Psychology Chat ⁽⁸⁵⁾

A few days ago, a cancer patient's family member told me that his father, in the last twenty-plus days of his life, chose to give up treatment, neither eating nor drinking. The old man used this resolute way to end the suffering of his long-besetting…

I deal with a crowd of pessimists—cancer patients, depression patients, Buddhist believers. Yet I am still so optimistic, haha! Thank heaven for letting me use my smile to encourage them! Long ago, my elder brother evaluated me this way: a blind optimist. My elder brother…

Dr. Charles V. Ford, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, once wrote a book titled Lies! Lies! Lies! The Psychology of Deceit. Its Chinese translation is Lying: Everything You Don't Know (translated…

Recently some sociologists have found that the upper limit of the number of people a person should associate with over a lifetime is around 150. More associations than that wear out body and mind, directly affecting physical and mental health. For many of us, 150…

Dr. Chou Chih-chien of Taiwan is an authority on psychotherapy; he founded the narrative therapy model of psychotherapy and advocates that modern people embrace their imperfect selves. The following passage is from an article by Dr. Chou: "Every person's heart is full of suffering. Those…