Over the years I have had occasion to consult with a variety of individuals who entered psychotherapy because of what they described as unbearable ambivalences or contradictions in their mental life. A man who had been completely devoted to his aging father was distressed by daydreams in which he took pleasure in anticipating his father’s death. A […]
Read MoreThe Talmud teaches that gossip is like a three pronged tongue which kills three people: the person who says it, the person who listens to it, and the person about whom it is said. So strong is the condemnation of gossip and slander in Jewish tradition that the founder of the chasidic movement, the great […]
Read MoreHow has Kabbalah influenced your practice as a psychotherapist? There have been many influences on my practice as a psychotherapist, including Freud and Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Maslow, Lacan, Winnicott, Bion, Rogers, Yalom, as well as my reading of the philosophers Hegel, Buber, Wittgenstein and Derrida, to name just a few. It was only after I had […]
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