Is Hating Your Partner Normal?
When I’m treating a couple in therapy and flashes of hate appear, I’m never worried. In fact, I’m more worried
Category: Arts/Healing
Good Medicine For Stressful Times
In crazy, unprecedented times like these it can be helpful to turn to spiritual wisdom. If we are able to rise above the din, we may be able to discover some hidden beauty.
Men in Therapy: Dealing With The #MeToo Movement, and Themselves
In his thoughtful Op-Ed from The New York Times, psychotherapist Avi Klein reflects on the men who come to him
ADHD Medications: Good For Big Pharma, Not For Kids
We’re revisiting a past article by Dr. Allen Frances, a prominent psychiatric “insider” who now spends his time railing against the overprescribing of psychiatric medications. Here he talks about the New York Times article which connected the proliferation of “ADHD” in kids to the profiteering by the drug companies. This is a wake up call to parents and professionals alike. Frances says, “as it stands now, we are doing an uncontrolled experiment on our kids with no clue about the long term effects of the meds on their brains and behavior.”
What If The “Sick” Person Is The Healthiest Of All?
Here Dave proposes the countercultural idea that problems like depression, ADHD, bipolar and other “disorders” are often healthy responses to the pain of unhealthy relationships.
Success-Shaming: A Subtle Way To Disempower Women
There’s a lot of attention focused now on sexual transgressions as a part of  the power imbalances between men and
“Argue As If You’re Right But Listen As If You’re Wrong”
This is some advice from Adam Grant, professor of management and psychology at the Wharton School of Business. In today’s
Unleashing the Power of Our Fairy Tale Princesses
Here’s a post from the New York Times about the importance of liberating our fairy tale princesses, in all their complexity and power.
Wild Women Usually Don’t Get The Blues
As a culture we are talking a lot lately about the many subtle and not-so-subtle ways men have of sabotaging female power. Here Dave reflects on what this says about the power dynamics between the sexes. Hint: Perhaps it has something to do with (unconscious) male fear of female superiority?
The Opposite of A “Good Death”: A Young Woman’s Grief
Surgeon Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, has a lot to say about the unintended consequences of doctors’ failure to acknowledge the dying process. Here’s a case of a young woman whose complicated grief over her mother’s death reflects this failure.