Showing results for "The Good People" in Mental Health

What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers. He explains how - and the myriad reasons why - we are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark side". Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, Zimbardo details how situational forces and group dynamics can make monsters out of decent men and women.

A therapist creates moving portraits of four of her most memorable patients, men and women she considers psychological heroes. Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist in private practice for twenty-five years. In Good Morning, Monster, she focuses on four...

YOU CANCEL YOUR PLANS. THEY NEVER CANCEL THEIRS. You answer the 11 PM texts. You absorb the complaints. You listen to the same crisis for the eighth time and offer the same advice that will never be taken. You smile and say you don't mind, even when you mind enormously. And you wonder, quietly, in the car on the way home, why being a good person feels so much like slowly disappearing. The answer is not that you are too sensitive. It is not that you need to try harder, love better, or become more understanding.

You were not born anxious. Somewhere along the way, you learned to be. You learned to rehearse conversations in your head before they happened. You learned to study people's tone, expressions, and moods before speaking. You learned that saying "no" could feel like guilt… and that expressing your needs might quietly disturb the peace. So you adapted.