A Child’s Defiance: Looking Beneath The Surface
Dave: In an earlier post, Defiance in the Family: A Rebellion in the Name of Health, I described our idea
From The School of Life: “The Sanity of ‘Madness'”
Amy: Here’s another small reflection from Alain de Botton’s The School of Life. My only additional thought is that we
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
Pessimism For Lovers: From Alain de Botton
Here’s another clip from Alain de Botton from The School of Life. Enjoy:
Defiance in Families: Rebellion in the Name of Health
Defiant kids, angry kids, crazy kids, are a byproduct of family interactions, and simultaneously a byproduct of the family’s interaction with the culture.
Unexpected Therapy from David Keith
Amy: Something unexpected happened to me when I read David Keith’s “Unconventional Therapy Perspective”. (7/23). I wrote David a note
Faking Happiness Can Lead To The Blues
Tara Parker-Pope’s NY Times Well Blog talks about how faking happiness can bad for our health. This reminds me of
Being Therapeutic
Dave: What follows is on the subtle side– ideas that might be more for therapists, but there is information here
What “Confidence” Looks Like from “The School of Life”
Many thanks to one of my family doctor student for turning me on to “The School of Life”, a website
The Energy Of Eroticism: Aging, Compliance and Marriage
“Compliance carries with it a sense of futility for the individual and is associated with the idea that nothing matters, life is not worth living…”