by Harper West | Dec 14, 2021 | Domestic Violence, Other-Blamer, Relationships
Janine is divorcing her emotionally abusive narcissistic husband and our weekly therapy sessions are often an exploration of her rollercoaster of conflicting feelings. She is grieving a marriage ending and life not turning out as she had hoped. Naturally, she has...
by Harper West | Feb 22, 2018 | Domestic Violence
This statistic should shock: Approximately one in three adolescent girls in the United States is a victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner.(1) I hear about these relationships all the time in therapy, from teens experiencing toxic...
by Harper West | Feb 20, 2018 | Domestic Violence, Other-Blamer
After each major gun incident pundits revisit the debate: Are mass shooters mentally ill? Conservatives and gun owners s claim that mental illness is the real problem, not the prevalence of gun ownership. Of course, statistics and common sense refute this illogical...
by Harper West | Dec 5, 2017 | Domestic Violence
A recent shooting in a small town near my office clearly showed the cascading psychological damage of gun violence. Thousands of people were affected by this one incident, beyond the person who was killed and her partner who may now be in prison for the rest of his...
by Harper West | Nov 7, 2017 | Domestic Violence
With each mass shooting, the media struggles to explain the reasons for these attacks: Why does a Devin P. Kelley in Texas shoot up a church? Why does Stephen Paddock shoot hundreds at a concert in Las Vegas? Why did James Holmes, a neuroscience grad student, shoot up...
by Harper West | Jun 20, 2017 | Domestic Violence, Other-Blamer, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
Recently some have wondered: Do psychologists have a “duty to warn” about Trump’s dangerous emotional state? Some have made comments criticizing the fact that I am a contributor to the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and...
