So You Realize You Need Therapy; Now What?
Given the myriad therapies and disparate therapists there are to choose from, it can be daunting to decide which way to turn for psychological help.
On Coming Out as an Ongoing Developmental Process
The phrase “coming out” typically refers to difficult and often traumatic encounters whereby lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people publicly acknowledge their sexual preferences and identifying genders.
On Considering Thanksgiving
Anxiety. Yes, we all have it from time to time. Chances are, we’ve all said the following to ourselves:
• “Gosh, I feel so on edge today, but I’m not sure why.”
• “I just can’t seem to concentrate. I feel like I’m in a brain fog.”
• “I totally flipped out at my kids after dinner tonight…how come?”
What is Subconscious Anxiety?
Anxiety. Yes, we all have it from time to time. Chances are, we’ve all said the following to ourselves:
• “Gosh, I feel so on edge today, but I’m not sure why.”
• “I just can’t seem to concentrate. I feel like I’m in a brain fog.”
• “I totally flipped out at my kids after dinner tonight…how come?”
What is Depth Psychology?
The primary core belief of depth psychology is that our unconscious processes have a strong influence on how we live, love, work, and function in the world. Practitioners of depth psychology (also called depth therapy) help us to explore and understand what exists at the depths of our unconscious selves as well as within the human experience.
Knowing Yourself is the Beginning of All Wisdom
This famous quote by the Greek philosopher Aristotle has graced scholarly literature, textbooks, and countless academic circles for centuries. Now, it also permeates social media, podcasts, blogs, and other internet resources. But what does this phrase really mean? More important, how exactly do we acquire this priceless self-knowledge?
Behavior Therapy vs. Psychoanalysis: Which One is Best for You?
The decision to begin mental health therapy is often a difficult one. However, it may be one of the best lifetime choices you have ever made. Know that you are not alone.
On Paradoxes of Freedom
Dan, a psychoanalytic patient I have been seeing for several years, was recently telling me a dream he had the night before. The dream featured “a small white cottage in the country
On Engaging the Unrecognizable
When my patient, Dan, was six years old his father left him and his mother, his mother tried to kill herself, and they moved out of the family’s apartment in Greenwich Village.
Serious Play
A review of One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips. London, England: Hamish Hamilton, 2013. 395 pp.
Considering the Ideal Institute, or Reflections on How Not to Know Best
This essay addresses some of the essential paradoxes inherent in the training of psychoanalysts. A variety of perspectives are considered on how best to become an expert in a field of study where the essential focus is on what is not yet known.
A Review of Going Sane: Maps of Happiness by Adam Phillips
A map is a metaphor for adventure, intended for a potential traveler equipped, perhaps, with nothing more than an urge for going.