Michael Mantell

Dr. Michael Mantell

Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. is a retired psychologist, best-selling author, international speaker, and a highly sought after cognitive behavioral coach whose actionable, valuable and practical work has been featured on Fox News, ABC-TV, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. He has been teaching how Torah’s wisdom can lead to optimal living for many decades. You can follow him on Facebook and in other social media, where he has posted the #MantellDaily5 everyday for years.

His books, available on Amazon, include:

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*Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: P.S. It’s All Small Stuff
*The Link Is What You Think 
*Ticking Bombs: Defusing Violence in the Workplace (with Steve Albrecht)
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Setting goals for our prayers

By Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — I recently went on the Rabbinical Assembly website and found 15 prayerbooks. Prayerbooks. Fifteen of them. Who needs fifteen different prayerbooks? I guess the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis believes we, the members of Conservative congregations worldwide, need them. But fifteen? Seriously? This got me […]

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Forget TV catch phrases; try these

By Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO–Imagine waking up in the next century with those words made famous by Regis Philbin, sandblasting its way into our popular lexicon:  “Is that your final answer?”  Along with “Where’s the beef?” and “Yada Yada Yada,” not to mention, “You look mahvelous,” “I’ve a feeling were not in Kansas

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Why manage what you can prevent?

By Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — When did leaders in workplace wellness become hoodwinked and duped into thinking managing something is better than preventing it?  I guess they believe buying ambulances, paying for emergency room services, expensive tests, medications, and aftercare trumps a fence. I’ll explain with a story about a little village in

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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education

Stadium funding not a city priority — Emerald

Story by David Ogul; photos by Michael Mantell SAN DIEGO — This city does not have money for a new, publicly funded, $1.1-billion football stadium that backers hope will keep the Chargers from bolting to Los Angeles, City Councilmember Marti Emerald told several dozen people at a Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club dinner Wednesday night.

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David Ogul, Michael Mantell, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

Four Links to Positivity

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — The self-help blogs and media are filled with useful information about positive psychology, becoming your best self, leading the good life, and the value and benefits of being optimistic, positive and hopeful. It’s next to impossible–from more than 3000 years of Judaism’s wisdom on happiness to Joel

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The most hateful word you know

By Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — Sure, you may be thinking that word might be “hate,” “poverty,” “illness,” or “death.” No, these words are mild compared to the life-sucking, contentment-robbing, depression-boosting, anxiety-causing and anger-building word I’m thinking of. That word is “should.” In the wonderful words of my mentor and teacher, Albert Ellis, Ph.D.,

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San Diego Jewish World authors: Michael Mantell

Editor’s Note: San Diego Jewish World is fortunate to have among its contributors the authors of many books. To acquaint you with them, and their literary output, we will from time to time offer articles by the authors telling of their works.  This article is by Dr. Michael Mantell, an Advanced Behavior Coach based in San Diego.  By

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Michael Mantell

Sex abuse victim offers advice to parents

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Child sex abuse in an Orthodox Jewish community, indeed in any community, is not an easy topic to discuss. It isn’t an easy topic to write about either, especially in a Jewish publication. But when Judy Bloom Friedel called and asked if I would moderate a panel

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education