Falling Into Invisible Wounds
Dan: I’ve fallen down three times this week. I am beginning to wonder. Some moments I think there must be something wrong with my brain or my knees or hip or balance. Or maybe I […]
Philosophical/Psychoanalytic
Listening Inside to the Pain of Life: A Session Excerpt
Psyche Singing M.E: “Wondering what you hear when you listen inside.” A.G: “When I listen inside? When I listen – I hear screaming.” M.E: “Does it ever stop?” A.G: “Right now I’m thinking I don’t listen […]
Three Problems with Dissociation
Bryan T. Reuther, PsyD In the minds of clinicians and researchers, the term ‘dissociation’ conjures up a variety of intriguing and controversial phenomena; it should therefore come as no surprise that some have complained that […]
Worlds Apart: Dissociation and Traumatic Temporality
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. Coined by Pierre Janet in his investigations of hysteria, the term dissociation has taken on a variety of not-always-compatible meanings and usages in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Donnel Stern (1997), for […]
Death, afterlife, and doomsday scenario: Why do we evade the extreme dangers of climate change?
Death, afterlife, and doomsday scenario: Why do we evade the extreme dangers of climate change? (A review of Samuel Scheffler’s Death and the Afterlife) Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. In a blog post of a year […]