Will Baum, LCSW Psychotherapy

Category: Articles

  • Therapists on Couples Therapy

    Couples Therapy through the eyes of couples therapists in the New York Times. “For starters, there’s an ever-present risk of winning one spouse’s allegiance at the expense of the other spouse’s,” explains William J. Doherty, the University of Minnesota professor of family social science, in his groundbreaking 2002 article on the topic of awkward couples…

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  • Why Are Older People Happier?

    Science seeks answers.  A couple of possibilities: [S]tudies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moods — for instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down. Still other work finds that older adults learn to let go of loss and disappointment over unachieved…

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  • Mid-Life Crisis

    A history, from Scientific American: [Season’s of a Man’s Life author] Levinson felt that midlife crises were actually more common than not and appeared like clockwork between the ages of 40 to 45. For Levinson, such crises were characterized primarily by a stark, painful “de-illusionment” process stemming from the individual’s unavoidable comparison between his youthful…

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  • West Meets East

    Ronald Siegel wrote this long article about mindfulness and psychotherapy for the clinician-readers of Psychotherapy Networker.  Doesn’t mean you can’t give it a look.  A sample: [M]indfulness is the opposite of experiential avoidance…It allows us to feel the urge to have an alcohol drink arise and pass rather than heading to the bottle, to get on the…

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  • Decision Fatigue

    The NYT Magazine asks, Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? It’s different from ordinary physical fatigue — you’re not consciously aware of being tired — but you’re low on mental energy. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts… Echoing this TED…

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