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Why for free?
This has been a free public service since 1997. Why would a well known clinical psychologist answer your question for free and pay for the phone call too? Because Dr. Kenner makes her answer available on her podcast / talk show so others with the same issue can benefit. The show is a public service and is question-driven; your questions are the motor of the show.
This is not therapy
Although you will be receiving helpful advice from Dr. Kenner, remember that this is not therapy and cannot replace a fully contextual one-on-one relationship with a mental health professional.
Today's Podcast Topic... What is an affair and why are they so tempting? - a short interview with Dr. Tiffany Kisler.
Today's Romance Quote
From Ellen's and Ed's new romance book: The Selfish Path to Romance - How to Love With Passion and Reason...
This is quote 42, from
Part 2 (Making Yourself Lovable)
Chapter 6
(Develop Genuine Self-Esteem)
"Selfless people cannot have self-esteem, because they have no self to esteem."
This Week's Article
The Meaning of Money "Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. . . ."
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New Book
The Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love With Passion and Reason / Dr. Edwin A. Locke and Dr. Ellen Kenner
All books on this page may be purchased at discount
"No man can claim virtue in that he is merely generous with another's wealth." Dale Graessle
Featured
Money CAN Buy Happiness / by Dr. Tara Smith
It may sound ridiculous but money is underrated. It is persistently attacked from the left, the right, religious and secular sources. Dr. Smith's aim in this paper is to clarify the relationship between money and happiness.
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Money and Happiness
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Description
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Sting Shift / Smith and Walstad
Arm yourself against scams, psychics and swindlers of all kinds. Written as an aid for law enforcement.
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The Truth About Avoiding Scams / Weisman
Scams are everywhere...
Now discover exactly how to protect yourself!
The truth about recognizing today's newest scams - online and off
The truth about safgeguarding your money, health, and reputation
The truth about phishing, vishing, pharming, slamming, and more
This book reveaks 61 proven bite-size, easy scam-proofing techniques that work
Atlas Shrugged / by Ayn Rand
Ranked 2nd in a Library of Congress survey of books that made a difference in people's lives, this novel is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder of man's spirit.
Ranked 14th in a Library of Congress survey of books that made a difference in people's lives, this novel contains incredible psychological insights into the motivations and basic premises that produce a variety of character traits.
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Money CAN Buy Happiness / by Dr. Tara Smith
It may sound ridiculous but money is underrated. It is persistently attacked from the left, the right, religious and secular sources. Dr. Smith's aim in this paper is to clarify the relationship between money and happiness.
Click next column for more information-->
The Ominous Parallels / Dr. Leonard Peikoff
Subtitle: The End of Freedom in America
Nazism, Dr. Peikoff argues, was made possible by the German philosophers who advocated unreason and self-sacrifice—and whose ideas now rule American universities.
Table of Contents
1. The Cause of Nazism
2. The Totalitarian Universe
3. Hitler's War Against Reason
4. The Ethics of Evil
5. The Nation of the Enlightenment
6. Kant Versus America
7. United They Fell
8. The Emotionalist Republic
9. The Nazi Synthesis
10. The Culture of Hatred
11. The Killers Take Over
12. Hitler in Power
13. The Concentration Camps
14. America Reverses Direction
15. Convulsion and Paralysis
16. "A Republic—If You Can Keep It"
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand/ Dr. Leonard Peikoff
Containing an entire chapter on happiness, this is the first comprehensive statement of Ayn Rand's philosophy. Although the text can be understood by the general reader, you will have an easier time if you have first read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.Click next column for more information-->
Psychological Self-Defense / Dr. Ellen Kenner, Ph.D
Whether dealing with a deviously critical mother, a deliberately incomprehensible professor or an envious co-worker, how do you resist the tendency to "keep the peace," to forgive and make excuses for them—to apologize for the good within you? How do you remain morally true to yourself? How do you avoid granting them the "sanction of the victim"? In this course Dr. Kenner provides how-to advice on detecting and counteracting intentionally manipulative people.
With an abundance of examples—drawn from both real life and fiction—she explains the subtle methods by which manipulative people gain psychological footholds. Rather than being formal lectures, these six sessions include frequent questions from the students as well as staged confrontations in which Dr. Kenner plays the role of a manipulator. Though she sketches out some of the psychological principles involved, her central purpose is to teach practical skills that can help you maintain your integrity, pursue your happiness and navigate safely through the traps of would-be manipulators. (5hr 40min)
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mp3 download ($40) 10 files, 25meg/file, Item 010512
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The Virtue of Selfishness / Ayn Rand
Find out why honesty, integrity and justice are selfish and are virtues, and why bank robbery is not selfish and is a vice. Discover the difference between sacrificing for others and having a benevolence towards others.
Dr. Kenner has written many articles and presented many seminars and courses around the country. She is co-author of a serious guidebook on romance and has produced over 500 podcasts. See search bar above for topics.
Humor How humor can help or hurt your chances for happiness Emotions Emotions and logic are allies in your search for happiness Morality Terrorism Sometimes the way we cope with terrorism in our own minds and the way we deal with it socially have the opposite effect we intend
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(Under Construction) Happiness requires that you are satisfied that your mind deals with people and events in a rational manner Valuing Skills (Under Construction) Happiness requires that you choose only rational values to seek out and work to obtain
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