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Connected.
This will relate to you and psychology/therapy/counseling, I promise… just hang in there with me… Some friends of mine have been really struggling with the BP oil… spill? (Wiki here)… it’s so big, I...
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Sheldon Kopp
You may remember being a kid, and having someone suggest you write an essay about the person who influenced you most. With the exception of a musician or two, the person that is likely that for me is...
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Attitude of Platitude
Talking with a client the other day, the subject of platitudes came up. Many of us use them routinely. Whether opining about inferences made, used polemically, or giving feedback to a friend or loved...
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Difficulties, Diagnoses, the DSM.
In a New York Times Op-Ed piece from today, one of the leads on the DSM-IV (the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual”, the current edition of an industry standard tool for mental health, primer here)...
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Why Being a Therapist Is Better than Being a __________, at Least for Me.
When I was a kid and started thinking about what I was going to do as a “career”, I always knew I’d be a therapist or musician (as it turned out, was lucky enough to do both). The reason is in part,...
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What the Heck is “Euthymia”, and Why Should I Care?
Before getting into details, let’s make note of this: I’m altering the definition of the term as a way of creating a framework that allows us to look at something we don’t hear enough about in...
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Advice for New Therapists… and Longtime Ones.
A week ago, my longtime friend Stan Smith MSW asked me to do some talks at USC. The students were fantastic- they were really attentive, experienced, knew a lot of stuff, and so cool for me to see-...
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Clumsy Solutions
For many years now, I’ve noticed something that I think is pretty interesting. We all have similar problems. Problems of love, death, loss, fears, mistakes, power, our bodies, work, school,...
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Success of Relationships
Was asked recently by a student, “How long do you think a couple should be together before they get married?” There’s no way to give a full answer to this in a blog, but think it important, and would...
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We Should Be More Critical…
… in our thinking. While loathe to say that in the current environment, and think we second-guess ourselves in unhealthy ways, am referring to a different type. Whatever first brings my employers...
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