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Ask the Psychologist!

  • My Girlfriend Thinks She Has Supernatural Powers
    Fri, 21 Nov 2008 Q: I have a girlfriend. She is 24, but as mature as a 40 year old — intelligent, wise, imaginative, romantic, sensitive, emotional. She values true feelings and truth in front of any human quality. But she says she has supernatural powers. She says she can: cook eggs in her hands, move objects with her [...]
  • OCD and Rituals Related to Sexual Activity
    Thu, 20 Nov 2008 Q: Sorry to bother you, but I hope you can give me an answer. I have been diagnosed with OCD and every time I have sex (not very often due to this problem), even if I have used a condom and the pill, I worry that I’m pregnant even from the next day. I then [...]
  • I Had My Son Admitted to a Mental Health Facility
    Thu, 20 Nov 2008 Q: A few days ago, I had my 16 year old son admitted to a mental health facility after he expressed to me that he had been having suicidal thoughts. My husband and I told him that we were proud of him for telling us and explained that we felt it was best to have [...]
  • How Can I Handle My Antisocial Daughter?
    Wed, 19 Nov 2008 Q: I have a 21 year old daughter who has almost every symptom of a personality disorder. She has been difficult to deal with her entire life to the point where I had to put her out of my home when she reached 18. She was verbally abusive not only to me and my husband [...]
  • Daughter’s Confused Feelings for Antisocial Parent
    Wed, 19 Nov 2008 Q: My daughter is 8 years old. By court order, neither she nor her brothers have been allowed any contact with their father for 5 months. I believe their father has some type of antisocial behavioral disorder, but I am not an expert. My daughter has been in counseling due to threatening to kill herself [...]
  • Son Wants to Change Custody to Live with Unstable Dad
    Tue, 18 Nov 2008 Q: I understand that teenagers in divorced families want an opportunity to live with the other parent as they get older, I really do. But what do I do when my ex is an unmedicated manic depressive? This kid and I have been taken through the ringer over the years. Most recently was when his [...]
  • How Do You Know When You’re Dating a Loser?
    Tue, 18 Nov 2008 Q: I am deeply disturbed and upset and need your responses to my question. I was dating a man for a period of five years, and we have been apart for the past 2 1/2 years now. He was dating someone when we separated and said that “he as returned to continue our relationship”. It [...]
  • Should I Tell My Therapist I’m Thinking About Giving Up on Life?
    Tue, 18 Nov 2008 Q: How do I tell my therapist that I am worried about passing thoughts of completely giving up on life, without her wanting me to go to the hospital? A: Thoughts of giving up on life, that you would be better dead, that you are a burden to your family, that you are a failure, that [...]
  • Four Year Old Taking Two Medications is Now Exhibiting Twitching
    Mon, 17 Nov 2008 Q: I have recently met a 4 ear old child who had ear infection hearing loss for over 2 years and is being given Adderall and Clonidine “to calm him down”. After 2 years of medication he is showing facial and hand twitching and is now being diagnosed as mildly retarded. I am so uncomfortable [...]
  • Should a 6th Grade Child Confront a Teacher Bully?
    Mon, 17 Nov 2008 Q: If a 12 year-old child in the 6th grade is being bullied by a teacher, is it feasible that the child should be empowered to deal with the problem in a non-threatening, non-challenging way rather than the teacher being taken to task? This is the advice I have been given by both the school [...]
  • Overcoming Panic Disorder
    Mon, 17 Nov 2008 Q: Can one fully overcome panic disorder? It seems to be a mixed answer, with different statistics and prognosis at every website or psychiatrist or psychologist or self help person I talk to. Some statistics say 7/10 get cured, some say 1-4/10 get cured, some say all can be cured. It’s very hard for me, [...]
  • I’m Extremely Attracted to My Psychiatrist
    Fri, 14 Nov 2008 Q: I’ve been seeing a psychiatrist every few weeks for a couple of months now, but only to regulate my ADHD medication and not for any sort of therapy. I am extremely attracted to him, and I think he is too, but I know there are ethical issues with this. Is there any way I [...]
  • 60 Year Old Family Member Hearing Divine Voices
    Thu, 13 Nov 2008 Q: I’d very much appreciate some feedback from you! I have a family member who is 60 and has always been in fairly good health and has never taken any medications. She is spiritual in nature and had recently completed reading Divine Guidance by Doreen Virtue and Neale Walsch’s books. For several months now, she has [...]
  • My Mom Seems Starved for Male Attention
    Thu, 13 Nov 2008 Q: My Mom seems to be starved for male attention. From what I see, my Dad gives her a lot of attention. They have been married for 31 years. My Mom has flirted with many of my past boyfriends. She would sit on their laps. She has even flashed a past boyfriend — she was [...]
  • Is Online Friend a Sexual Predator?
    Wed, 12 Nov 2008 Q: This question is about a friend who is a guy… We met over the net, and he seems to have gone through a bad childhood where he was sexually assaulted. Since then, this incident has not cleared out of his mind and he gets sexually aggravated very often to the point that he resorts [...]
  • My 14 Year Old Son’s Paranoia Comes and Goes
    Wed, 12 Nov 2008 Q: My 14 year old son has been diagnosed with OCD and GAD along with some paranoia. He actually goes a week or two without any paranoid episodes. Is that common? It seems that if he was paranoid, he’d always be paranoid. A: Great question! In clinical practice we encounter various types of paranoia and at [...]
  • Brother Being Abusive to Critically Ill Mother
    Wed, 12 Nov 2008 Q: My brother has been using drugs and been an alcoholic since he was a teenager. He started selling drugs and did this for a couple of years after high school to support his habit. Our mom told him to stop and promised him a good paying job. So he quit selling about 6 years [...]

