Why Governments Need Psychoanalysts
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danger, delinquency, dialogue, Iran, projective identification, risk, simplification, splitting, symptoms, tension, triangulation, US, war
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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
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
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
Chasms Following Trauma
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Patagonia, Chile Chasms Following Trauma Bolstered by having published six scholarly psychoanalytic articles thus far, I explore... Read More
Opioid Hysteria: Rampant Reductionism and Industrialization
Pasadena, California Friday, February 15, 2019 Opioid Hysteria: Rampant Reductionism and Industrialization Even before my recent encounter with severe post-surgical pain,... Read More