Category: Psychotherapy
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Mystery: An Antidote to Totalizing Ideas
A chilly, wet day. The river has overflowed its banks and filled the floodplain. Friday I attended a professional ethics conference focused on diversity. As is too often the case at such conferences, diversity was broadly defined and rigidly illustrated, essentially leaving out disability and Native America. It did not help my mood that although…
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We’re Home!
The past two weeks have been quite busy and I have not had time to post. The next few days seem likely to follow that recent trend so I wanted to write a quick note. We’ve just returned from the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Annual Conference. This year the event took place…
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Trauma, Spirits, and the “I”
A clear, crisp, bright late January day, deep snow pack melting away at the edges. Oh, wait! It’s March! I’ve just finished reading Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. The “biographical” novel narrates the life of a Nigerian girl born with one foot in the physical world and one in the spirit world. As often happens to…
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Mediated
A snowy, sleety, rain-splattered sort of day more like late March than February. The birds, awaiting their turn at the feeder, call to one another between trees. There are fewer squirrels at the feeder as we finally resorted to purchasing some painfully hot pepper oil which Jennie added to the birdseed. The result has a…
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