From Our Blog

  • Beware the Covert-Aggressive Personality
    Wed, 19 Nov 2008The covert-aggressive personality employs a potent one-two punch: the covert-aggressive conceals aggressive intent to ensure you never really see what's coming; and he or she exploits your normal sensitivities, conscientiousness and other vulnerabilities to manipulate you into succumbing.
  • If Counselling Is Learning, What Kind of Learning?
    Tue, 18 Nov 2008Counselling may be a kind of learning process -- of learning to live differently. But what kind of learning is this? The kind of learning we do in school? Or some other kind?
  • Over 1000 Reader Comments and Questions on ‘Losers’ and Personality Disorders
    Sat, 15 Nov 2008To help our server deliver a snappier response time for the thousands of readers of our threads on Dr Carver’s ‘Loser’ article — the most recent of which has attracted over 350 new comments, we’re going to open this new thread and close the previous one. Combined with around 175 questions on personality disorders submitted to the ‘Ask the Psychologist’ service, we’ve now had over 1000 questions and comments from readers affected by this topic.
  • Understanding the Sadistic Personality
    Thu, 13 Nov 2008Sadists love to build themselves up at the expense of others. It makes them feel powerful to wield almost tyrannical influence over those they perceive as weaker or inferior. They derive pleasure from watching others cower, grovel, or struggle in one-down positions.

Book Reviews

  • Helping Adolescents at Risk: Prevention of Multiple Problem Behaviors
    Tue, 13 May 2008
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    This is a rigorous scholarly text dedicated to a very real social problem, and it does try to identify successful and unsuccessful community and state-wide attempts to prevent or reduce youth problems. It doesn't pretend to be a self-help book or parenting manual, or indeed a profound philosophical or political analysis.
  • Berg and Szabo on Brief Coaching
    Tue, 06 May 2008
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    This book is a good ready-to-go manual for the new or busy coach looking for new ideas or reinforcement of practice enthusiasm. Whether it lives up to its promise of providing lasting solutions is something that only time and longitudinal research studies can tell.
  • Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
    Thu, 01 May 2008
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    At a time when Complementary and Alternative Therapies have (again) been under fire from some university scientists for falsely claiming scientific status, and in an era of evidence-based psychotherapy, this book is a key text. It should have a place on all postgraduate counselling and psychotherapy courses, but I suspect it will not be so readily accommodated.

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