In 2017 I wrote a #1 Best Seller that deals with “The Psychology of How We Choose to Eat, titled Unhealthy or Healthy EATING, it’s Finally up to You”. In this book, I discuss some food safety issues that I learned from taking formal initial and advanced food safety classes, required when you own a restaurant.The classes reinforced […]

After the last two editorials of Ask The Psychologist, I feel it was fitting to share my thoughts and those of what was reported in USA Today Newspaper on November 1st, 2012.   I have been asked numerous times, what I thought about the Veterans Administrations treatment of our Veterans. The last 2 issues of Ask The Psychologist entitled, “#33, Just […]

Instead of writing about Veteran Suicides, the attached radio interview covers more extensively what I have observed on this important subject. Please listen and if questions, please respond via this email and I will do my best to answer your concerns.   You should be able to either play, or download the show here: https://thepowerhour.com/podcast/veterans-day-special-w-dr-bart-billings-november-11-2021-hour-2/ or […]

On Veterans Day (2021), I was interviewed on a national radio show and the subject of veteran’s suicide came up. I reiterated what I wrote a few years back, as an editorial and would like to restate the following thoughts on the subject that I partially stated on the radio show.   “If we had […]

Joseph Heller once stated, “Just because your paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” Today I had an attorney friend of over 30 years tell me, “I don’t exactly trust anyone anymore”. Although this is the nature of being an attorney, he was personally concerned on a more human and personal levels as to who to […]

In Biblical times, people suffering from the skin disease of leprosy were treated as outcasts. … They were forbidden to have any contact with people who did not have the disease and they had to ring a bell and shout “unclean” if anyone approached them. Leprosy symbolizes the defilement of sin, which results in separation from God and the […]

I recently received a call from my graduate school informing me that it has been 50 years since I have received my PhD. Since they are doing an article about the use of my PhD I received over 50 years, they wanted to know what was most important to me in working with patients and […]

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME —              (Previous editorials can be found at www.bartpbillings.com) In graduate school, we were made aware of what was, in the past, described as a Pre-Frontal Lobe Lobotomy. But we were not given the full story of how it was reported on at […]

Generally, Ask The Psychologist focuses on general psychological issues but over the past year and a half, we have been getting inconsistent information about the world wide pandemic, which leads to psychological mistrust. I always told my interns that if you want to drive people crazy, be inconsistent, never letting a person what is coming […]

Recently I read an article in PSYCHALIVE that is very relevant to what is occurring in the world today. Whether you are dealing with political or medical situations, DENIAL may come into play and prevent, even the brightest people from seeing things clearly. Denial is a defense mechanism used to dull psychological pain, that is […]