Dec 31, 2021
Happy New Year!!! In the New Year if I told you that you could have anything you want, would that be a good thing? According to psychology probably not. What we find is that the more choices you have the harder it is to make a choice and feel good about it.
Dec 24, 2021
Trauma can be handed down from one generation to the next. How does this process occur and what are the consequences?
https://oie.duke.edu/inter-generational-trauma-6-ways-it-affects-families
Dec 17, 2021
Brett always says that we are members of a family which are members of a tribe which are members of a nation etc..The point is that we are all nested in a spider web of interconnected systems. In psychology, this is called ecological psychology. How this view affects our development is the conversation...
Dec 10, 2021
Worrying about what other people think is something we all know is not healthy and yet difficult to put aside.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/how-stop-caring-what-other-people-think-you/620670/
Dec 3, 2021
A lot of us (me included) will say "I don't really remember much before the age of 4 or 5". Some say they don't have many memories before the age of 7 or 8. Then there are those who say they have memories of being n their cribs as infants. What do biology and social development tell us about our earliest memories?