Category: Reading
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Happily Married
Read more: Happily MarriedDavid Brooks surveys the happiness literature in an op-ed, The Sandra Bullock Trade. If the relationship between money and well-being is complicated, the correspondence between personal relationships and happiness is not. The daily activities most associated with happiness are sex, socializing after work and having dinner with others. The daily activity most injurious to happiness…
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When Your Partner is a Sex Addict
Read more: When Your Partner is a Sex AddictA series of Q&A’s about sex addiction is underway at the NYT–therapists answering reader mail on the topic. Lively, diagnosis-doubting commenters by the dozen follow.
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Self-Defeating Behavior
Read more: Self-Defeating BehaviorPsychiatrist Richard Friedman, MD, writing about on self-defeating behavior in the NYT, confronts a client with a long pattern of not-so-coincidental-seeming disappointments: “Do you ever wonder why so many disappointing things happen to you?” I asked. “Is it just chance, or might you have something to do with it?” His reply was a resentful question:…
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The Origins of Marriage Counseling
Read more: The Origins of Marriage CounselingThe origins of marriage counseling and other dirty laundry are aired in this New Yorker review of Rebecca L. Davis’ new book, More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss. Enjoy.
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What is TMS?
Read more: What is TMS?Psychologist Dr. Eric Sherman talks about treating chronic pain with talk therapy at Where the Client Is: I have received photos from former patients in which they are break dancing, sky diving, or performing yoga contortions worthy of Cirque du Soleil. All of them had been advised to undergo surgery to correct disc herniations, the…