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"When cognitive dissonance goes unaddressed, it can not only cause angst, but it can lead to impaired decision-making," said Dr. Grant Brenner, MD DFAPA, board-certified physician-psychiatrist, author, and speaker. "But when cognitive dissonance is properly addressed, it can lead to better decision-making and greater self-awareness."
ELIte daily
Knowing how to support your partner through a family emergency doesn't always come naturally to some, but empathy and love are good places to start. "It's very important for most people for their intimate others, especially romantic or life partners, to be present and supportive during family emergencies," Grant H. Brenner, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and co-author of Irrelationship tells Elite Daily.
yahoo!news
About 1 in 6 adults will have depression at some time in their life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates; the disease affects 16 million adults every year. To better understand clinical depression, Yahoo News spoke with Dr. Grant Brenner, an assistant clinical professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City, and author of the book “Making Your Crazy Work for You: From Trauma and Isolation to Self-Acceptance and Love.”
The role of bonding early in a child’s experience is a pivotal building block for health and well-being.
“The attachment bond, when safe, secure, and reliable-enough, provides the basic scaffold for developing a secure sense of self, with stable self-concept, and a sense of efficacy in managing oneself,” says psychiatrist and psychotherapist Grant H Brenner, MD. It also helps with “relating well with others and making good relationship decisions, pursuing professional goals, and generally getting satisfaction in life while weathering the difficult times,” he adds.
doctorpedia
Psychiatrist Dr. Grant Brenner talks about his work with a crisis response team, his early interest in the mind, the psychology of jokes, shadow work, his photography hobby, and more.
In “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” Joan Didion, reporting on late 1960s San Francisco hippie culture, wrote:
“Anybody who thinks this is all about drugs has his head in a bag. It’s a social movement, quintessentially romantic, the kind that recurs in times of real social crisis. The themes are always the same. A return to innocence. The invocation of an earlier authority and control. The mysteries of the blood. An itch for the transcendental, for purification. Right there you’ve got the ways that romanticism historically ends up in trouble, lends itself to authoritarianism.”
For Generation Z (and those to come after), things are irreversibly different from the late 1960s; in some ways, though, they bear a resemblance. The differences stem from the explosive impact of technology. From the Cambrian explosion of personal computers; to the emergence of the Internet, social media, and smartphones; to the current birthing of artificial intelligence (AI) and the transformative impact of machine learning and Big Data, we live in a time of uncertainty, marked by changes rivaling those of the Industrial Revolution.
NPR/WLRN
Thursday’s Topical Currents, when speak with psychiatrist Dr. Grant Brenner, who advances the concept of a sort of chemical brain bonding among people in close relationships. He says this helps maintain unhealthy relationships, while avoiding intimacy.
Psychology Today
Grant Hilary Brenner, MD, DFAPA is a psychiatrist known for enabling his clients to overcome stubborn obstacles, unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit, and maintaining resilience. Psychology Today’s ExperiMentations is a widely followed collection of articles that reflect on the human condition.