When I blog, I usually write about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. I like to think about this means by which (usually) two people address the issues that are bothering one of them. I like to think about what is really happening when two people sit down to talk at an appointed regular time in such an […]
Archive | April, 2017
Mental Health Practitioners’ Petition Regarding the Current Political Climate
“We are experienced mental health clinicians whose expertise spans various disciplines: psychoanalysis, psychology, marriage and family therapy, social work and psychiatry. As psychotherapists we have privileged access to people’s inner worlds, including anxieties and other forms of distress they may keep hidden from others. We are deeply concerned by our observations that the erratic, negative […]
Human Complexity
“The human species is fantastically complex and often doesn’t know what it is doing. The search for a better understanding of our behavior is vital. It’s also difficult, never-ending and still very much worth the struggle.” Those are the last sentences of a review in the New York Times Book Review by David Leonhardt of […]