Yet, people often find, as they start to tell their stories in individual case studies, that the real course of their lives is not nearly as straightforward, simple or consistent as they expected. It often seems to have much more of a spiral or multi-spiral…
"Nietzsche has expressed it very beautifully: 'You shall become friends of the immediate things.' And the immediate things are this earth, this life. For quite long enough our ancestors, and we ourselves, have been taught that this life is not the real thing, that it…
There are many people who genuinely don't have parents. Some actually don't have living parents. Others, many more, live the wound of profound abandonment, due to parental apathy, abuse or fundamental rejection. And, all of us, in the process of individuation, will at times partake…
Since 1952, the APA's Diagnostic Statistical Manual [DSM] has been key to psychiatry and psychology in North America, and has had a profound influence on much individual case studies. Yet, with the upcoming release of version 5 ["DSM-5"] the validity and scientific authority of this…
In individual case studies for workaholism, it's a matter of key importance to understand what it is in the person as a whole that underlies this dangerous and destructive pattern of behaviour. As with almost everything in case studies, we can predict that this addictive…
Individual case studies needs to understand as much as possible about how workaholism can possess and consume the lives of individuals. If we take workaholism seriously as a form of addiction, what does that imply for the way we look at compulsive working?
In my clinical practice in individual case studies in an affluent suburb, workaholism is one of the more common issues. What is workaholism? The simple answer is "a consistent and compulsive addiction to working too much." And certainly long hours are characteristic of the workaholic.…
On some level, many of us do actually expect some kind of renewal at this time of year. The expectation of renewal is part of our being, as it was for our ancestors thousands of years ago. ...But what kind of renewal?
The yearning for real, meaningful experiences around the holidays actually runs quite deep.... We fill the holidays with kitschy symbols and images of Christmas in our culture, and we also fill up the holidays with extravagant gifts, which can easily pre-occupy us during this period.…
Does gift-giving create holiday stress for you? Well if so, you're in good company. Anthropology tells us that gift-giving is a near-universal practice through the history of human cultures. Gift-giving -- and especially exchange of gifts -- is immensely significant.