James Dolan

May 12, 2019 | Law.com

With so much pressure from their jobs, lawyers' often don't have time or the mental capacity to deal with their personal relationships. Psychotherapist James Dolan, who treats a number of lawyers, calls it Work Induced Alienation Syndrome.

By James Dolan

6 minute read

September 07, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Some simply want out of law practice, some want a simpler, less stressful type of practice, and others want out of leadership or group/firm practice. It is a menacing moment to understand that a life time of effort has now come into question and in order to honor one's deepest needs, it might be time to step away.

By JAMES DOLAN

10 minute read

June 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

I have noticed many times over the years when speaking with an attorney that he is often not all there, that although he is right in front of me, the gaze is 1,000 yards behind me.

By James Dolan

7 minute read

February 11, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

How should lawyers, whose education and career teaches them how to deal with conflict, deal with conflict that isn't related to "legal"?

By James Dolan

6 minute read

December 08, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

Until a person has her own experience of profound grief, the so called Grief Process is most often seen as a kind of emotional conveyor belt at the end of which she rolls off, neatly wrapped and ready to resume normal life. Grief as lived simply does not work this way.

By James Dolan

6 minute read

November 19, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

The notion that the profession causes illness is inaccurate. This presumes the person entering the field is a blank impressionable screen on which ills are imprinted. Still, we can't ignore the challenging nature of the work.

By James Dolan

6 minute read

November 19, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

The notion that the profession causes illness is inaccurate. This presumes the person entering the field is a blank impressionable screen on which ills are imprinted. Still, we can't ignore the challenging nature of the work.

By James Dolan

6 minute read

October 29, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

The "off balance moment" is that point in an Improv performance or rehearsal when the actor fully experiences not knowing what will happen next. It can cause primal fear, racing heart, scrambled brain, the from-middle school-panic of making a fool of oneself, of failing to provide the thing you are on stage to provide: entertainment, laughs, information, etc.

By James Dolan

5 minute read

October 29, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

The "off balance moment" is that point in an Improv performance or rehearsal when the actor fully experiences not knowing what will happen next. It can cause primal fear, racing heart, scrambled brain, the from-middle school-panic of making a fool of oneself, of failing to provide the thing you are on stage to provide: entertainment, laughs, information, etc.

By James Dolan

5 minute read

May 11, 2015 | Texas Lawyer

Baby boomers have grown accustomed to being onstage, have grown comfortable there, and are having a hard time figuring the next act.

By JAMES DOLAN

5 minute read