Reflections on Psychiatry, Therapy, and Mental Health

It is difficult to make the case that there is anything good about loss, for loss creates a wound. There is, however, something we might call, 'good healing.' Let's first bring our attention to the concept of loss. It can be said that loss is built into the fabric of life. We lose our childhood, and eventually our parents. If we live long enough we will lose our spouses and many friends. Such losses are an inevitable part of the cycle of life. Of course there are also br

The little fellow above is an American Caesar Mushroom that I met in the forest before the pandemic started. She is considered a choice edible, and often is consumed raw with a little olive oil and balsamic. Even more striking than her taste is her beauty. I was attracted to the forest because of mushrooms, but once in the forest and familiar with its ambience, I began to hear people refer to forest wandering as, 'forest bathing,' and I began to realize that I was not the

Future discounting, also often referred to as temporal discounting, is a curious behavior in which all of us to a degree value a thing in...