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Burnt-out on stress management? It's time to change the organization.

Some years ago, I received a call from an organization that wanted me to conduct a stress-management workshop. I had done this many times, but I found myself hesitating. "Perhaps I could speak to your...

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Psychological Health Care: A prescription for health care cost savings

It has long been recognized that emotional and psychological factors can affect one's health in a variety of ways. What is also known, but not well appreciated is that health plans can actually reduce...

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Workplace stress: Does anyone hear the workers screaming in their cubicles?...

I don't actually know the answer to this question. As far as I know, no one can really say to what extent employers are, as a rule, effective and proactive in responding to the complaints of their...

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When Leadership Fails: a short story about administrative incompetence

This story is a companion piece to three of my other posts:Is your boss paying attention to you?Burnt-out on stress management? It's time to change the organization.Workplace stress: Does anyone hear...

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Will Forensic Psychologists be involved in the Phillip Garrido case?

A reporter called me the other day to ask a hypothetical question about the parolee, who along with his wife Nancy, stands accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting Jaycee Lee Dugard.   Our...

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The Psychology of Netflix

Netflix has just awarded a $1 million prize to an international, seven member team of engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists for solving "the Napolean Dynamite problem." You know how Netflix...

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Psychologists Reject Science? ... Oh My!

The psychotherapy community is all atwitter about an article (1) recently published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, an article that purports to describe "psychology's failure to...

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I have been a psychologist for more than 25 years

I have been working in the field of psychology since 1976, starting at the Master's level.In 1982, I completed my doctorate degree at the Berkeley campus of the California School of Professional...

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Stress and Depression reduce worker productivity ... new study, old news.

I saw it in the paper the other day,  and then it came into my email box from a few different sources.There's a new study out demonstrating that when workers are depressed,  or when they are stressed...

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Anti-Depressant medication may not be an effective treatment for mild or...

Almost 7% of the population will suffer from clinical depression in any given year.  For those who seek treatment,  the most common treatment involves a course of anti-depressant medications,...

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Those people are like this, these people are like that ... our tendency to...

It's a real common tendency,  describing certain people as being a certain way.  We all do it.  We all "ascribe traits" to others.Sometimes it's a matter of convenience.  Sometimes it's a matter of...

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Psychology in the Emergency Room: psychotherapy reduces return visits

The "medical cost offset effect" is well known and has long been documented.  In brief:  when emotionally distressed medical patients receive therapy,  they tend to reduce their utilization of all...

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On camera: Dr. Mattiuzzi speaks about the Phillip Garrido case and the victim...

Recorded on February 11th,  2010.  KXTV Channel 10 News in Sacramento.Comments about recent case developments and the Stockholm Syndrome,  and comment about Patty Hearst.  The raw video:And the story...

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Clues to personality found in Austin plane crash pilot's diatribe

Before crashing his airplane into an IRS building in Austin Texas,  53 year old software engineer Joseph Andrew Stack posted a lengthy note online.  It begins:  "If you're reading this" -  thereby...

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When Leadership Fails

About twenty years ago at Sacramento State (California State University,  Sacramento:  CSUS),  the campus administration learned that an engineering professor had been harassing a recent graduate in a...

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This blog is about everyday psychology

I am a professional psychologist in independent practice.  Most of my work is in the criminal justice system.  I am trained as a clinical psychologist,  not just as a psychotherapist.   Before I...

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The thin line between sanity and the safety net

Driving to the post office today, I noticed that one of our neighborhood schizophrenics was out on the sidewalk, but not in her usual spot. A very slight and petite woman, her clothing is usually...

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The campus safety threat they don't tell you about

Colleges and Universities are required by law (the Clery Act) to disclose campus security policies and crime statistics. This information may provide parents with some measure of comfort when sending...

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Why are we so fascinated with murder?

The public is endlessly fascinated with murder.  When it’s on the news,  we may recoil in shock and horror,  but often and in other media,  homicide is a source of entertainment.   We wonder why people...

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The DSM: more like the Boy Scout Handbook than the Bible

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is being revised.  Often described as the psychiatric bible,  there are plans for the DSM to be released in a 5th Edition.  It is a work in progress.Naturally,...

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