Reflections on Psychiatry, Therapy, and Mental Health

We will be posting quirky or surprising images once monthly on our home page that nevertheless point in a serious way to important themes...

It is generally my habit to approach trauma memoirs with some caution. Many are organized around a familiar narrative: an account of cruelty, followed by a hard-won assertion of resilience. Such stories can be powerful and important, but they often invite the reader into a relatively clear moral landscape of victimization and survival. A New York Times review suggested this book was special in that the author presented herself as searching for meaning. As a student of psych

"It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality." -D. Winnicott The unexpected sometimes happens in a conversation, a spark of creative energy, as if there is borrowed energy between the parties that increases the potential for original thought. The other day at the market I ran across an acquaintance with whom I have had many friendly exchanges about psychotherapy. Though my friend has a compli