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 […]
Mother
My Mother’s Death / My Father’s Resurrection
This morning my mother died. Her death followed a long struggle with several illnesses, all related to smoking during the fifty-three years of her marriage. She began at a time when smoking was fashionable and […]
Jed Diamond, PhD, LCSW – My Men’s Movement Part III: Why We Must Disengage from the Woman in Order to Learn to Love
[In this six-part feature, Jed Diamond examines his male experience through fatherhood, mental illness, and the Men’s Movement to explore what it means to be a more whole, mindful Man. | Part I: Fatherhood | Part II: My Female and […]
Lena A. Derhally – You’re Not Nervous: Anxiety, Worry and Control in Motherhood
A few weeks ago my nanny told me she enjoyed working for me because (in her own words), I’m “not nervous.” Of course, my first instinct was to give myself an inner high-five: “Oh yeahhh, […]
Nancy Marks – Printmarks of Our Family’s Journey
I adopted my daughter T. when she was six years old and I was thirty-eight. Her mother had been a client of mine at an AIDS service organization and, as her death approached, asked me if […]
Velleda C. Ceccoli, PhD – Our Internal World: And How It Is Populated
“Anomalies” by Julie Favreau Most of us are used to thinking about our life and how it progresses from the outside. We look at what we have accomplished and done, our family, our friends, our work, our […]
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 […]