Dr. Jordan
With all the current difficulty figuring out who is and is not responsible for the sexual abuse of minors in our society, we have not been paying enough attention to the sufferring of the children and adolescents who have had to endure the experience of sexual trauma. First and foremost, let’s be clear, sexual trauma…
As a clinical psychologist and psychological disability consultant in New York City over the past 36 years, I’ve learned that a disappointing love life is often the unacknowledged source of emotional illness and stress-related physical illness, resulting in diminished job performance and recurrent episodes of short-term disability. What is a disappointing love life? A love…
In this 21st century, truth is under attack. It is getting progressively harder and harder for us human beings to discern what is true from what is false. When we are no longer able to do so, our ability to live in relation to reality will have been sacrificed. Lies, pretense, and fabrication have become…
You’ve heard of the old research finding that married men live longer than single or divorced men. Of course, that statistic depends upon the quality of their marriages. Nevertheless, I’m going to add my own controversial prediction, drawn from years of clinical experience: if your love life is healthy, single or married, man or woman,…
I have decided to rewrite this post a couple of times because of what I’ve learned about this topic from the commentary and reactions sent to me over the many months since I’ve posted it. This post is a lot different from the others I have written on this blog. One important difference is the…
If you love a married woman and you’re in a love relationship with her, read this post. You are engaged in what is commonly thought of as a ‘triangle.’ Triangles are rough on the heart. Fundamentally, they are unstable, like three legs on a table. Something always goes wrong, or at least it should, because…
In this article, I am going to try to dispassionately examine the use of AI as a psychotherapist for individuals suffering from mental illness. Although the reader may intuit from the title of this post that I am against this “intrusion” of technology into the realm of interpersonal healing. Like the experience of being in…
Emotional intimacy is the healthiest form of human relationship. Interpersonal health and healing are significant in an emotionally intimate relationship. When an interpersonal relationship is not emotionally intimate it is driven by other motivations beyond love and closeness. Getting people to do things is a common source of interpersonal relationship especially when the objectives are…
Most people don’t consider the fact that they have a relationship with themselves. This oversight is very costly psychologically, because the relationship we have with ourselves forms the unconscious foundation of just about everything else in our psychological and interpersonal lives. To say the least, the relationship you have with yourself is well worth bringing…
It is obvious to most people that we have begun what some people refer to as the “AI Revolution.” A time in history when the machine, as a consequence of technological evolution, has become capable of accurately mimicking human beings. AI is able to interact with its user as though it is another human being.…