“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
The interface time. Back a long, long time ago, human beings—or what passed for human beings back then—communicated like many other animals with gestures and calls of one sort or another. It is important for animals that live in packs to be able to communicate with...
A caution against being too hopeful. It is natural in the face of a calamity to set out to prevent it happening again. “Do something,” people will demand. But sometimes it is not clear exactly what can or should be done. If nothing useful can be done, there is...
Why boasting is unpleasant I had a memorable experience a number of years ago. I ran into an acquaintance of mine who was standing on a street corner waiting for a red light to change. I had not seen him since I had graduated college ten years before. “Hey, Walter,” I...
A modest proposal. A controversy has grown up recently about the personal possession of atomic weapons: some people have proposed the ban of these weapons on the grounds that they are dangerous. “Nobody needs their own atom bomb,” says Daryll Jones, who is a New York...
The benefits of asking“Ask, and ye shall receive.”If only it were that simple. I guess it is the natural condition to want things. Inevitably, wanting leads to disappointment, and, as the story goes, to unhappiness . The Buddha claimed that all the pain of life came...
If I had all the time in the world, or very little, I would probably struggle to do all these things. Being a psychiatrist has informed my novels, if for no other reason that many characters in the books are psychiatrists. I don’t think writing books has helped me to...