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
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
Understanding Depression Following Cardiac Surgery
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cardiac, death, depersonalization, depression, depression after open heart surgery, emotional distress, healthcare, heart surgery, interpersonal context, medical, mental health, mortality, open heart surgery, psychology, self-image, shock, surgery, the nature of depression, thoughts, trauma, vulnerability
///Thursday, January 17, 2019 Las Vegas, Nevada Understanding Depression Following Cardiac Surgery Freshly recovering from my second aortic valve replacement surgery... Read More
How To Stop Being A Fake
Thursday, January 10, 2019 Glendale, California How To Stop Being A Fake The first step, naturally, is surrender to the simulation,... Read More
Working, Purchasing, and Soul Murdering
Sunday, November 11, 2018 Glendale, California Working, Purchasing, and Soul Murdering During the 1960s, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse proposed a worrisome... Read More
The Social Prison In Which We Live
Sunday, November 4, 2018 Glendale, California The Social Prison In Which We Live Applying his unique historical perspective to studying how... Read More