The topics below are some of those about which I have a strong interest. Each topic is followed by one or more links to other sites that I have found particularly helpful.

That said, I really do think a lot of these sites and hope you find them useful. If you believe that there is a site that I should include here, let me know and I'll be happy to visit it and see if I agree.

• General Mental Health & Wellness
  • SupportWorks is a not for profit organization here in the Charlotte area that provides information about support and therapy organizations. Their database is exemplary, and if you are smart enough to think like they do about keywords, easy to navigate.
  • The United Way of Central Carolina's 2-1-1 is another extraordinary database that provides links to just about any kind of community service you can imagine. Again, centered on the immediate Charlotte region.
  • The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection, maintained by Robert Hsiung, MD, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago, provides links to on-line pamphlets from many universities around the country on topics ranging from relationships to academic skills.
• Anxiety Disorders
  • The Anxiety Disorders Association of America homepage lists information both for the public and for professionals on recognizing and treating anxiety disorders.
  • The National Institute of Mental Health's Anxiety Education Center provides much information for consumers and professionals.
  • The Anxiety and Phobia Internet Resource contains an enormous amount of information about all anxiety disorders, but can be a bit annoying in its use of java. If you don't mind fighting with your browser, it's a great resource.
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  • C.H.A.D.D. is a national, not-for-profit organization for people with ADD and their loved ones. It has over 32,000 members and 500 chapters. If you scroll down on their homepage, their is a link to "other add resources" which is quite exhaustive.
  • Russell Barkley, PhD, is a psychologist whose theory of ADHD and how to treat it is for me the most complete and helpful.
• Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Issues
  • The American Psychological Association's Division 44: The Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues, has a good deal of information for psychologists. For the sake of full disclosure, I should also state that I used to be one of the two webmasters for this division, but it is a volunteer job, so I'm not gaining financially from your visit.
  • The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign are national resources for gay and lesbian concerns.
  • Most national organizations that claim to be for gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons are actually only for bisexual persons as far as their issues are the same as those for gay persons and lesbian women. The Bisexual Resource is only about bisexual issues. Quite large site from a not-for-profit out of the North East.
  • The Charlotte Rainbow Newsletter is a semiregular daily listing of Charlotte and regional gay, lesbian, and bisexual related news. Ranges from social events to political controversy. If you want to stay up-to-date and live in Charlotte, subscribe from their web site.
  • There are also an excellent website about being gay in Charlotte, called GayCharlotte.com, that includes indices of businesses, organizations, and services that are welcoming to the gay community.
• Men's Issues
  • MenWeb is a wonderful site from Men's Voices magazine that offers information from traditions as diverse as mythopoetic to anthropological. Many links to other sites as well.
  • The National Association on Male Sexual Victimization provides quite a bit of good information about this largely ignored problem. Information is broken down by its intended audience: adult men, adolescent men, families, and professionals.
• Sprituality Resources
  • The Exploring Religions page has pretty exhaustive information about Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Each section is laid out in a consistent fashion, allowing for pretty easy comparisons between the religions. Hosted by the religious studies program at the University of Wyoming.
  • Dr. Michael Nielsen's Psychology of Religion page is a great source of information, with a fairly exhaustive list of links to pages about religions from Catholicism to Taoism and everywhere in between.
  • Joseph Campbell's work helps me understand the ways in which the archetypes have been translated into the various vocabularies of religions around the world. The Joseph Campbell Foundation is here.
  • The Myths & Legends Page is the work of a University of New Hampshire graduate student. Amazing list of links to just about every language and culture and its myths.
  • The Encyclopedia Mythica is a great, searchable listing of various mythologies. Most entries are just one or two paragraphs, so it's not as overwhelming. It also doesn't require you to know the culture or language tradition of the myth you are wondering about.

Last updated: 22 May 2006
Maintained by: John W. Hall, PhD - john@drjohnhall.com