Dakota Access Pipeline, Psychoanalysis, and a Call to Action
Sunday, December 4, 2016 Cayucos, California Dear Readers, What could the Dakota Access Pipeline and psychoanalysis possibly have in common? It is... Read More
Yellow Light of Caution Regarding California Board of Psychology
Cayucos, California Sunday, November 27, 2016 Dear Readers, I stray from psychoanalysis tonight to discuss politics, local politics, politics of the administrative... Read More
The Decline of Literacy and the Rise of the Spectacle
Pasadena, California November 11, 2016 Dear Readers, Although I intend this blog to educate about psychoanalysis, Tuesday’s election of Donald Trump dramatically... Read More
Narrations Inside and Out
October 30, 2016 Glendale, California Dear Readers, Last night I watched a documentary I could not possibly recommend enough: Hypernormalization by BBC... Read More
Reflections on Freedom and Virtue
Glendale, California October 23, 2016 1230p Dear Readers, Whoever You May Be: Call it a regression, but I’ve fallen into reading Iris... Read More
Reactions to Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
Saturday, September 17, 2016 Glendale, California Dear Readers: I blog this morning to share I share my fairly strong negative reaction to... Read More
Response to Critics of “Transformational Encounters”
Glendale, California February 28, 2016 Dear Readers, I hope to amuse you with a tale about the history of ideas, in this... Read More
How Depth Psychotherapy Works
Saturday, February 20, 2016 Glendale, California Dear Readers, Clinicians in training at Rose City Center in Pasadena asked me yesterday to describe... Read More
The Assumptions Required for a Unified Model
Pasadena, California February 7, 2016 Dear Readers, Any effort to unify clinical psychoanalysis requires one basic assumption: Theories of mind must be... Read More
Reply to a critic of a unifying nomenclature for clinical psychoanalysis
Sunday, January 3, 2016 Santa Barbara, California Dear Lovely Readers of this Blog, Thanks you, Robbie, for generally acknowledging the ideas I... Read More