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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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. […]
Often people come to therapy searching for tools. Couples come because they are fighting a lot and wish to acquire tools to help deescalate the intensity and reduce the frequency of their arguments. Individuals come because they are overly anxious or feeling depressed and wish to have tools to decrease their symptoms. Or perhaps a […]
The human infant is well endowed to struggle with the vicissitudes of his internal and environmental stresses. What is important for us is to be able to identify in the clinical process what effects this struggle has left and how it has shaped the adult character – M. Masud R. Khan What do trees, the […]
Our Curse is an Oscar-nominated film (Documentary Short) that, as the NY Times caption puts it, shows a young couples struggle “to overcome every new parent’s worst nightmare: a child born with a life-threatening illness.” The movie was made by Tomasz Śliwiński, who lives in Warsaw, where he is a student at the Warsaw Film […]
On the way to work this morning, I heard a radio ad, I think it was for some headphone, and the tag line was “Listen to the truth.” That really caught my ear and attention, given that I have lately been reading the very thought-provoking and influential psychoanalytic thinker, Wilfred Bion. Bion writes a lot […]
Sometimes people come into therapy looking for tools. Sometimes they are experiencing depression or intense levels of anxiety; sometimes they are having problems in relationships of all kinds. And while there is something to be said for deep breathing and relaxation techniques, I am not a therapist who provides instruction in those things. I don’t […]
