John Lee, author of The Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man and The Half-Lived Life, explores another issue that pertains particularly to men: their relationships with their mothers. In his newest book, Breaking the Mother-Son Dynamic, Lee teaches ...
Anyone reading this magazine has a foundational knowledge of addiction. They know that at the level of true addiction there exists a number of telling symptoms. Arguably a key symptom is a pathological compulsive drug-seeking ...
It’s called the “blame game,” an age-old strategy that vilifies and scapegoats anyone haplessly in the wrong place at the right time. The blame game condemns innocent suspects with a display of ugly finger pointing ...
A problem that exists in both substance use and mental health disorders is that there is no direct measurement of the disorders. We identify them indirectly by self-report, observing behaviors, employing screening and assessment instruments, ...
“Girly thoughts” is the term noted psychologist Dr. Patricia O’Gorman coined for the “toxic inner voice” that women oftentimes have—the negative self-talk that causes them to focus on counterproductive messages and diminishes their personal power. ...
Through a cooperative effort with NACoA (National Association for Children of Alcoholics) and the Wellbriety Movement, a new program has emerged and is designed to spread family healing and recovery across Indian Country. The Wellbriety ...
Once again it is summer time. As a matter of fact, it begins this year on June 21, as it usually does. This date has been recognized for thousands of years as the “summer solstice,” ...
The explosion came without warning. The blast threw him against the wall. Dennis Potter felt the fireball sear into his flesh. He had never known pain like this before. Toxic chemical vapors burned lung ...
Dear Dr. Toni: I have been involved with a man for four years whose one daughter has a history of bulimia, his other daughter is twenty pounds overweight, and his brother is a heroin ...
Therapeutic alliance, irrespective of the field of clinical work, is often referred to as the sine qua non of all successful clinical work. This is true in working with substance abusing adolescents, whether in inpatient, ...
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