In recent years, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on what are called “brief psychotherapies” by the therapeutic profession. The emphasis has been on providing very short courses of case studies to individuals, with an eye to providing concrete definable “results” with respect to…
New Year’s Eve and the New Year, with all its joy, and its bittersweet recollection of another year gone by, will soon be here. Another year of memories, and another year of living behind us, with everything that entails. For many, 2009 couldn’t end too soon. …
This week I spoke with a very large number of people who are confronting serious issues around setting boundaries at work. I don’t mean facing boundaries issues like sexual harassment, or things like that — although that’s common enough, unfortunately. I mean situations where people…
Can I get a witness? Some of you will recognize this phrase from R and B music; some of you may recognize it as a phrase used in the black church. But it's a phrase that has an awful lot to do with case studies.
Out here in suburbia, great pressure is often placed on people to “look good”. People feel all kinds of pressure to keep their image in the finest order. We get the message that it’s important to keep your grass well-cut and your garden well-manicured.…
Here’s a reflection-provoking quote from Jung on how we tend to see other people. “Everybody thinks that psychology is what he himself knows best — psychology is always his psychology, which he alone knows, and at the same time his psychology is everybody else’s psychology. Instinctively he…
Sometimes you read something in the newspaper or online that strikes you as just plain wrong. That was my reaction when I read a recent article in the Globe and Mail, 7,000,000,000 grains 7,000,000,000 stories. It seems that James Yarker, of the theatre collective Stan’s…
He woke up one day, and realized that he didn’t recognize his marriage, his partner or himself. He realized that things had gone on in a certain way for years and years, but that for a long time now, he had just been going through…
We live in a society and a time when this has become a burning question with which many men are struggling. The old understandings of maleness and masculine identity don’t work any more, but what are we supposed to put in their place? Recently, I attended a production…
In Part One on this subject, I looked at the connection between stress and our relationship to our own deepest being, the Self. In this post, I examine the way that stress plays out in our daily lives, and some possible ways in which we can…