November 27, 2015 Lindsay Lohan Hijacking the Courts Is it possible that Lindsay Lohan and her PR team intended for all of this to happen a second time?
November 27, 2015 Telling the Truth by Faking a Horrible Crime Bethany Storro admits she inflicted an acid attack on herself - and by doing so, she admits she is disfigured at some level deeper than the surface scars she inflicted upon herself. Maybe the mask she wore after burning herself was her way of telling all of us that she has hidden from the trauma all of her life.
November 27, 2015 How to Talk Yourself Out of Overeating (Or Quit Anything) Many patients of mine use food as a way to distract themselves from deeper, emotional conflicts rooted in earlier life experiences. Focusing on food provides them with a kind of shield from troubling thoughts and feelings like unresolved grief, low self-esteem and low mood. It is as if the unconscious parts of them that need soothing commandeer their conscious, better judgment and "procure" an excess of food, almost against their will.
November 27, 2015 A Staggeringly Important Antidepressant Researchers at Yale have discovered the utterly fascinating way that ketamine, a medication usually used as a general anesthetic in children, and a drug of abuse for some adults, fights depression. Their findings were published in the journal Science.
November 27, 2015 Tiger and Elin - and Us Elin and Tiger Woods are now divorced. That ends their marriage, but should open up windows of reflection on marriage itself.
November 27, 2015 Florida Attorney General Should Hospitalize Pedophiles Fifteen men in Florida have been arrested in a child sex sting. Twelve of the 15 men responded to ads placed by undercover detectives on Craigslist, which revolved around the theme of parents seeking "guidance" for their daughters, according to police.
November 27, 2015 Let's Sell Single Cigarettes, Not Just Packages Among the provisions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed into law by President Obama on June 22, 2009 is a reaffirmation of the 1996 prohibition against the sale of cigarettes in "packages containing fewer than 20 cigarettes."
November 27, 2015 Are We Ready for Triangle Marriage? Now that a Federal judge has struck down California's ban on gay marriage, Americans should prepare for the psychological fallout and for other landmark decisions that will drastically change our view of marriage and relationships.
November 27, 2015 Turning the Presidency Into Daytime TV With President Obama's interview having aired on The View, the Presidency is a little bit less majestic from this day forward, even if the popularity of this President should temporarily rise a bit.
November 27, 2015 Billboards Could Trigger Suicide in Depressed Patients Final Exit Network, an organization that advocates euthanasia, has begun posting stark, black and yellow billboards along highways that state, "My life. My death. My choice." The group apparently wants to stimulate discussion about physician-assisted suicide and other forms of euthanasia.
