Hyman Spotnitz, M.D. – The Talking “Cure”: When Is Therapy Over?
A guy walks into a therapist’s office – sadly, this is no joke – and says, “I just read a piece in The New York Times, and I’ve got some questions: What do you know […]
April 2013
Velleda C. Ceccoli, PhD – On Surrendering and Letting Go
What does it take to let go in our lives? To allow for loss – of a loved one, a cherished object, a known and familiar feeling or experience. How do we go about surrendering […]
Zoe Greenberg – The Studio, Omega: Two Poems
The last letter of the Greek alphabet, in Christianity especially it is a symbol of the end and of the perfection of the world. Tielhard de Chardin [in his theory of evolution] called the goal […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – Your Brain on Sex: An Introduction
If you’re like most of us, the subject of sex makes you at least a little uneasy, if not completely uncomfortable. Sex is shrouded in so much mystery and secrecy and considered so personal that […]
Bethany Schneider – On Secrecy and the Writing of Time Travel Novels
I’m the youngest of four children, and we were raised in a small house. There really weren’t any secrets between us, or at least none that I knew of. My father was a minister and […]
Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. – Large-Group Identity and Post-Traumatic Flocking
Paraphrasing Erik Erikson’s (1950) statement about personal identity, I use the term large-group identity to refer to a large group that shares a permanent sense of sameness while also sharing certain similar characteristics with other […]
Alyssa K. Siegel, MS, LPC – Empty Nesting
For two months, I watched a bird build a nest on a wooden beam over the entrance of the building where I live. It’s an old building, built in 1906 as part of the “American” […]
Velleda C. Ceccoli PhD – On Seismic Activity: And the Disruption of the Self
In my work as a psychoanalyst I spend much of my time in areas of experience that tend to be de-stabilizing to our sense of personal integrity and unity. I am speaking here of those […]
Brian Fernandes-Halloran – Riding North to Cabo Delgado
I have found that in the process of recreating my memories in the form of assemblage that I am changing my memories. Following some of the principles of psychologist Elizabeth Loftus’ “misinformation effect”, I am […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – A Dangerous Method: Can Sex Restore Mental Health?
A Dangerous Method Trailer from Transmission Films on Vimeo. The film A Dangerous Method tells the story of the complex relationship between Sigmund Freud and his much younger heir-apparent, Carl Jung, both early founders […]