Watch Dr. John Oldham’s 2014 interview with Lord Owen about The Hubris Syndrome
- February 11, 2019
- Videos
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How Well Do You Mentalize?
- January 28, 2019
- Dr. Oldham
By John M. Oldham, MD At the Menninger Clinic, where I work, we speak a lot about the importance of mentalizing. It simply means the ability to see yourself from the outside and to see others from the inside. In other words, the ability to put yourself in another person’s shoes and try to […]
GOOD AT WORK, GOOD IN BED
- December 11, 2018
- Conscientious
Are you a conscientious person: organized, detail-oriented, reliable, dutiful, focused on work, predictable and orderly? If so, according to The Journal of Sex Research, you and your partner are probably having good sex. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany, studied 964 couples to see how personality affected their sex lives. They gave them questionnaires […]
Dr. John Oldham commends Pete Davidson on Good Morning America
- December 06, 2018
- Borderline
Watch Dr. Oldham, an expert in personality styles and personality disorders, as he commends comedian Pete Davidson for being open about his diagnosis of borderline personality disorder on Good Morning America. Dr. Oldham is the interim chief of staff at the Menninger Clinic in Houston.
DOES PERSONALITY STYLE AFFECT DEPRESSION?
- November 19, 2018
- Dr. Oldham
John M. Oldham, MD Why is it that so few people who recover from an episode of severe depression never have another one? This question, addressed in a recent New York Times article, brought to mind one of my own: What does personality have to do with it? Flourishing After Depression In the New […]
WHAT YOUR BODY SHAPE SAYS ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY
- November 09, 2018
- General
Do you look trustworthy? Lazy? Enthusiastic? When it comes to snap judgments, your body shape affects other’s first impressions of your personality. Researchers at the University of Texas in Dallas tested their theory that body-shape and personality-trait stereotypes affect how we judge and interact with people we haven’t met before. The Body Shape Study […]
Truth About Lies
- October 29, 2018
- Dr. Oldham
By John M. Oldham, MD For $99.95, anyone can purchase a lie detector from Walmart. Who buys a polygraph test? Who uses it? Who relies on the results? These are questions I can’t answer, and I was surprised to find one being marketed to the public, since even in expert hands, lie detection results are […]
