There are few things in the world that bug me more than people calling my patients ‘crazy.’ Whenever I tell…
Becoming One’s Own Mother and Father: The Difficulty of Growing Up
The most challenging aspect of individuation, of growing up, is the groundlessness breadth our feet, the fact that the universe,…
Living in My Imagination: How Trauma Fosters an Unquenchable Desire for Idealized Love
Throughout our quests for the perfect mate, we frequently find ourselves fantasizing about what that mate would be like: we…
Why Self-Esteem is Toxic: The Case for a Better Way to Love Yourself
Psychological Manipulation and the Need for Boundaries
Psychological manipulation can come in varied forms and from a multitude of individuals, some close to us and others who…
Mental Illness and False Beliefs: How Our Misperceptions of Ourselves and the World Around us Sustain our Fear and Sadness
I often cover topics related to self-esteem, about how thinking differently, and more realistically, about oneself engenders a sense of…
Why Do I Need to be Normal?
“The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the…
Tragedy on Repeat: How Our Traumatic Past Informs Our Tumultuous Present
These sessions have been reproduced with the expressed consent of my client. Names and other identifying information have been altered.…
Man’s Search for Intimacy
In 1946, existential psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl, published a book which drastically altered the course of psychotherapy; he titled it Man’s Search…
The Toxicity of Both Positive and Negative Thinking
A prominent theme in pop psychology is the notion of positive thinking and its purported health benefits. We’re told that…
