Why Do Bullies Bully?

We’re all familiar with bullying - those deliberate, aggressive behaviors intended to cause harm to others.  Chances are, if you haven’t been the recipient or the doer of these hostile acts, you’ve at least seen bullying occur at some point in your childhood.  Although bullying is an...

How to Deal With an Angry Spouse

It is important to differentiate the spouse whose anger is a healthy response to various partner insufficiencies, such as lack of attunement, inadequate empathy, neglect, poor partner functioning -in short anger as a protest to loss of love and safety – and anger which is more characterological, i.e.,...

Children’s sense of threat from parental fighting determines trauma symptoms

By: Kim Cobb (Southern Methodist University) Mothers’ trauma symptoms were unrelated to any traumatic response to the violence that children reported If children feel threatened by even very low levels of violence between their parents, they may be at increased risk for developing trauma symptoms, new...

Are You Addicted to Facebook (or Twitter, JDate or internet)?

By: Patricia Rotsztain Frost, LMHC, CH The “social media” fad has convinced us that it is a good time investment to spend hours in front of the computer, post every step we walk, twit every time we go to the bathroom, and become part of this culture of peeping Tom’s and exhibitionists....

MIDDLE AGED BABY BOOMERS AND ADDICTION

A woman enters my office disheveled, thin, mid forties, with hollow eyes.  It is as if the sparkle in her eyes ceased to exist a very long time ago.  She tells me she has been drinking and is using methamphetamines.  I am not surprised to hear this because lately my practice has been filled with middle...