by Kourosh | Jun 4, 2007 | On Mind
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...
by Kourosh | Sep 10, 2006 | On Mind
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...
by Kourosh | May 17, 2006 | On Mind, On Music, On Technology
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...
by Kourosh | Mar 27, 2006 | On Mind, On Music
Improvisation is the process of developing an observing ego. This ego learns to be without censorship. Rather it observes the notes, phrases, and concepts emanating from within. The “within” is the unconscious. In the process, the ego, as a part of...
by Kourosh | Mar 26, 2006 | On Mind
Check out the latest Newsweek which has a nice article about Freud and Psychoanalysis today. There is a lot of misperception and misunderstanding of what psychoanalysis is. The article does a decent job of explaining what it is and how things have evolved.
