He said Freud was an unhappy old man who never considered the human spirit in the health of the mind. Abraham Maslow, who died in 1970, was a different kind of psychologist. Rather than studying what goes wrong with a person’s mind, he chose to study what made the mind right. He called this state […]
So many of us lead our lives feeling unworthy. We are convinced that all life has to offer is not really for us. We are worthy only of a little bit of success. But a lot? That’s for others. How wrong we are. It is amazing how our belief system – what we think of […]
In 1982, he was paralyzed from a serious car accident. But Harry Wayne Casey survived, re-learning how to walk, dance and play the piano. Today, Casey is not a household name. But the musical group he created – KC and the Sunshine Band – was famous the world over during the height of the disco […]
Often, it seems the whole world is conspiring against us. Since the mind wants to be right, it reaffirms its helplessness in the face of hard times by using relentless negative self-talk, as in “Yes, I knew things would be this way.” But the mind can be taught to turn off the negative narrative. It […]
This Easter weekend, many families will get together – but some members of the family will be feeling pain. It may be the pain of losing a job. The pain of embarrassment. The pain of losing a person. These are all psychological pains we try to eliminate. But there is a growing movement among psychologists […]
There were reasons to be depressed. At age 9, he was kicked in the head by a horse. He once almost drowned. He suffered from malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that has the power to kill. He disliked his first name, preferring that people refer to him by his last name. A store he […]
