Dr. Paula Bloom
Dr. Bloom, is a practicing clinical psychologist, speaker, and frequent contributor to CNN. Through her training and work on suicide hotlines, community mental health centers, and medical and psychiatric units, Dr. Bloom quickly realized that she knew far more about mental illness than mental health. Her focus has now shifted to helping individuals struggling with psychiatric conditions such as anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder to go beyond their diagnosis and find a greater sense of productivity, purpose, and meaning in their lives. Dr. Bloom...
Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D.
Dr. LeDoux is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, University Professor, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety, and the Director of the Emotional Brain Institute. He grew up in rural Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University. He received a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 1987. Dr. LeDoux’s work focuses on the neural basis of emotions, especially fear and anxiety. Central to emotional processing is the amygdala, a brain area that he...
What can you do to lower your kids’ future therapy bills?
“You’re right, I’m the worst mom ever, this will give you another thing to tell your future therapist,” you say to your daughter. While kidding – at least halfway – the modern parent is beginning to see therapy in their child’s future as inevitable, a necessary part of being a mentally healthy adult.
Jerome Kagan Ph.D.
Dr. Kagan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology. He has studied children and their development for over 45 years. Some of his more significant discoveries include: (1) a child’s personality in the first 4 to 5 years of life only weakly predicts his personality as an adult, (2) the universal appearance of a sense of self and of right and wrong during the second year, (3) the development of morality, and (4) the influence of a child's temperamental biases on personality development. He has...
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Roz Chast
Roz Chast has been a cartoonist for the New Yorker since 1978. Her work has also appeared in many other publications, including Scientific American, Redbook, and the Harvard Business Review. Her latest collection is Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006. In 2007 she illustrated The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!, the best-selling children's book written by Steve Martin.
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to the two most anxious people on the planet, and to this day, anxiety is her default mode.
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