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, …
Anxiety What If . . . Every Moment You Experienced Today, You Had to Do Over Again? Dateline: Dallas, Texas, 9 p.m. I’m standing in front of the yummy shrimp display at Eatzi’s gourmet take-takeout, my over-educated and under-used brain caught in a dilemma. Should I sacrifice and buy only four …