The importance of pleasure. The more I see clients, the more evident it has become that the inability to experience pleasure--known as anhedonia--lies at the root of anxiety, stress, depression, and sexual problems. Let's get busy with cultivating healthy...
I believe that having a deeper understanding of our wired-in emotional operating systems frees us to be better regulators of them. As I have heard it said, we always know what's on our mind, but we don't always know what mind we are in. Affective neuroscience gives us...
As I drive the five miles from my house in suburban New Jersey to Rutgers University Brain Imaging Center, I take a mental inventory of my data. So far, I have collected 13 self-stimulation orgasms but only 6 orgasms brought about through partner stimulation. The goal...
