Grief: The Gift from the Dead
“He was a bastard … but no one understood me the way he did,” she said. She started down this [...]
Superheroes and Geeks, Balancing Success and Robustness
You may already have heard of superhero or geek therapy, a form of psychotherapy that incorporates characters from comic books, [...]
Clinician’s Listening
In an earlier post, I wrote that the words ‘question’ and ‘quest’ derive from the Latin word ‘quarere,’ meaning to [...]
Two Chairs to a Better Life
Have you ever had a friend or family member confide very sensitive information to you? As clinicians, we have patients [...]
Worry. Why it is So Compelling and So Harmful
We have evolved to survive. One survival strategy that has been selected is based on our capacity to anticipate the [...]
Patients’ Quest
One simple realization I had years ago changed my view of my role as a clinician treating patients with psychiatric [...]
Heartbreak of Change
Whether we like it or not, we are almost constantly in a time of transition. For our patients, change, when [...]
Acceptance
I’ve recently been trying to make sense of ‘acceptance,’ both the word and the underlying concept. It started to make [...]