In his new book “Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption, and Hope in Unlikely Places,” psychologist to the Hollywood elite Dr. Carder Stout delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly of crack addiction, running drugs for the Shoreline Crips, surviving homelessness, escaping a murder plot, and…

A Hollywood psychologist’s account of his drug addiction and poverty and of his clean-and-sober return. From the outside, Stout’s early life seemed perfect. Yet behind the privilege was unhappiness: Both of his parents drank excessively, and his father was more absent than present. As a preteen, the author experimented with alcohol and marijuana; before he…

Freud knew what he was talking about (in this case): For better or worse, many psychologists believe that our adult personalities are unconsciously planted in our childhood experiences. And the way we relate to others, too, seems to be established in our very first relationships—typically with our parents. From the way our caregivers meet our…

Kind of like the saying, “Any press is good press,” the same sort of holds true with dreams, believe it or not. So basically, even if a dream technically isn’t good, it’s better to dream a dream of any kind than not dream (or remember a dream) at all. “If someone is having nightmares or…