Couples Counseling

If you want to succeed in dating you need to be able to make conscious, informed decisions about who you’re willing to go out with, get to know, and possibly become emotionally and physically involved with. You want to be open to different types of people, yes; but it’s crucial to have a clear sense…

New York is a difficult place for dating, even with the active social lives that most of my patients lead. Traditional social-support systems that used to bring people together are waning. Relocations are frequent. Work committments now go well beyond the almost-forgotten nine-to-five schedule. To expand their dating opportunities, 40 percent of the 100 million…

Couples enter into marriage full of hope. They may be aware that problems will inevitably arise, but they usually feel confident they’ll be able to keep their relationships on track. There’s reason to be optimistic. Decades of research into the dynamics of relationships have finally established solid principles for helping marriages work – as opposed…

Do girls play with dolls and boys play with trucks merely because society imposes such behavior? Or is it genetics at work? Experiments by psychologist Gerianne Alexander of Texas A&M put nature before nurture. Dr. Alexander presented 44 young male vervets and 44 young female vervets with a range of playthings including cars, balls, dolls,…