Gabor Mate has been widely quoted on trauma. As I write, his latest book (with his son Daniel) sits in English on my upstairs coffee table in Italy. It is called The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. I say “in English” because it is…

I’d like to address the clatter and hyper-frequency with which we — the therapists working in and interested in (and no doubt having as well) trauma — receive email notifications of yet another conference and series of workshops available online. There is nothing wrong with conferences. When Terry Real or…

It’s humbling to say the least, that my opinion of Prince Harry and his deserving the spot in the American (white perhaps) psyche that is so sympathetic and voyeuristic, turns out to come down to envy. My own that is. Prince Harry was indeed bullied as a child as it…

The absence of any evidence for such a plot does not deter conspiracy theorists. Collins English Dictionary Are the people telling us the lies about weapons of mass destruction, about the American quest and mission to bring democracy to the Middle East, conspiracy therapists? Are they war criminals, deciding that…

Thank you and though you're talking about Prince Harry--and why is he still a PRINCE???????, I've really appreciated Chris Rock on Meagan Markle. Okay it's hostile but not passive aggressive at the very least. So thank you and it's overdue.

This piece and I are fueled by the first 40 minutes of the Chris Rock Netflix standup comedy special, “Selective Outrage”, streaming as we speak. We are all enveloped in a haze of propaganda whether we like it or not. It is like systemic racism, which we breathe in no…

No amount of proof to the contrary satisfies the conspiracy theorists. One example of the use of “conspiracy therapists”, from the Cambridge Dictionary. So I’m thinking that many of the watchers of MSNBC, CNN and FOX News, have this in common, that it becomes hard to change our minds given factual information that is contrary to what we have been fed…

I had a knee jerk reaction earlier today that turned into a whole mind-body one, and an intense one at that. It is Black History Month, but then again there is never a great time to be politically incorrect, certainly when it comes to racism. I accept that I have…

How could Melissa have suggested this movie, “The Swimmers”? We were together for New Year’s Eve and that was her preference and request. Melissa had a fraught last year on many levels and I thought, that is I assumed that she would choose something uplifting to watch. …