Thanks to Martin Seligman (founder of the movement called Positive Psychology), therapists have a much better understanding of three of the most common self-defeating habits/patterns of the mind. In response to challenging situations in our lives, we often fall into habits/patterns of thinking that are excessively: Personal Pervasive Permanent To illustrate, let’s take a look… Read More»
A recent NY Times article stated that “Drug overdose fatalities in New York City tripled between 1990 and 2006, a new study reports, and most of the increase came from the growing abuse of prescription pain medicines.” These statistics simply reinforce what we already know anecdotally: medications designed to alleviate physical pain are increasingly being… Read More»
We don’t know what we want, but we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre How many times have you found yourself in a state of wanting what you don’t want to be wanting? Too many to count? Welcome to the human condition. What is your “drug of choice”: beer? hard… Read More»
I’m stealing this title from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James. And yes, the comparison between ‘religious’ and ‘addictive’ is purposeful. Suffice it to say that it is not incidental that liquor stores advertise “wine and spirits,” and that both religion and addictive (intoxicating) behaviors are ‘places’ people go to for comfort,… Read More»
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. —Marshall McLuhan One primary engine of the modern world is the selling of things, services and ideas. Enormous problems arise for us when we fail to recognize the insidiousness of the advertisements/messages that are… Read More»
