A Son’s Vows to Love, Honor, and Obey Go Awry
My brother’s troubles began with my parent’s marriage. They knew each other for only one week when they married. Mother told me that she only agreed because she was twenty-five, an old maid. Dad was […]
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Myopia Road: Reflections on Painting and Therapy
Growing up on a road named Myopia always seemed fitting for my family since a myopic vision involves being able to see objects when things are close by, but having difficulty in seeing when objects […]
Thinking Beyond Sexual Identity
The labels that exist to describe us typically fall short of encompassing the fullness of human sexuality. Neither heterosexuality nor homosexuality are what they are cut out to be. For most of us, the specifics […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – Forbidden Desire: The Cost of Living Without Sex
Sexual denial never succeeds and sexual desire can never be buried. Why do some of us choose to live without sex? What is the emotional cost of sexual abstinence to parts of our lives? The secret life […]
Stanley Siegel, LCSW – Exquisite Unions: Final AIDS
[An excerpt from The Patient Who Cured His Therapist: And Other Stories of Unconventional Therapy by Psychology Tomorrow’s Editor-in-Chief Stanley Siegel] I was teaching family therapy at the University of California at Berkeley and working with the AIDS Project […]
Adam Neal – The Paranormal Closet
If experiencing the paranormal is strange, and what is strange is queer, is the paranormal queer? By any logic, yes. Yes, it is. Strange and queer are synonymous, are they not? If the impulse to […]