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Are pure-hearted people more needy?
Years ago, I did a ten month internship, in a sheltered workshop for developmentally disabled adults. I was fairly new to the profession and a lot younger. Perhaps this is why I so I arrogantly assumed I already knew what I might contribute. Ten months later, I left, having been profoundly changed with regard to…
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Is there a name for being highly sensitive to the sound of dishes clanking?
Sarah, how would you feel if I told you, answering your question holds the key to changing the nature of how all talk therapies are practiced? How? By moving them from things based on “soft” science to things which are in the truest sense, evidence-based. Unfortunately, to properly explain these claims, I’d need far more…
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Why Do People Who Take One Psychology Class Think They Are Qualified to Diagnose People?
There is a time in child development when children live to ask, and hear answers to, natural “why” questions. During this time, parents are gods and children hear their answers as absolutes. Sadly, by the time these children enter third grade, they have projected this pattern onto out-in-the-world mommies and daddies. And by the time…
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Why is Sigmund Freud Considered Great When Most of His Theories Have Been Disproved?
I’m always amazed by how people who have never contributed in any way to a profession can feel entitled to claim other peoples’ work in this profession is right or wrong. What I mean is, like Jung, Adler, and Janet, Freud was a rare bird. He was a full-blown personality theorist AND at the same…
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Why Are Breakthroughs So Painful?
Thanks to the OP for posing such a thought provoking and important question which ironically, according to the “great me,” requires a breakthrough to understand. It certainly did in me. In fact, I’m not sure I can find the words to adequately answer this question. What I can say though is that it begins with…
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How Do You Rule a Diagnosis In or Out?
Arguably, Ashwin, understanding this question should be in the top five concepts for all those practicing in the medical / psychological professions. Being in the latter, my answer will focus on DSM-V diagnoses. Setting aside the myriad problems in the DSM’s design, the key to diagnosing lies in a single word. “Differential.” Here, the process…
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What are the Cornerstones of Psychological Practice?
Good Morning, George. Geez. What a tough question! Know I’ve thought about it for a quite a few days now. Why? Because I recently tried to put into words my thirty-plus years of experience on this subject. But even after writing 752 pages, I still found there was much I’d forgotten to address. More discomforting,…
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