Texting Across Generations

“My friends understand me, but my mom and I fight because we miscommunicate when we text.” Recently, in a counseling session, my client and her daughter were discussing relationship conflicts that seem to be triggered by texting each other. Eventually, the teenage...

The More I Learn the Less I Know

The more I learn about psychology  — whether theories of development and cognition, brain function, types of therapy and range of diagnoses, or the myriad psychotropic medications and their effect on the brain — the less I think we, as psychologists, really know. The...

Creative Living, Ageless Living

Recently, I was sitting by a pool with a friend. We were discussing health and aging. He made the comment, “Aging is a disease,” which struck me as fatalistic. “No, it’s reality,” he said. “At about 26 years of age, our cells stop...