Sexless Relationships
When there is no sex within a marriage or a romantic relationship the couple will sometimes consult me together, but most often it is just one of them. You might think it would always be the...
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The ESSENCE of Adolescence
Our modern culture encourages deeply pervasive myths about adolescence. Those myths we hear casually in repetition—that teens are driven mad by “raging hormones,” that as people they are “just...
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Grandpa White’s Diary: Jewish Immigration in 19th Century
This blog curates the voices of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. Henry Seiden, Ph.D., ABPP, Chair of the Division 39 Publications Committee submits this...
View ArticleThe Artist's Way: An Interview With Julia Cameron
When Julia Cameron began sharing her ideas about creativity with a few friends in her living room 25 years ago, she never imagined that these conversations were leading her to a gold mine (both...
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The Brain Creates the Play of Consciousness in Milliseconds
There is a hidden piece of information embedded in the article in ‘Live Science’, “New Record for Human Brain: Fastest Time to See and Image,” by Tanya Lewis on January 17, 2014 that is even more...
View ArticleGetting Your Child the Help They Need
For parents who struggle for years to get their children to seek help, treatment might seem like the final step in the journey toward wellness. After your child enters treatment, it can take months or...
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The Revenge of Bridgegate
To understand why Chris Christie’s loyal appointees and advisers sacrificed their careers–and probably their boss’s presidential ambitions–by blocking busy roads leading onto the George Washington...
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Is Psychoanalysis Dead Or Alive? Part One
It’s a bold question, Is psychoanalysis dead or alive? And a complex one. As a practicing psychoanalyst and a true believer, I wish I could make an open-and-shut case that psychoanalysis is very much...
View ArticleWhat Every Successful Person Knows, But Never Says
Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of the popular National Public Radio show, This American Life.Each week, This American Life is broadcast to more than 1.7 million listeners across 500...
View ArticleWelcome to the Sisterhood of Crones
Let me begin by saying that so far as I can tell men need initiations too. I don't think anyone questions this, but being in a woman's body I have no direct experience of being a man and so I wouldn't...
View ArticleFour Decades in Hospital For Necklace Thief
When Franklin H. Frye was found not guilty by reason of insanity for stealing a necklace worth only $20 in 1971, nobody suspected that his incarceration would last more than forty years. Or that he...
View ArticleIt's Not What's Happening...It's How You Respond
One of my favorite stories took place a number of decades ago when the English had colonized India and they wanted to set up a golf course in Calcutta. Besides the fact that the English shouldn’t have...
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Screaming Families
The other day, my client Rebecca came in teary eyed and told me that she had spent the morning fighting with her eight-year old son. “Is this normal?” she asked. She looked desperate, beleaguered,...
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What Kind of Porn Do Women Like the Most?
One question we get asked quite frequently is: What kind of porn do women like the most?Of course, this presupposes that there must be some kind of porn—and by porn, we mean visual pornography—that...
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Introverts are Not Failed Extroverts
The Buddha’s teaching on no-self or not-self is one of the most difficult for Westerners to grasp. The Buddha was not saying there isn’t a personality or some continuity of identity over time. He was...
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Are All Psychological Therapies Equally Effective?
"Everybody has won and all must have prizes," declared the dodo in Alice in Wonderland when asked to judge the winner of a race around a lake. As judgements go, it is admirably even-handed and...
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5 Tips for Using Stories in Disability Advocacy
Autistic self-advocates gathered on a freezing Boston night to protest the premiere of an autism film — reportedly surprising the autism clinicians who screened it earlier this month. The clash has...
View ArticleWhat Do Football and a Chainsaw Have in Common?
Once again it’s Super Bowl time and the end of this season’s dual opportunity for players to knock themselves silly, and for fans to damage their hearing.The former is finally being treated as a...
View Article5 Lessons about Youth Sports from an Athletic Prodigy
Mikaela Shiffrin is, at only 18 years old, the top slalom ski racer in the world, a favorite for Olympic gold in Sochi, and a veritable fount of lessons that athletes, coaches, and parents can learn...
View ArticleDoing the Creative Work the Company Can’t: Part 2 - The Rise
In most dynastic organizations there is a special role for the highly practiced innovation master who apprentices the novitiate through a “see one, do one, teach one” process of development. Consider...
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