A Guide To Anger And Conflict Resolution
Welcome to From Insults to Respect. Recently I came upon an article in the October 2019 edition of the American Psychologist about using timeouts with children from 2 to 8 years of age. As a grandfather, it caught my attention. According to the authors, Mark R. Dadds and Lucy A. Tully, the use of this technique is quite controversial. Well, it just so happens I love dealing with controversial…
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Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Today’s topic involves life and death issues. When some people become concerned about their emotions, moods, behavior, or the ups and downs of life, they often seek professional mental health services. If they go to someone in the medical profession, they typically find that after a visit of somewhere between ten minutes to an hour they have been labeled as having…
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Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Last year I published a post titled “Are Antipsychotics Beneficial?” (see HERE). Although I had personally reviewed the research, I relied on my method of presenting this information to readers by summarizing a free PDF written by the highly regarded science writer, Robert Whitaker, titled, “The Case Against Antipsychotics: A Review of Their Long-term Effects.” By clicking on the blue…
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Welcome to From Insults To Respect. As I write this, it is the time of year that for most Americans the fresh new school year is well on its way. It is also the time when we begin to see some teachers becoming frustrated with some of their new students because they won’t sit quietly during lessons, or their attention too frequently wanders. And so, parents…
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Welcome to From Insults To Respect. I’m Dr. Jeffrey Rubin. Typically, here on this blog I aim to write posts that suggest how we might deal with various intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts in a manner that will enhance the respect that we have for ourselves, and others have for us. But today we will look at a set of circumstances that is a bit more complicated….
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Welcome to From Insults to Respect. What can we to do to foster peaceful solutions to conflicts in our communities? Well, currently, when young folks first begin to display a pattern of serious violence to themselves or others, they are typically placed together to provide some intervention in a group, such as a special education class or a correctional facility. Unfortunately, this often worsens these…
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Welcome to From Insults to Respect. From time to time I have written about the growing lack of respect for the current manner in which people seeking to obtain mental health services are treated. Particularly upsetting to many is the requirement that they be labeled as having a mental disorder. This labeling process relies on descriptions provided in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth edition…
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Welcome to From Insults to Respect. Today we’ll be taking an interesting look at the grief process. When we experience a major loss, such as the death of a loved one, financial ruin, losses from a natural disaster, or learning of a serious personal medical illness, our emotions can become pretty intense. Common reactions are waves of deep sadness, rumination about the loss, sleep difficulties,…
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Welcome to from Insults to Respect. Today we seek to answer the question, If we are experiencing sadness does that mean that we are bad? We’ll begin with a little parable to see what it might reveal. Then we’ll look at the real life example of Laura, a young woman who came to think there was something wrong with her because of her sadness. The…
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Welcome to From Insults to Respect. Today we continue our exploration of famous people who, despite experiencing depression, managed to achieve an outstanding level of respect. In the recent past, the experiences of Joni Mitchell (see HERE), U.S. Grant (see HERE), Leo Tolstoy (see HERE), and Abraham Lincoln (see HERE) led us along their personal journey. We now turn to the master of all psychologists, William James, to…
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