Mind and Body - Page 61

November 27, 2015

MacKenzie Phillips: Victim or Victimizer?

Actress MacKenzie Phillips has accused her deceased father John Phillips, famous as the lead singer of The Mamas and the Papas, of having a "consensual" sexual relationship with her. She says it began when he raped her while she was semi-conscious and drugged at age 19 and continued for 10 years. She also says she hopes her revelations will help other survivors of incest.

November 27, 2015

A Killer in the Family

The recent murder cases of Annie Le at Yale, possibly by 24-year-old Yale lab technician Raymond Clark, and of Trisha Leffler by accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff obviously took the lives of two young women and shattered the lives of their families. I have treated parents of murdered children, as well as their siblings, and know that the surface scars may fade over time, but that the internal emotional bleeding-the complicated grief-never seems to end.

November 27, 2015

Models & Anorexia

With hip New Yorkers focused on Fashion Week, including the designers setting trends and the models bringing them to life, many experts are warning that the skinny women walking runways are not only at risk for eating disorders themselves, but could cause eating disorders in the young women who admire them in magazines and on television.

November 27, 2015

Face This: How Facebook Keeps Us Strangers

Elizabeth Bernstein, writing in the Wall Street Journal, astutely observes that the promise of Facebook and Twitter-to bring people closer by putting their lives online, with up-to-the-minute updates-can have the opposite effect. Many people, she writes, use "friending" and "tweeting" as a surface and synthetic way to talk about the fun outings they're planning or the fact that they just closed another sale at work.

November 27, 2015

Former Kidnap Victim Struggles With Stockholm Syndrome

Jaycee Duggard, now reunited with her family after being held captive for 18 years by convicted sexual offender Phillip Garrido, is reportedly struggling with symptoms consistent with Stockholm syndrome.

November 27, 2015

Now Starring Ryan Jenkins - As Himself

Ryan Jenkins was a famous reality TV star. He had appeared on the VH-1 series Megan Wants a Millionaire, winning the $1 million prize. He was selected for the third season of the VH-1 reality show "I Love Money," and reportedly won the $250,000 prize on that show, too (which apparently will not air).

November 27, 2015

Postpartum Depression-In Fathers

Postpartum depression is well-known in women who have given birth. As many as 15 percent of new mothers may experience all the symptoms of major depression in the months following a delivery. These symptoms can include low mood, low energy, tearfulness, altered sleep patterns, changes in appetite, inability to concentrate, low self-esteem. They can even include suicidal thinking or bizarre and false beliefs called delusions, which are a form of psychosis.

November 27, 2015

Peaceful Non-Cooperation With Socialism

Great leaders and great political movements have a lot in common with the finest therapists and best psychotherapy_

November 27, 2015

An Open Letter to Ryan O'Neal

Just when I thought Joe Jackson (Michael's "father") might be my poster boy for reprehensible parenting, you've come along to challenge him for the honor. According to media reports, you tried to pick up your own daughter Tatum at Farrah Fawcett's funeral, with the one-two punch, "You have a drink? You have a car?"

November 27, 2015

Barack Obama and the Psychology of Race

President Obama lost something invaluable last week when he weighed in on the arrest of his friend, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., saying the Cambridge police acted stupidly. He lost the presumption that he is colorblind and embraces all races and both genders equally.