Dr. Eli Sheff is an Educational Consultant and Expert Witness Serving Sexual and Gender Minorities.
In "Polyamory, Consensual Non-Monogamy, or AltSex?"-- my newest blog on Psychology Today -- I explore the possible words for people in multiple openly conducted romantic relationships. Image is of the phrase "Words Have Power" written in white chalk on a blackboard surrounded by gray stone.
My most recent post on Psychology Today is the first in a series on children in polyamorous families and focuses on their age-dependent experiences and three reasons these kids seem to be in such good shape. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201704/children-in-polyamorous-families-part-1
In my most recent blog on Psychology Today, I explore four types of commitment in polyamorous relationships. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201610/four-types-commitment-in-polyamorous-relationships?#_=_
In my most recent Psychology Today blog I explore the possibility that polyamory may be a sexual orientation from legal and individual perspectives. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201610/is-polyamory-form-sexual-orientation
Are polyamorous relationships sexist? New Psychology Today blog answers that question https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201606/are-polyamorous-relationships-sexist
In my most recent Psychology Today blog I explore the household division of labor in polyamorous families https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201604/who-does-the-chores
My most recent blog on Psychology Today, Polyamory Advocacy, takes a look at the activists and organizations that speak out on behalf of polyamory. You can find it at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201603/polyamory-advocacy
In my newest Psychology Today blog I complete my series on therapeutic bias. The first blog examined the incidence, sources, and impacts of therapeutic bias against polyamorists and others in consensually non-monogamous relationships, and this second blog provides three ways to combat bias and the resources to follow through. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201603/3-ways-combat-therapeutic-bias-against-polyamory
In my first in a pair of blogs about jealousy I looked at jealousy in polyamorous and monogamous relationships. The second blog details five strategies useful for managing jealousy. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201602/five-strategies-manage-jealousy
My most recent blog on Psychology Today tackles the challenges people often experience when they find themselves in a mixed orientation relationship in which one person wants monogamy and the other wants polyamory. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201601/when-your-partner-wants-non-monogamy-and-you-don-t
Sheff’s television appearances include CNN, and the National Geographic, and she has given more than 20 radio, podcast, print, and television interviews with sources from Radio Slovenia to National Public Radio, the Sunday London Times to the Boston Globe and Newsweek.
