Dr. Stanley Goldstein - Author and Psychologist

June 2010

Random Thoughts on the Mental Health and Writing Businesses

Why Teenagers Date Inappropriately

My Life as a Secret Agent

The Recent Russian Spy Arrests

War and Ignorance



July 2010

The Best, Cheapest Activity You Can Engage In With Your Child

The Person You Should Think More Than Twice About Dating

Why Psychologists Don't (Usually) Treat Serial Killers

General Eisenhower's Advice on Plans and Decisions

Of Apple, Inc., Steve Jobs, and General Patton

Reflections on War

Changing Societies

Depression and Rural Living

Loneliness, Futility, and Depression

Soldier Suicides



August 2010

Depression in Small Work Groups

Academia and Government Service

Psychotherapy Patients and Their Doctor

"I Should Write a Book About My Life."

How Children Became Customers

The Psychotic Child's View of Reality

Success in Psychotherapy

Sigmund Freud, William James, and the Humility of Greatness

The Complex Nature of School Bullying

The Romanticizing of Mental Illness in Movies and Television

How a Lawyer Should Never Behave in Court

Breaking the Golden Rule of Public Speaking

The Truth About Toy Guns and Children



September 2010

Experiencing Disaster Far From the Catastrophe

Responding Instinctively to a Hungry Bear

The Importance of Pre-adolescent Development

Murder and Personality

Psychological Development, Schools, and Poverty

The Nature of Auditory Hallucinations ("hearing voices")

The Fallacy of the "Healthy Troubled" Adolescent

Human "Living Machines"

Preventing Childhood Injury

Military Leadership and Organizational Success

Memories and Widowhood

Children as Witnesses



October, 2010

The Serious Business of Peekaboo

When to Refuse a Broadcast Invitation

International Adoption

Is a Person With Emotional Problems Capable of Healthy Love?

"It's Monday and I'm not going to school wearing WHITE underwear!"

The Devastating "Abandonment Depression"

The Crucial Importance of Fathers

PTSD in Parents

Using Translators in Afghanistan

Parent/​Child Anxiety

Avoiding Unpleasantness or How to Make the Problematic Seem Desirable

Psychotherapy and Artistic Creativity

The Powerful Dracula Fable



November, 2010

Understanding Foreigner's Behavior

Reading E-books

What Students Hate About School



January, 2011

The Arizona Murders and Mental Health Patients

Excessive Video Game Play By Teenagers

A Teenager's Suicide (Addendum added on January 20, 2011)

E-book Anxieties

Educating Children About Mental Health Issues

Humor and Mental Health Difficulties

The Portrayal of Psychotherapy on "In Treatment"

The Shocking Truth About Electroconvulsive Treatment (ECT) or Shocking People Into Health

Using Hypnosis To Reduce The Pain From Medical Disorders

Should Emotionally Disturbed Criminals Be Considered Immoral?

Why Criticizing A Child For Crying Is Unhelpful

Mother Murders Her Teenagers For Being Mouthy


February, 2011

Why Some People Attempt Suicide

The Troubled Adolescent's Difficulty With Time

Teenagers Who Make Bad Decisions

Attention and Pain or "And A Little Child Shall Lead Them..."

Why People Help Others or The Psychology of Altruism

Dialysis and Patient Personality

Child Abuse in America

Deception and Self-Deception in War and Life

After A Relationship Ends

Why A Financial Journalist Should Resist Giving Parenting Advice

Confused Child/​Disabled Adult

Stage Fright

The King's Speech or How World War II Might Have Been Avoided


March, 2011

Why Normal People Make Illogical Decisions

Zero Tolerance Equals Zero Thinking

Preventing A Suicide

Depressed Fathers

TV Interviews

Distressed Mothers

Childhood Cancer and Friendships


April, 2011

Antidepressant Medication and Health Risk

Is Pepper Spraying A Child Ever Acceptable?

Government Shutdown and Stress

Mothers Who Kill

Space Aliens, Pod Travel, and Ineffective Managers

FAA Firings

"He got us out of Iceland!"


May, 2011

The Two Crucial Behavioral Skills

Those Frightening Autism Rates

"Our relationship with Pakistan is schizophrenic."

The Strauss-Kahn Affair and the Psychology of Entitlement


June, 2011

Sex, Mental Health, and Representative Weiner


July, 2011

Reflections on Murder


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