The Ripple Effect of Anxiety During the Pandemic
As the number of COVID-19 cases surges, and death rates continue to rise, anxiety is escalating. Kluger’s recent piece in Time, “The Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing an Anxiety Pandemic,” depicts the proliferation of new and recurring anxiety...
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 could...
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 the...
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