A discussion of the psychological cycle of crime and punishment in people who never seem to learn from their experience or grow in psychotherapy.
The Fallacies of Psychological Diagnosis
The false analogy between diagnosing physical and mental illness provides a rationale for reimbursement from insurance companies to psychotherapists, helps alleviate shame in patients and enables the pharmaceutical companies to make billions of dollars.
Celebrity and Romantic Love: “Meaning” in the Modern World
In modern American society, a large number of people pursue the twin cults of celebrity and romantic love as the sole sources of meaning in life.
Different Types of Depression
A discussion of three underlying dynamics in clinical depression: unconscious rage, a drastically fragmented self and toxic levels of shame.
Art and the Dread of Experience
A discussion of one particular form of artistic inhibition, where artists misuse their art form in order to deaden unbearable emotions. Great works of art have dimension; they contain and express vital human truths. Unsuccessful works of art created in this defensive manner instead deaden emotion, rendering it “flat”, “two-dimensional” or lacking in depth.