People literally cease to exist without relationships. Yes, literally, the sense of self dissolves without relationships with others, and by contrast, people are created and sustained within their social situations. Sometimes relationships are the primary reason a person enters [...]
Stress is not always bad for us. Stress is good for us when it is at a level we can manage. Stress is good for us when we understand its source. Most importantly, stress is good for us when it motivates us to solve some important problem in our lives. Often, stress is a great way [...]
Life is a process of constant change, but some transitions are bigger than others. Sometimes, these major life transitions can throw us out of balance to the point where we lose access to some important aspects of our experience, we lose our sense of grounding and routines, or we disrupt our [...]
I believe strongly that a cornerstone of my responsibility as a mental health professional is to remember that the history of my profession was really bad in the ways that we added to the stigma and suffering of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, and the remaining tapestry of sexual [...]
I don’t usually see people specifically for grief. Grief is one of those universal life experiences that is supposed to awful, and from which a person never really recovers. When we lose people we love, the world is permanently changed. This is the price we pay as humans for the [...]
Co-parenting is a special case within the broader category of parenting and family therapy. Two situations are most common to co-parenting difficulties: (1) where separated parents get help maintaining coordination and consistency in their parenting strategies without being in romantic [...]
With approximately half of marriages ending in divorce, and perhaps as many as half of those who staying together being less than fully satisfied, one could easily say that it is completely normal for marriages to need some professional help from time to time. Unfortunately, most couples who [...]
I can’t think of any relationship that is more difficult or complicated than being a parent; I really don’t think it’s even close. Making matters even more complicated, it’s very hard to find good information or support that doesn’t come with some level of [...]
David Pincus, Ph.D.