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Psychologist at a university counseling center. Thinking and writing about college mental health, campus culture, burnout, bureaucracy, and the colorful emotional life of higher ed.
Yes, many people are not failing at grief; they are simply grieving. Therapy can witness that, but it can’t always make it easier. The problem is that we spent decades telling people to come to therapy. We can’t now resent them for taking us seriously.
“When every struggle is routed toward a professional, we risk mistaking mental health issues that require treatment for problems of isolation or circumstance,” Harvey Lieberman writes.
Opinion | Maybe You Don’t Need Therapy
Many patients misunderstand what therapy reliably provides.
nyti.ms
July 7, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Yes, many people are not failing at grief; they are simply grieving. Therapy can witness that, but it can’t always make it easier. The problem is that we spent decades telling people to come to therapy. We can’t now resent them for taking us seriously.
Part of the reason why I love my UCC job is because I get to connect, in the office, with my team. But UCC work doesn’t always provide the schedule flexibility many practitioners want or need. Still, it’s the expectation of loneliness and isolation in private practice work that terrifies me.
It’s possible to love your remote work and stay connected as well, avoiding disconnection or depression. Here's how.
Remote Work Can Increase Loneliness. Here’s How To Stay Connected
Remote and hybrid work are here to stay, but they can damage loneliness and disconnection. Here's how to get the best of both with work that is flexible and connected.
www.forbes.com
June 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Part of the reason why I love my UCC job is because I get to connect, in the office, with my team. But UCC work doesn’t always provide the schedule flexibility many practitioners want or need. Still, it’s the expectation of loneliness and isolation in private practice work that terrifies me.
In an attempt to mitigate staff turnover at our UCC, we’ve been allowed to work from home 2 days a week. But this arrangement is increasingly fragile, and seems to be on our VPSA’s radar. And according to these researchers, It’s a “signature strategy of leaders who exhibit narcissistic qualities.”
Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
www.nytimes.com
June 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
In an attempt to mitigate staff turnover at our UCC, we’ve been allowed to work from home 2 days a week. But this arrangement is increasingly fragile, and seems to be on our VPSA’s radar. And according to these researchers, It’s a “signature strategy of leaders who exhibit narcissistic qualities.”
Therapists who talk with congruent hand gestures, rejoice!
#BeyondTheLab #cogpsyc #AcademicSky🧪 JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab.
Free to read: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001429
#Psychology #Perception #Emotion #BodyLanguage
Free to read: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001429
#Psychology #Perception #Emotion #BodyLanguage
June 22, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Therapists who talk with congruent hand gestures, rejoice!
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These songs deal with psychotherapy, psychiatry, and the language (vaguely in places) of the kind in pop songs. wp.me/pzXeC-lr5
Songs about psychiatry
Psychobabble is the bane of prose because its prescriptive note cuts the oxygen from ambiguity. What purports to be self-evident looks like imposition. Yet songs about psychoanalysts, psychiatrists…
wp.me
June 20, 2026 at 12:46 AM
These songs deal with psychotherapy, psychiatry, and the language (vaguely in places) of the kind in pop songs. wp.me/pzXeC-lr5
As an insecure writer/therapist, there is a strange mercy in working at a university counseling center: my clients are often intelligent, but they are usually not yet the kind of brilliant adult novelists whose accomplishments would make me feel exposed.
“I know all sorts of brilliant people who are bad writers; it must be possible for a brilliant therapist to be such a person, and yet I felt that if your prose were horrendous it would make it impossible for me to trust you.” New fiction by Ben Lerner. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HQbBcJ
“The Readers,” by Ben Lerner
It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my protagonists resemble me, how could I know you weren’t mixing us up?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
June 22, 2026 at 4:59 PM
As an insecure writer/therapist, there is a strange mercy in working at a university counseling center: my clients are often intelligent, but they are usually not yet the kind of brilliant adult novelists whose accomplishments would make me feel exposed.