Knowing the Self

Feeling a lack of control over one’s own fate is arguably a large characteristic found in different types of mental anguish and suffering. Being able to understand the self is a method of gaining some of that control. Different types of therapies have their own...

An Unexpected Therapist

What makes a therapist? Certainly, there are different styles to every craft. But, there seem to be so many fundamentally different ways of functioning in the role of a therapist from psychoanalysis, to dialectical-behavioral, to interpersonal, among many others. Each...

Meditation and Free Association

And now for something completely different … Question: Was Freud’s method of creating psychoanalysis a meditation of free-assocation? Meditation As used by humanity for millennia, meditation has been a powerful tool and exercise. It begins with a focused...

The Use of Language and Interface

What is it about the online world that can so dramatically change a person’s experience of herself and the people around her? Is it the very language people use to communicate that carry these substantial effects on experience? In multi-lingual families, members...
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