Recently I ran across a YouTube video by a sleep expert who suggested a little exercise that might be helpful for middle-of-the-night wakers. He suggested remaining relaxed and randomly picking letters from the alphabet then doing a little word association thinking of words that begin with the chosen letter. One night I gave this a try and noticed that in my relaxed state I tended to personalize a fair amount of the words. 'C,' for example lead to: Cape Cod, Catholic, Caribbean, Candy Cane...

Over 20 years ago the respected psychologist and author Patrick Carnes coined the term, 'trauma bonding.' He defined his concept...

A Psychiatrist Reflects on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) A friend who I love very much has an annoying trait. She is a major surfer of social media and will periodically approach me during moments when I’m resting with questions about things on the Web that are trending. One afternoon while sitting on my porch, relaxed with thoughts far from work, she walked by and called out, “Hey Doc, you’re supposed to know about these things—is there anything to the notion of E.F.T.—Emotionally...