Quantifying Engagement in Autism Education Models
This blog post raises the question of efficacy and relevance in quantifying engagement in autism based models of education, therapy, and advocacy. It delves into our need to quantify levels of...
View ArticleAbstinence—The Only Way to Beat Addiction? Part 1
Some who struggle with addiction aren’t ready to commit to abstinence, yet they’re aware of their problem and want help. However, most treatment facilities require abstinence and see it as the only...
View ArticleHealing Our Achilles Heel Before It Kills Us
Who wouldn't want their preferences validated? Their opinions proven true? We all do, which creates problems when we have to make collective decisions while going through a clashing transition from...
View ArticleWhy Won’t They Listen To Reason?
Are they ignoring you because they can't understand, don't want to understand, or shouldn't have to understand? Each of these three points to an opposite response, leaving us confused about what to...
View ArticleHysteria: A Historic Anti-Asperger-Syndrome Syndrome?
The diametric model predicts that for every autistic syndrome, there should be a psychotic anti-syndrome, with opposite symptoms. Seen this way, hysteria begins to look like an anti-Asperger’s...
View ArticleManhattan Transference # 7 Final Episode
Transference in Group Therapy --It's All Done With Mirrors.read more
View ArticlePhilosophy as Therapy
For both Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the purpose of philosophical concepts is to point us toward the path of transformation rather than to explain. Both philosophers seek to expose the...
View ArticleThe Peril Is Not Mental Illness but the Polarized Mind
There is a reason that many of the most twisted and destructive people on this planet are not seen as “mental patients.” They tend to be ordinary or even celebrated individuals—and their brains are as...
View Article"If You Leave Me, I'll Kill Myself"
Some lovers try to hang on to a relationship by threatening suicide. An account of why they do it, and what to do about it.read more
View ArticleRecognize your Conditions of Worth
If we can free ourselves from the conditions of worth we have introjected as children we can more readily learn to be ourselves.read more
View ArticleWhy Can’t I Love My Body Like I Love Chocolate?
Treating eating disorder symptoms is easier than learning to love one’s body. In my 29 years as a psychoanalyst working with eating disordered patients, I learned the easier part of treatment is...
View ArticleSaving Face in Psychology
Efforts to save face, among psychologists, lead to a loss of face.read more
View Article8 More Reasons to Go to Therapy
A recent Huffington Post article pointed out eight warning signs that warrant a trip to the therapist. But isn't therapy about more than just treating disorders?read more
View ArticleInmate Mural Arts Program Part 1: Transformation Thru Unity
Learning from the Philadelphia Mural Arts program (see previous post) the Florida Department of Corrections, prison administrators and art therapists developed a pioneering Inmate Mural Arts Program in...
View ArticleInterpretations Are Just Opinions
We all have unique lenses through which we view the world, as well as ourselves. Our individual perceptions lead to subjective impressions and interpretations. This can be a positive or a negative...
View ArticleNeuroscience and Developmental Psychology
Recent advances in developmental theory and neurobiological research present an opportunity to design developmentally informed models for understanding and addressing challenges faced by individuals 18...
View ArticleDistress And The Malaysia Airlines Disappearance
As this event was being discussed on the SOAR Message Board and on the SOAR Facebook page, I didn't initially realize why it was causing so much distress. Then, when someone on the message board asked...
View ArticleAdult ADHD: Overdiagnosed? Underdiagnosed? Or Both?
ADHD, medication, and diagnosis: Thoughts on a new study about adult ADHD treatment.read more
View ArticleDe-Stress on Demand
More than half of all deaths result from stressful lifestyles. —U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Preventionread more
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