In my first video on motivation, I talked about pushing a ball up hill toward your goal(s). The ball gets heavier. The hill gets steeper. And you are require...

In the fantastic western biopic "Wyatt Earp," Wyatts best friend Doc Holiday approaches him after his girlfriend Mattie has attempted suicide. His approach t...

As early as 2008 I was floating balloons with my colleagues in the academic world, wondering if certain research questions might have traction. Back then I w...

About a year ago, Dr. Shawn T Smith posted this video to his Youtube channel: And as far as I can tell, there have been no takers. In that year, much has hap...

In the summer of 2011, I was a brand new licensed psychologist, deployed to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. I had been in the mental health field since long ...

There are a lot reasons and motivations for lying to your provider about your pain. None of them are good.

The developmental literature informs us that ambivalence is a milestone most children who are on a more or less normative trajectory should be able to master...

I'd like to see the end of the goofy, sictom, idiot dad in my lifetime.

If you have been in a situation that you are pretty sure changed you significantly, it may be trauma. Everyone's experience with such things does not look ex...

Back in 2014, I was the director of the Behavioral Science Consultation Team (BSCT) for Joint Task Force - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (JTF-GTMO). That position is...

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This week, David Cole uses his personal interaction with a severely mentally ill woman from his past to offer an interesting insight: https://www.takimag.co...

This weekend I had a couple of things that needed work and my oldest boy David was instructed to come outside and help. He's six, and what that means for me ...

Back in 2009. a law student at University of Montana wrote a law review paper entltled "Beyond Duluth: A Broad Spectrum of Treatment for a Broad Spectrum Dom...