I am working on a book proposal on spirituality in psychotherapy. There are many books on that subject these days so, why write another one? I suppose it’s because the subject has been part of me for ...
Recently Thomas Plante e-mailed me to remind me of a couple of chapters I am providing for his three-volume project, ‘Abnormal Psychology Through the Ages’. Dr Plante is a professor at Santa Clara Uni...
A little over a week ago I watched the Whitney Houston funeral. They called it a “homegoing”. I think I did okay really until R Kelly started to sing. He sang “I Look To You”. He pointed up. It comple...
I know that challenge leads to hard work and that hard work produces results. People who expect to be given all the good things in life just because they were born to privilege or come from a certain ...
As often happens when I find myself outside, say at the beach, and there is time for thinking, I start contemplating various matters. This last Sunday my wife and I went to “church” at Warwick Long Ba...
Authenticity is being on the outside what you know of yourself on the inside. It is being true to oneself. It is speaking your truth as you know it. One can be authentic by holding back what one knows...
My children grew up for the first part of their childhoods as the pastor’s kids. Two out of three did okay with that, but my younger son, the middle child, did not.
He is an extremely intelligent and...
For all those moviegoers, this is a spoiler notice. I am going to talk somewhat about a current movie that is out and playing at the Neptune Theatre: ‘War Horse'.
Last night my wife and I drove out to...
In the field of psychotherapy any given clinician, at any given moment in the process, can find him or herself concerned with the way someone is thinking, feeling, or doing. In technical terms cogniti...
To whom much has been given will much be expected. Those who are teachers incur a greater judgment, and that is because of the great responsibility teachers and leaders have to take care of people, no...
