Why Governments Need Psychoanalysts
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/Sunday, June 23, 2019 Glendale, California Why Governments Need Psychoanalysts Not exactly the kind the fictional character Deanna Troi on Star Trek... Read More
How Virtues Become Vices
How Virtues Become Vices Aristotle, the Greek dude you learned about in school, lived from 384 to 322 BCE. He wrote powerfully... Read More
The Dominance of the Unconscious Mind
Entering my fortieth year of practicing depth psychology, I find it painfully ironic to finally believe in, and surrender to, the dominance of... Read More
In Denial No Longer: Midlife Crisis for Sale
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Can a mid-life crisis be sold? Yes! During mid-April, I sold an awesome, way-cool sports car I owned for 15 years. I... Read More
What Heart Surgery Taught Me About Delayed PTSD
It took the Vietnam War to barely wake up the globe to the reality of post-traumatic stress conditions—known most commonly as post-traumatic... Read More
It’s Time to Face Our Anxiety and Embrace Critical Thinking
This morning’s election of Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian with no political experience, brings the problem of critical thinking to—pun intended—a critical level.... Read More
Finding Your Authentic Self in a World of External Influence
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arts, authenticity, books, Carl Jung, experts, individuality, interests, living-a-lie, movies, music, preferences, scripts, scripts people live, self, Shakespeare, soccer, songs, theory, thoughts, values, writing
///Carl Jung famously wrote something like: It’s not that a person has an idea. The idea has the person. What did he... Read More
How You Avoid the Moment — Part II — Terror of Uncertainty
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Buddha, Buddhism, ephemeral, fleeting, future, imaginary, lies-to-self, mindfulness, moment-as-passing, philo, philosophy, plans, terror, thoughts, uncertainty, verbs, virture
///Saturday, April 6, 2019Glendale, California How You Avoid the Moment — Part II — Terror of Uncertainty I briefly add two... Read More
How You Avoid The Moment — Part I
Sunday, March 31, 2019 Glendale, California How You Avoid The Moment — Part I Striving to live as much “in the moment”... Read More
Stray Thoughts On Freedom
Sunday, March 24, 2019 Glendale, California Stray Thoughts On Freedom Near the end of Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, she references a lecture she... Read More