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These articles comprise over ten years worth of writing from Dr. James Schroeder, with the most recent listed first. If you are looking for a specific article or perspective on a particular topic we advise utilizing the Search bar. You may also filter articles by Category using the menu above the articles.
Health • Mental Health
The Can Collector’s Club: Clarifying Where Mental Health Begins
In 1980, my father started the Can Collector’s Club (CCC). I was 2 years old. As the story goes, it was my mother’s brainchild, but dad quickly took ahold of […]
Mental Health
When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Psychiatrist: Redefining the Profession for the Betterment of All
A few days ago, I was sitting next to my wife on the couch reading Spark: The Revolutionary Science of Exercise and the Brain written by John Ratey, a professor of Psychiatry […]
Health • Mental Health • Nature
In Letting Out the Spirit Within
In the northwest corner of Lake Superior looms the largest freshwater island in the world. It is a bastion of beauty and isolation. More people visit Yosemite in a weekend […]
Mental Health • Relationships
What Our Emotions Are Trying to Tell Us
They are as certain as death and taxes. They dominate our life. They often fluctuate minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year. They are a fabric of our […]
Family • Health
We Are What We Eat
Part I: Where Have We Come From? In 1886, long before fast food outlets would become a mainstay of American culture, a little known druggist by the name of John […]
Community • Parenting • Relationships
Cultivating Our Future: Are We Reaping What We Are Sowing?
Part I: Changing Times In 2010, the documentary Waiting for Superman debuted with a sobering view of America’s public schools. It detailed the plight of the students over the last […]
Relationships
Striving For the Ideal–In Others
The crescent moon slowly emerged over the turquoise, Caribbean waters lapping against the shores of Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park. Just minutes earlier, the blazing sun crept below […]
Community • Health • Relationships
America the Beautiful: Reconsidering the American Dream
Every so often I hear a song that I have heard countless times before only to suddenly realize that the familiar words have new meaning. It happened the other day […]
Parenting
When to Control — When to Let Go
“Do you have any idea just how much I’ve given up so that you can do this?” In the 1960’s, a developmental and clinical psychologist born in an Irish community […]
Technology
What Autism Teaches Us about Relationships – What Technology Does Not
Part I: Opening Act I am sitting directly across from him. I mention something about the rain outside. He briefly looks up and responds affirmatively, but just as quickly he […]