Every client who comes into my office has a body. There are no exceptions. Most sort of live in their body, some just visit now and again. For some it is just a convenient vehicle to schlep around their minds. For others it’s a place they call home. I primarily see adults. Every adult I [...]
Mindfulness is more than the cultivation of moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness. More accurately, mindfulness organically combines cognitive stability with emotional regulation to produce a stable awareness of experience and, as such, reduces reactivity and increases openness. The question for psychotherapists is “what gets in the way of developing mindfulness and mindful awareness?” What is frequently missing from clinical trainings [...]
Conceptual Hygiene, what a concept. Do your conceptual frameworks floss before bed? Do you change the models you hold most dear like you change your clothes? Do you claim your perspective to be eclectic because you have commitment issues? Has your EMDR protocol met your psychodynamic model in the resonate field of intersubjective relations while [...]
Twenty-four years ago I pondered how the concept of “openness to experience” could be leveraged to support the emotional healing of adult children of alcoholics. I searched the literature and discovered an “openness to experience” scale that I integrated into the analytic structure of my dissertation research. I treated “openness to experience” as an indicator [...]
We are witnessing the beginnings of a paradigm shift in gender relations that has the potential to be culturally transformative and liberating. Unfortunately, freedom and safety come at a price, and the price we pay, as illustrated by the current challenges to sexual misbehavior, is a painful one – long overdue yet promising rewards beyond [...]