DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

Psychology has a past which would never meet current standards of behavior. Four eminent, widely quoted and revered members of the...

Do you regularly check your EOB (Explanation of Benefits) charges on Medicare/Medicaid or other insurance billings? Why should you...

Suicide is a serious issue, problem, dilemma—you pick the word. Whichever one you use it all means that suicide is seen, by too many, as...

Why do you write? Have you ever thought about it? I mean really, really thought about it. Do you write because you want to be famous or...

The wheels of justice, like the mills of the gods, apparently, grind exceedingly slowly, but they do a fine job, unless a wrench is...

Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fair

Scores of students flow into the higher education system each year, a river of neophytes, the majority of them with their eyes wide and...

Mentoring, like teaching, is an honorable activity and many of us are called to one or both because we believe we can help, and we can...

Writers try, by any means possible, to promote their books or articles or whatever they produce. Being a psychologist and self-help book...

Artificial intelligence (AI for the uninitiated), we’re told, will take our jobs, run our homes and our lives and make almost virtual...

What do you want from you life? Can you do many things for yourself or do you need a therapist and, if a therapist, how do you decide...

Grandmothers are, for the most part in my experience, nice ladies. Ok, some of them aren't so nice and I know of at least one who refuses...

Bunny is a squirrel with most of her tail missing and with a somewhat disabled rear paw. She eagerly hops over when I offer walnuts or...

When Bunny is chased, as one squirrel delights in doing, she scampers up a tree and hangs upside down, watching. See if you can find her...

Bunny loves walnuts and here's a close-up of her chomping away. What a great little squirrel she is.

Why should you read "Sleep, Insomnia, Stress: What you don't know can hurt you?" Because it's more important to your physical and mental...

Everyone has a story or many stories in them and each story can engage, emotionally move us or be disturbingly boring. The difference in...

A bluejay spies a peanut

Britney Spears is, unquestionably, a super star who has worked hard to attain the type of stardom she currently enjoys, but there's a fly...

A female rabbit was on the wrong end of an argument, obviously, and she has a stub of a tail to show for it. We call her Bunny because...