Psychotherapy Emasculated: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men I.
The Ides of March My father once told me he didn’t know how a boy became a man without the experience of combat. I’m sure he never wished...
Bad Boys
So what’s the appeal of bad boys? Let’s be clear that the real “bad boys,” are the ones who have failed, the incarcerated felons, the...
Your Guts
I’ve been told that leaving academia when I did, at the relatively tender age of 63, and at the top of my scholarly and teaching game,...
The Peace that Passeth All Understanding
When he was born, his mama said, “The moon turned black, and the clock stopped dead. Lord, have mercy,” she said, “what have I done? Is...
Forbidden Knowledge
Parental Advisory: Explicit Content One of the truths about our neurophysiology is habituation, feeling less and less with repetition of...
Intimacy and Habituation: We Need to Talk
One of the problems with exploring the neuroscience behind any kind of human experience is the fear that doing so is reductive, and turns...
Passion and Ease
To understand what matters to us and what does not, we need to understand some pretty basic things about our emotional life. Most of our...
Sophomoric Emotion
I have long found it odd that most college curricula in psychology do not include a course on emotion, as the research on emotion has...