May 14, 2018
Stories organize us, and “bad stories” organize us in destructive ways. In this post I will address one example: the story told about how skilled mental […]
May 22, 2016
What exactly are “mental health problems”? In the mainstream, psychological difficulties are seen as “symptoms” of an “illness” or “mental disorder” and based on this the […]
March 9, 2014
One idea I’ve been intrigued by for awhile is the notion that psychosis can arise from attempts to heal dissociation. Dissociation is all very ordered and […]
December 12, 2012
A recent article, “Screw Positive Thinking! Why Our Quest for Happiness Is Making Us Miserable” provides humorous perspective on the ways seeking too hard after happiness can make […]
July 21, 2012
I was recently talking with a young man about his anxiety, which he experiences as extreme. When I asked him what the anxiety was about, he […]
March 26, 2012
I recently receive a tweet from Intervoice, that said “This is a odd research finding in my view, what do you think? http://fb.me/L9cs3NTR” Curious, I clicked […]
November 27, 2011
When we think that something inside of ourselves is a “symptom of an illness” then we very naturally want to get rid of it. But what […]
May 2, 2011
Here’s my first, very amateur webinar – this is using software that is just for pre-recorded webinars, if I really get into doing them it’s best […]