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Structures of Unhappiness

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2024-02-27T21:08:17+00:00February 27th, 2024|Categories: Burnout, Career, Happiness, Psych Matters|Tags: cognitive diffusion, happiness, Mindfulness and Meditation|

Think of a time during which you felt unhappy for a sustained period of time, be it a day, week, [...]

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Two Chairs to a Better Life

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2023-02-17T21:43:07+00:00February 17th, 2023|Categories: Health, Psych Matters|Tags: fritz perls, gestalt therapy, intrapersonal honesty, self-acceptance, two chairs technique|

Have you ever had a friend or family member confide very sensitive information to you? As clinicians we have patients [...]

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Boredom 2022

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2025-06-03T16:02:53+00:00December 12th, 2022|Categories: Health, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: boredom, ennui, tedium|

Boredom is a common aspect of human life. Varied and even contradictory understandings about it abound. As Jon Kabat-Zinn said, [...]

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When the Lifeworld Diminishes

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-11-18T23:20:23+00:00September 23rd, 2022|Categories: Career, Health, Psych Matters, Success|Tags: being in the world, COVID-19, lifeworld, social distancing, social isolation|

In today’s post I discuss the concept of the lifeworld and how it is relevant to psychiatric understanding and care. [...]

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Advice for a 78-Year-Old Psychiatrist

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-11-18T19:37:14+00:00May 13th, 2022|Categories: Health, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: dementia, ego integrity versus despair, eudaimonia, facing cognitive decline, isolation, the good life|

Request for Advice “Jack, I’m writing because I ran across one of your LifeBriefs from some time back. In it [...]

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How to Understand and Treat Worry

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-03-25T03:18:50+00:00March 23rd, 2022|Categories: Health, Psych Matters|Tags: acceptance and commitment therapy, anxiety, CBT, cognitive biases, mindfulness-based therapies, ruminations, threat assessments, worry|

I’ll start with my take-home message: chronic worriers do not want to stop worrying. Instead, they want to stop feeling [...]

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Managing Patients’ Horizons of Concern

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-03-07T19:47:09+00:00March 7th, 2022|Categories: All, Health, Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: horizon of concern, managing despair, managing worry, partial hospital programs|

Sorry for the obscure title of this essay. Once I explain, I hope you’ll agree that what I’m referring to [...]

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Worry. Why it is So Compelling and So Harmful

By Dr. Jack Krasuski|2022-05-13T20:35:42+00:00March 3rd, 2022|Categories: Patient Stories, Psych Matters|Tags: acceptance and commitment therapy, anxiety, CBT, Fear of Chaos, Fear of Death, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, worry ruminations|

We have evolved to survive. One survival strategy that has been selected is based on our capacity to anticipate the [...]

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