Today, professions battle to be considered relevant in the public financing landscape.Thus, schools seek fancy technology for their problematic students and clinics promulgate quickie solutions and electrical gadgets that a witch doctor would admire. Sadly, these ignore The Elephant In The Room: that the mind is complex, the unconscious is powerful, and good Read More
A Psychologist's Thoughts on Clinical Practice, Behavior, and Life
The Emotionally Cold Leader
April 2, 2018
While some emotional isolation can help a leader, serving to protect them from involvement in unhealthy regressive employee practices, it can damage too. If too great, it frustrates the normal dependency needs of their staff though the warmth of managers can compensate for this.
In these businesses, it may seem as if no one Read More
In these businesses, it may seem as if no one Read More
The Murdered VA Psychologists's Killer:
March 11, 2018
With more information becoming known, I can't help thinking that the killer's behavior had little to do with his Army service and much with his childhood experiences and personality. His mother was a drug addict and he suffered many foster family placements. He had long been impulsive, having once thrown a foster brother down Read More
The Murdered California Psychologists
March 10, 2018
These killings reminded me of the past killing of the New York City psychologist (Fahey) by a colleague's patient. The psychiatrist had seen him briefly, seventeen years before. Now, the patient brought a hatchet, intending to kidnap the psychiatrist, hold him for ransom, and get his mother out of a nursing home. Fahey heard Read More
How My Prayer For a Gun Found an Invitation to Jesus
February 26, 2018
Once, while driving at night along a lonely, poorly lighted road in Mid-America, my car got caught on the divider as I made a turn. I left the car and stood staring, wondering what to do for this was before the era of cellphones.
A car containing four huge guys stopped opposite me. As Read More
A car containing four huge guys stopped opposite me. As Read More
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When Leaders with a Healthy Obsessive Personality Become Destructive
February 22, 2018
Though people with severe obsessive-compulsive traits, having a diagnosable disorder, can hinder an organization's operation, these basic characteristics of orderliness, precision, and properly delegating authority, are beneficial in a milder form. Some very successful managers have obsessive-compulsive natures.
Danger arises when the leader has an excessive need for order and control since these demands Read More
Danger arises when the leader has an excessive need for order and control since these demands Read More
Organizational Deterioration Under the Schizoid Manager
February 20, 2018
Organizational authority is granted a manager because of its needs. To accomplish tasks which it can achieve using the leader's skills and experience. And, recognizing this logic, employees submit to the manager's authority. But during stressful times, a leader's pathological characteristics can emerge such as the schizoid feature of isolation.
Now, the leader isolates Read More
Now, the leader isolates Read More
A Murder Threat Against President Reagan
February 16, 2018
Once, at a Long Island community hospital, a co-worker/psychiatrist revealed his anxiety: a hospitalized patient had made murder threats against President Reagan. The in-patient unit was only for short-term treatment, the patient must soon be released, and the doctor didn’t know what to do. “Call the Secret Service,” I advised. He did, Read More
Why Movies and TV Series Like "24" Are So Emotionally Gripping
January 28, 2018
Though loving the long-running TV series "24," I've often found it too painful to view. So greatly that I stopped watching long before its concluding episode. Considering why, I concluded that some script elements of 24 reawaken unconscious childhood fears. "24" portrays a toddler's world: one of great, continuing danger; one where "betrayal" is constant, in the Read More
Psychiatrists’ Families Aren’t Healthier Than President Trump’s!
January 6, 2018
In a well-received book some years ago, a psychiatrist described his mother’s naked body being used as a card-playing table by his father and cronies. In a paper by a psychoanalyst-psychiatrist (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, “The Sad Soul of the Psychiatrist,” early 1970s), it was stated that clinicians who treat children do Read More