When I meet a new patient I am aware that being a person is very hard. We all come into therapy or psychoanalysis come we come because we are in some kind of crisis. Coming to a stranger takes courage, coming into a consulting room or these days to work through telemedicine or on the… Read More
One way for a curious mind to develop is through the interaction of the mother/child relationship. In doing so mother is providing what psychoanalysts call mentalization; the capacity to think and to be open. Parents who cannot reflect with understanding on their child’s inner experience, and respond accordingly, deprive their children of a core psychological… Read More
Examining gratitude began in my personal analysis in the 1990’s. As my analysis unfolded my recurrent experiences of gratitude were among my most profound emotions I discovered. They were observed, named as spiritual but not really talked about in the way my other emotions were addressed. Moments of gratitude have an unquestioned quality in daily… Read More
Bach genius was in his ability as a musician to create dissonance within the stanza followed by a release of the tension creating out of this world music. Without the resolution of the dissonance sounds no one would have bothered to listened to Bach. Turning to Bach, I think B Minor Mass is the most… Read More
