by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing, History of Emotional Conditioning
We train our dogs to sit, fetch, catch Frisbees and do other tricks. Any pet dog we raise understands our voice and hand gestures. When we head to the fridge or our dog’s food bin at a certain time of day, our dog is conditioned to anticipate being fed. His behavior...
by Dr. Adams | How To Understand Yourself
The songwriter Paul Simon in 1973 sang, “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.” The same object or event means different things to different people at different times and under different circumstances. We know many combatants return from warfare experiences with...
by Dr. Adams | Emotional Illness
Here is an article of mine that was published on http://www.kevinmd.com: Does psychiatry worsen mental illness stigma? When a person gets depressed over their divorce, they are said to have a mental illness. When a person becomes psychotic from a manic episode due to...
by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing, How To Understand Yourself
Currently in vogue is a type of therapy geared toward emotional regulation. Such treatment aims for management of human emotions. It has come about because of the idea that people suffer with emotional dyscontrol. Children are instructed to hit a pillow when angry or...
by Dr. Adams | Relationships
Is every episode of disagreement with your significant other a déjà vu for you? Are you visiting the same arguments, territory and discussions again and again? Does nothing change from the first time you had conflict? Why is this and what does it mean for...
