My recent post about genetics included the statistical fact that the illness of alcoholism and chemical dependency is highly genetically...

Psychiatrists and all in behavioral health have long studied the relationship between nature and nurture. Biology, your “raising”, your current...

I met two of my cousins this weekend at our grandparents family farm in West Texas. The new owners said...

Seasonal affective disorder is a specific condition describing symptoms arising in the dead of winter involving hypersomnia, hyperphagia and depressed...

The holidays can be stressful times for families with increased activities and emotional expectations. Often the days are action packed...

The natural biological bond that exists with your own children is not there with step children. The nurturing instinct is...

In blended families often the most tense relationship exists with your new spouse’s ex. Inheriting a hostile husband in law...

Freud first wrote of sexual inhibition over 100 years ago, believing many emotional problems arose from not allowing a reasonable...

As the high profile sex abuse cases play out in the media the overriding factor in all instances is the...

Newsweek just dedicated a cover article to Sex Addiction and, in light of numerous public scandals, this subject is getting...