I have discovered that I can clip my dogs myself. Thus, I will be adding this service to my practice. Large dogs: $1,000,000.99; Small dogs: $1,000,000.98. This may seem high, but it works out to just over $7 an hour and doesn’t count the Band-Aids and Hazard Pay.
Impractical Psychology On this New Year’s my mind goes back to Ellen, the thirty-three-year old mother with breast cancer who, after she’d been informed that she had from twenty-four to forty-eight of consciousness left, called me for help. Me? What did I know? I was a twenty-five-year psychologist barely out …
Practical Psychology: What Works and What’s Nuts Have you ever been in a relationship in which you felt ‘who you are’ was slip-slipping away? Maybe you stopped seeing your friends or family as often. Or you changed the way you dressed or the way you ordered from a menu. Not …
Practical Psychology: What Works and What’s Nuts . . . For any change effort to make a difference in a relationship or experience, we must switch attention away from what other people are thinking and doing and direct attention toward thinking about and better understanding our own emotions and behavior. …
Practical Psychology: What Works and What’s Nuts …I have fired only one client. Mrs. X. Mrs. X, a fifty-one-year-old divorcee, came to see me because she’d heard that I work from a theory of family systems and she had a family problem. Or, at least her daughter and her husband …
“I only have 24 hours to be concious, Dr. DeShong. How can I stop crying?” The Past is . . . History. The Future is . . . Mystery. The Present Moment is . . . a Gift. I’d been in practice without supervision for exactly two weeks when I …
Can a Good Psychologist Take Away the Guilt? . . . The Case of the Guilty Boss . . . There are a lot of notions out there about what happens in a session with a psychologist. The most common stereotype is that a client sits down with a psychologist, …
