When Sad Becomes Mad
This Family Medicine hospital consultation involved a mute patient who had just had her leg amputated. The hospital staff was angry at her. Then this young doctor took the time to learn what was going on and everything changed.
Category: Case Stories
A Daughter With Chronic Illness Learns To Love Herself
When family dysfunction meets disease: How a therapy session transformed family patterns and helped a young woman improve her self-care.
Good Psychotherapy Is Not “Cognitive”: It’s An Experience
Dave: I have been thinking, “There is more to life than Trump.” So I am going to get off the
THE “DUMBING DOWN” OF OUR CULTURE AND OTHER EVENTS
Lack of curiosity is a dangerous thing–in medicine, therapy, culture. Trump’s manner of speaking certainly promotes “not knowing what you don’t want to know”. He is a disturbing model for over-simplified explanations and sneering at complexity or any level of sophistication or subtlety.
Unconscious Family Patterns: A Woman Learns To Be Sick
Dave: I have a long interest in patterns of illness in families. Much of my clinical work is involved in
Unexpected Therapy For A Guy Couple: What Jazz Musicians Had To Say
Jazz musicians as family therapists: Check out this case where jazz musicians were my “consultants” to a couple in therapy. It’s just as surprising as you might imagine.
Beneath the Mask of Family Unity: A Case Story Continued
Here is a second session from the family with “enforced togetherness” where one member is what I call “insane”; locked inside sanity, locked in unbending, pathological sanity.
The Mask of Family Unity: A Case Story
Here’s a first session with a “misbehaving” boy that reflects the corrosive effect of “enforced unity” in families
The Symbolic Meaning Of A Child’s Symptoms: What’s in the Shadows?
Dave: The birth of the baby represents a quantum jump in intimacy and the complexity of living. There is a
Part II: A Case Reflection on A Family Group Psychosis
The is Part II of the Case Reflection, A Family Group Psychosis: (See Post from 6/30) DK: Two weeks later, the