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...

Internet Therapy Helps Treat Mental Health Disorders

By: Swinburne University of Technology Online psychological treatment (etherapy) can be as effective as face-to-face therapy for treating mental health disorders, according to a new study by Swinburne researchers. Published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the study found that therapist assisted...

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.,...

In The Blink of an Eye

There is no way to prepare. No way to brace yourself or let yourself down easy. When a loved one dies suddenly or their death is perceived as sudden, your entire world is turned upside down and inside out.                     Luckily, our bodies have a built-in coping mechanism called...

Can Therapy Help You Change?

Is it possible to truly change? Does therapy help? Many people have turned their lives and fortunes around, while others spend years trying to change with or without therapy, but never seem to progress. What makes the difference? Certainly, there are skilled and unskilled psychotherapists. Therapy can make a...