Trauma and Neglect

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!

Trauma and Addiction: Reflections On My 38 Years

On June 15, 2021 I marked my 38th year of recovery from alcoholism. As is often the case I am stunned by the passing of the years, and also shocked to be

A Refugee Olympic Team

Regulation and Affiliation for the “Diaspora” For some reason I have long had a fascination with athlete biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Willie Mays, Arthur Ashe, Andre Agasse, even tennis star Alice Marble,

Too Much of Nothing: Spotlight on Neglect

“Now, too much of nothing can make a man feel ill at ease One man’s temper might rise while another man’s temper might freeze In the day of confession, we cannot mock

Waking Up to ACES – Neglect Edges into Awareness

The PTSD diagnosis only appeared in the DSM in 1980. To me that seems like an “augenblick” as my German mother used to say, the blink of an eye. I realize that

Unlocking – What the Pandemic Evokes About Neglect

It was March 16th, 2020 when the San Francisco Bay Area went into lockdown. That was the last time I was in my psychotherapy office. At the time, the mayor said it

Body Oriented Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Trauma

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 of trauma. From the start it was

The Essential Female Tragedy – Changing the Ending: Therapy with Mothers and Daughters of the Incest Family

“The loss of the daughter to the mother, the mother to the daughter, is the essential female tragedy.” – Adrienne Rich On a dark November afternoon, I received an unusual phone message

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