The key issues in /a-midlife-transition for men are not fundamentally different from the issues that confront women in therapy, but there are clear differences in the way that men experience them. This difference in experience is tied up with the whole meaning of what it…
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…
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.…
Life is full of all sorts of things that need our concern -- that's the source of the meaning in our lives. However, concern can get distorted into anxiety so intense that it gets in the way of our genuine living.
One of the things that we have to accept is that a certain amount of anxiety is a perfectly normal part of life. We have to expect that we will have -- and we need -- some anxiety. But that is not the same as…
One kind of help for anxiety is to take the restless character of anxiety seriously, and to fully explore it, as /a-midlife-transition does. Restlessness is a very frequently described symptom of anxiety. There are many individual experiences of anxiety in which restlessness is prominent --…
When it comes to help for anxiety, /a-midlife-transition can change our understanding and enable healing in depth. Depth case studies provides unique help for anxiety by staying with the key question, "What might anxiety be trying to communicate about my life?
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.