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A Comment on Current Race Relations

August 27, 2020 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

I’m not getting into any specific arguments about who thought or did what regarding Jordan Blake, George Floyd, or any of the other black and brown people we’ve seen mercilessly killed. I’m not going to explain away, justify or even say the name(s) of those who have enacted white supremacy by taking the law into […]

Filed Under: race, relationships, Uncategorized

An Open Letter to Young Adults about Sex, Drugs and Alcohol

February 27, 2015 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

Dear Young Person: Alcohol, drugs and sexuality can enhance and create life. They work. They can alter your moods, change your perceptions and disinhibit you. It’s fun to be able to behave differently. Blotting out discomfort relieves anxiety. Going wild can release tension. Alcohol, drugs and sexuality have always been part of the human experience. […]

Filed Under: adolescence, human interaction, identity, relationships, young adults Tagged With: adolescent anxiety, adolescent drinking, adolescent sexuality, alcohol and hooking up, alcohol and young adults, drugs and young adults, is saying no okay, sexuality and young adults

Teach Your Children Well

February 26, 2015 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

I’m not going to link to every reported instance of college or high school partying getting out of hand. Nor am I going to link to the number of emergency room visits that occur every weekend due to alcohol poisoning or drug overdoses; nor every instance of campus sexual abuse. In almost every adolescent community […]

Filed Under: adolescence, human interaction, parenting, relationships Tagged With: adolescent drinking, adolescent limit setting, adolescent sexuality, alcohol and hooking up, campus drug abuse, Campus sexual abuse and alcohol, college drug use, ecstasy abuse, molly abuse

How to Date in Five (not so easy) Lessons

February 23, 2015 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

I’m not sure why exactly it is easier to arm the student population than to simply reinforce the idea that sexuality is an extension of a relationship. I’m not advocating a return to a repressive sexuality. Rather, I’m thinking that the brilliant talented kids who constitute our country’s future might benefit from learning how to […]

Filed Under: adolescence, human interaction, relationships Tagged With: adolescent sexuality, dating, dating tips, hooking-up alternative, how to date, young adult sexuality

Thoughts on Male Sexuality

December 27, 2013 by Susan Bodnar 1 Comment

In an age when sexuality has become openly commonplace, both boys and girls find it hard to recognize and value limits. Conversations offer a beginning point, an opportunity to sort out the new sexual mores for the twenty-first century. See my recent post on CNN.com for some thoughts about helping boys find an honorable sexuality.

Filed Under: adolescence, relationships Tagged With: adolescent anxiety, adolescent drinking, adolescent sexuality, honorable male sexuality, male teen sexuality, parent guide to teen sexuality, raising good men, sexual mores for teens

The Mothers of Diversity

December 2, 2013 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

We live in a kaleidoscopic time. Social diversity accompanies globalization and technologization.  We seek shelter with similar others only to encounter difference in every excursion. The tension between diversity and unity has never been greater.  We are unique, equal, and still one humanity.  Building diverse togetherness entails intricate stitch work – small threads of different […]

Filed Under: diversity studies, parenting, relationships Tagged With: cultural mothers, Elton John as mother, JK Rowling as mother, John Lennon as mother, Langston Hughes as mother, motherhood, mothers of diversity, social nurturance, superior mothers, value of mothers, value of nurturing professions

Status Anxiety

October 31, 2013 by Susan Bodnar 2 Comments

A mom stepping down the steps of her third-floor walk-up dreads attending the class parent meeting in another family’s Fifth Avenue doorman building.  An adolescent male doesn’t invite friends to his home because he doesn’t to be judged poorly because of his family’s wealth. Another young man won’t invite friends to his house because he […]

Filed Under: human interaction, relationships Tagged With: changing class status, class anxiety, problems changing class status, status anxiety, upward mobility

Binge Sex: How Kids Learn About Rape

October 22, 2013 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

Is there an epidemic of binge sex?  Is there a week that goes by without a story about teens or young adults drinking way too much who end up in an encounter of unwanted sexual contact and rape? In response to the recent onslaught of these stories Emily Yoffe’s post urged women to stop drinking. […]

Filed Under: adolescence, parenting, relationships, young adults Tagged With: binge behavior, Binge drinking, binge sexuality, date rape, Emily Yoffe girls and alcohol, parent guide to teen sexuality, Soraya Chemaly, teen sexuality

The I’m not Frank Rich Syndrome: A Clinical Analysis

March 8, 2011 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

  A funny thing happened in my practice last week.  A number of people, no fewer than seven, lamented, “I’m not Frank Rich.” People are often unhappy and upset when they talk to me.  Sometimes they discuss the impact of upbringing and sometimes their problematic temperaments.  Never, however, had I heard so many people attributing […]

Filed Under: human interaction, relationships, Uncategorized Tagged With: Frank Rich, Frank Rich leaves NYTimes, Frank Rich Syndrome, life span evolution, mid-life transition, personal change, Personal growth, Personal transformation

Who owns a country? The question of space, place and territory.

March 1, 2011 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

  Far away, people in countries across the Mideast have been rebelliously signaling to their leadership that they want better governance and more freedoms.  Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo spoke about a world where differences in religion become opportunities to better know each other and to create a shared world where all children grow up […]

Filed Under: human interaction, personal environmentalism, relationships Tagged With: meaning of country, meaning of place, mideast uprisings, multicultural, New York City life, Obama Cairo speech, psychological meaning of country, psychology and place, psychology and space, psychology and territory

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Susan Bodnar, Ph.D

Relational Psychologist


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