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11/14/2025

Can Reading fiction actually make you happier?

Literary fiction has been shown to increase empathy, reduce stress, and improve well-being. Literary fiction, in contrast with popular and nonfiction, offers unique benefits.

10/28/2025

Healing Trauma Through Art! Check out my latest Psychology Today piece!

Engaging in artistic creation and passively enjoying art both provide mental health benefits for trauma survivors.

05/16/2025

Pleased to learn my latest Psychology Today piece was promoted to Essential Reads. Please read and share!

Feeling unworthy can hamper your ability to achieve your goals and aspirations. Low self-esteem can lead you to underestimate what is possible. Small efforts over time can help.

03/31/2025

San Diego Press Club’s Panel Hopes to Bridge Political Divide
The San Diego Press Club will present “Bridging Divides and Staying Sane: Strategies for Fruitful Political Interactions and Maintaining Equilibrium,” an in-person panel discussion, from 7 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 8, at San Diego City College. The event is open to the public. Admission is free for Press Club members and a $10 donation is requested for nonmembers.
A statement said the panel will discuss when journalists need strategies to communicate effectively with all sides of the political divide and stay sane.
Panelists will include: Gina Simmons Schneider, an author and licensed psychotherapist with 25 years of experience specializing in helping people manage emotions and conflicts; Brady Young with the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego and lead event organizer at Braver Angels, a nonprofit that organizes online workshops, debates and conversations about political issues; and Albert Fulcher, longtime managing editor, editor, freelance writer and photographer.
To register for the panel discussion, send an email to admin@sdpressclub.org.
A post-panel reception will be held at the Punch Bowl Social, 1485 E St., San Diego.

11/17/2024

We can bounce back from the cruel coarsening of our culture.

Human cruelty is everywhere and timeless. The Dark Tetrad traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sa**sm, along with social contagion, increase abuse and cruelty.

10/11/2024

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Hurricane Milton made landfall yesterday evening as a Category 3 storm just south of Sarasota, Florida.

10/08/2024

"The antisocial, Winnicott observes, come in three main psychological varieties: the overt kind, who “show their lack of sense of society by developing an antisocial tendency”; those “reacting to inner insecurity by the alternative tendency — identification with authority,” whom he calls “hidden antisocials”; and “indeterminates who would be drawn by weakness or fear into association with [the antisocials].” Of these, he highlights the hidden antisocials as the most dangerous, for their motives are most unconscious. (In every region of life, down to our most intimate relationships, the most unsafe people are those most lacking in self-awareness, most governed by unconscious complexes.)"

In the late morning of the first day of August in 2023, exactly twenty summers after I arrived in Philadelphia as a lone teenager from a country thirteen centuries America’s senior, I experie…