The author wonders why this election has become so compelling... Read More »

An occasional scrapbook of observations and thoughts. Read More »

Don''t believe the hype. Read More »

It is largely fashionable today to bash the founder of psychotherapy, to either ignore or disregard him altogether, and easy to understand why so many have taken umbrage at many or most of his ideas, to think of him as autodidactic, misogynist, tyrannical, homophobic, and so forth. Read More »

A short poem Read More »

We are our own first and last client...certainly the client with which we have the longest relationship, with whom we wake up and go to sleep, and with whom we must make peace if we want to carry ourselves with any sort of integrity and/or calm. Read More »

There are no mistakes, only opportunities....I think I may have forgotten to practice beginner’s mind with a prospective client who came for a consultation a month or so ago. He was a very intelligent middle-aged man having marital difficulties, a man who’d never been to therapy before. Read More »

To return to the pressure of starting out in this profession… I’m wondering if perhaps “figuring it out” is the problem, at least partly: it places intellect too far above intuition. Read More »

The questions I’m referring to reflect a widening perspective that, while alleviating the initial anxiety, may actually open up the person for even more profound existential uncertainties. Read More »

Rogers speaks of not just empathy, but “accurate empathy”…meaning that the “in his/her shoes” understanding on the therapist’s part is genuine, and real – that you truly “get” the client, in a way that opens up the therapeutic space, without an agenda. Read More »