A Therapeutic Space for Individuals, Couples, and Families
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.
In many professions now, so-called “quality measurement” is the dominant language, reducing, quantifying, and eventually, side-lining the importance of human interaction. This can not be good for us as living, breathing, multi-dimensional beings.
Dave: There’s no town drunks here we just take turns. Sometimes it seems to me our small universes are made out
Amy: I’m in Los Angeles this weekend, and decided to make myself a T-Shirt to express my solidarity with all
Amy: When I sat down to write this post today, I intended to write about the more “clinical” matter of anxiety.
Amy: In this Op-Ed from The New York Times, writer Jared Sexton beautifully captures what he calls the “toxic masculinity”
Amy: Part of my attraction to the video “What Nice Men Don’t Say to Nice Women” (see post from 9/5)
Dave: In an earlier post, Defiance in the Family: A Rebellion in the Name of Health, I described our idea
Dave: In my view the depressed person is often the emotionally healthiest or better, the most emotionally adequate member of
In a New York Times Op-Ed entitled “Diagnosis: Human”, written a few years ago but still pertinent, author Ted Gup