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Category: Psychologically Speaking
Understanding the psychology of scams: how we fall victim and how to recognize scams and protect ourselves
Ponzi schemes and Bitcoin scammers aside, we have been victimized by scammers since before recorded […]
Resilience: uncovering your inner strength through defeat
A recent NY Times opinion piece by Erik Vance had me thinking about how some […]
Anxiety is endemic
COVID has just had a name change from pandemic to endemic. According to Webster’s online […]
Talking to yourself
As a forensic, I ask the people I interview about how they have reached a […]
We are having a heat wave, a less than wonderful heat wave…
It was 95 degrees on Wednesday when I began to write this column, and the […]
Déjà vu: Seeing and believing you have been there before
As a forensic it is not uncommon for persons I interview to talk about hallucinations […]
Happiness revisited – World Happiness Report 2024
As some of you may have surmised by now, I have a longstanding interest in […]
The generational divide: what’s up with the younger generation?
Our society is a tapestry of social, geopolitical, economic and unexpected global trauma. Every 15 […]
The difference between ADHD and everyday distractibility
As a forensic psychologist and clinician, I am routinely challenged by individuals who want to […]