In a 1984 conversation, the notable black author and social critic, James Baldwin, and black feminist writer and poet, Audre…
Man’s Search for Intimacy (Revised and Extended Version)
Closeness and Intimacy In 1946, existential psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl, published a book which drastically altered the course of psychotherapy; he…
Popular Writing: Why It’s Important to Bring Complex Ideas to the World of Ordinary People
Scientific illiteracy is one the most harrowing challenges of our time; on the one hand, the public is chastised for…
Searching for Love in the Shadowlands
“The pain now is part of the happiness then; that’s the deal.” -C.S. Lewis Around this time last year, I…
Defeating the Stigma of Mental Illness: How Our Relentless Ignorance Harms Those Who Need Our Help Most
There are few things in the world that bug me more than people calling my patients ‘crazy.’ Whenever I tell…
The Elephant Man – A Poem about an Outcast
Deep into the shadows, his deformities out of sight The man whom they call Elephant hides away from the brilliant…
The Trap of the Self-Assured Don Juan
Why The Kind and Confident Don Juan You’re Looking For Doesn’t Exist “Fake it til you make it” is a…
You’ll Never Know How Much You Mean to Me – A Poem About the Relationships Which Heal Us
You’ll never know how much you mean to me Your words are forever burned into my memory You’ll never know…
Cinderella Man – A Poem about Love’s Substitution with Glory
Striding down the hallway, with a championship in sight The boy enters the ring, to begin an arduous fight The…
Our Misuse of Language and How It Affects Our Health
There’s a well-known, and sometimes detested, tradition in the field of analytic philosophy which pertains to the use of language,…
