In this short story, Rachel Newton tells a story of intergenerational guilt and the lengths one will go to for the sake of atonement.| The Lehrhaus
Interview with Terry Real, a nationally recognized family therapist.| The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Over the past decade, I have honed a new dialect—the language of psychoanalysis. Gradually, I find myself increasingly fluent in this language. Psychoanalysis, for better and worse, has shaped and molded my thinking. Yet, in its chiseling, some words confound my senses.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
For me, growing up in a fundamentalist, religious dictatorship like Pakistan, I was taught to live in fear of and hate our Indian neighbors who might attack us at any time. I was taught to believe in the supremacy of one religion above all others. I was taught that this religion needed our state to defend it and we, as Pakistanis, were the ultimate expression of the arc of history that inevitably bent toward humanity, united under one God.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
As I write, student activists across the United States are protesting our collective complicity in the rampant human rights abuses underway in Gaza, including mass starvation and the confirmed death of nearly eight thousand children, with thousands more likely lost and injured under the rubble.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
For me, growing up in a fundamentalist, religious dictatorship like Pakistan, I was taught to live in fear of and hate our Indian neighbors who might attack us at any time. I was taught to believe in the supremacy of one religion above all others. I was taught that this religion needed our state to defend it and we, as Pakistanis, were the ultimate expression of the arc of history that inevitably bent toward humanity, united under one God.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
This is the essay my therapist doesn’t want me to write. I wish that I could say that I don’t understand her concerns, but I do. She fears that it would place in the foreground something that most people who come to know me see only as a small part of me. It’s never been what defines me, so why run the risk of letting that happen now? I imagine she wants to protect me from being typecast as disabled and likely the recipient of all the associated projections that I’ve worked for years ...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Kubernetes contributor Chris Short recounts how the open source project, its community, and access to mental health resources through an employer likely saved his life while struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression.| Chris Short
Shari Appollon’s "My Mother’s Haiti" for ROOM 2.24 illustrates a kind of internal anguish children can experience when, from the start, belonging and not belonging are intertwined.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
As Freud taught, “looking back and in” is ribboned with unconscious resistance. Addressing the unintegrated and painful past of national trajectories, Jill Salberg looks at the grand-scale implications of this resistance in Fascism Amnesia: A Failure of Witnessing in ROOM 2.24.| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
By Ella “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.” ~Eckhart Tolle Eight years ago, I was very depressed. I wanted nothing more than to stop feeling this way […]| Westside DBT
By Annie Reneau “Run the dishwasher twice” might sound like strange mental health advice, but a viral post is proving that it’s actually quite helpful. Danielle Wunker, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor, shared a story on her Facebook page that is resonating with people who struggle with mental health issues. It originally came from an […]| Westside DBT