Disorders category of the current psychiatric nomenclature center on the manifestation of worry, concern about future threats, ruminations about performance and social...
The Illusion of Complexity
Listen to the entire article: Often the solutions to many problems encountered in daily living and in contemporary relationships are not that difficult to reach. In fact, it seems to me that we often know what we need to do, as the issue at hand is not...
Counteridentification
Listen to the entire article: Counteridentification is an important term in psychological theory and in the literature on psychotherapy. It is also implicated in numerous problems that many adults experience. It refers to the common unconscious motivation in...
What You Elicit
Listen to the entire article: Many approaches to self-improvement and personal change are largely focused on self-understanding, on learning about one’s problematic or limiting beliefs, tendencies, and self-destructive actions. Although this perspective on...