Announcing a new YouTube video about bipolar disorder.
Category: Points of Departure
The basic emotional issues that drive us, and their implications for the most common psychological problems: depression, anxiety, shame, low self-esteem, etc.
The Development of Mind and Meaning (Part I)
In early infantile development, the baby projects unbearable experience into its caretakers who, by responding appropriately to what is needed, function as a kind of external container for that experience, gradually helping the infant to develop a mind of its own.
Of Puppies and Parenting
A degree of parental hostility and resentment toward infants is normal though not usually acknowledged. This article looks at ways we may unconsciously give voice to those feelings, or split them off and direct them elsewhere.
The Biological Roots of Basic Shame
Using some of Freud’s more speculative ideas as a starting point, this article discusses the biological roots of shame as the ‘felt knowledge” that one’s development has gone seriously awry.
The Question of Sliding Scale Payment in Psychodynamic Therapy
In the psychotherapy relationship, the therapy itself is about the client’s needs while the fee concerns the therapist’s need to earn a living. When the fee is reduced due to financial hardship, the client still receives what he or she needs but the therapist must make do with less.