Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD has answered the following questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I’m a 24-year-old woman, and I can’t seem to get rid of my toxic father. My parents divorced when I was a-year-old. I did not see my father until I was maybe eight years old. I was so excited to finally have a father in my life that I did everything in my power [...]
Q: I am struggling through a divorce from a man whom I thought was the love of my life when I married him. To marry me, my husband essentially created a whole image and persona, espousing personal values that were my values, and lived a complete lie of a life that finally fell apart once [...]
Q: Today was a bad day! My mom sent me to cut onions, and I went to do it. Anyway, while I was doing it my dad started shouting at me because he noticed that I was not “smiling” while I was doing the work. I got angry and talked back to him saying that [...]
Q: I think it’s time to ask the question, what exactly is going on with me? I have a lot of stress at my family owned business, due to my father’s dumping of over a million dollars into a restaurant for the son he never provided for (and now the son and our father have [...]
Q: I am a 56-year-old woman who is intelligent, I have a good marriage, I’m not depressed, I don’t have any prominent emotional/psychological issues, and this is not something that has caused problems in the past. I’m not particularly prone to emotional attachments to celebrities. There were two periods of time in my life when [...]
Q: What type of treatment would one expect when visiting a Ph.D. versus a M.D.? I am looking for a doctor who can help with Battle Fatigue/PTSD. Who and what kind of treatment would best help me? A: In mental health services in the US, a Ph.D. is typically a licensed Psychologist or Counselor who [...]
Q: My husband had quadruple heart bypass surgery in February 2008. In May 2008, he went into cardiac rehab at the local hospital. An RN began sharing her personal marital problems with my husband, then began coming to our home on a daily basis, and calling my husband several times a day — even calling [...]
