The blog includes articles I have written over the last few years, as well as a weekly post where I share what’s on my mind, even if it’s an undeveloped idea that popped up when I was stirring a vat of cheese!
“In normal, optimally interactive dyads, only about 30% of their time together is actually spent in the affectively positive, mutually coordinated interactive state. The rest
In the past ten or so years of burgeoning progress, the growing subfield of traumatology has come to identify and elucidate much about the physiology
“The loss of the daughter to the mother, the mother to the daughter, is the essential female tragedy.” – Adrienne Rich On a dark November
“The brain is first and foremost an organ of action” – Roger Sperry, Nobel Prize winner, 1981 For those of us who work with the
It was almost two decades ago when I stumbled across a most remarkable video. In it, a circle of women, all naked; and their group
“Two country people were fishing in a river. As they fished and talked, they saw a child floating down the river dangerously close to the
Lately it is not uncommon for me to get an emotional phone call, where the breathless voice on the line says “I’m a sex addict!
Last month one of my client couples gave birth to a child. Always a joyous event, this birth had particular significance to me. When I
“Attachment is the fundamental drive in human beings. It is a drive that brings aggression and sexuality to its defense and to its enhancement, and
One of the astonishing things about entering my sixth decade, or what I fondly refer to as my “low six figures,” is hearing myself refer
