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befriending anxiety

It is crucial for psychiatrists and therapists in NYC to educate clients that anxiety is not to be avoided, feared

toxic habits of the mind

Thanks to Martin Seligman (founder of the movement called Positive Psychology), therapists have a much better understanding of three of

emotional pain cannot be killed

A recent NY Times article stated that “Drug overdose fatalities in New York City tripled between 1990 and 2006, a

the complexity of wanting

We don’t know what we want, but we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact. Jean-Paul Sartre How

the varieties of addictive experience

I’m stealing this title from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James. And yes, the comparison between ‘religious’

thou shalt feel inadequate

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public