I work with many people struggling with depression and anxiety. As many of my patients can attest, although there are no quick answers or cookie-cutter solutions, with our joint commitment to delve deeply into the causes of their depression in order to seek true remedies and promote lasting change, they often feel better, less depressed […]
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Words Written a Hundred Years Ago for Today
Freud, writing one year into World War I, as war waged, not in some far foreign land, but in Europe’s backyard, his backyard, wrote about the war: “It destroyed not only the beauty of the country sides through which it passed and the works of art which it met with on its path but it […]
Psychoanalysis and the (Crazy) Modern World
I just came across a very interesting article that serves as a good introduction and argument for psychoanalysis today. The article (click here) is found on Australia’s ABC news as part of a feature that they call “All in the Mind.” The piece, along with an accompanying podcast, makes interesting points about the validity of […]
The Recovery of Wholeness
“Psychotherapy is an obstinate attempt of two people to recover the wholeness of being human through the relationship between them.” — R. D. Laing (1967) I recently came across this quotation and it seems to me to eloquently and succinctly capture what psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are all about. It seems to me that the core […]
New Posts Ahead
Now that I have updated my website and made it functional for all types of media, I am updating my blog. It’s been a while since I’ve been here and hope to blog more regularly in the future. For now, I thought I’d include a photo of summer. So this is a test run. […]