Wherever you go, there you are… On a quiet place on the island of Elba things are calm. I am calm, everything being relative. I am calm enough to go in and out of Gabor Mate’s book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts*, a book on addiction, on the need…

Editorially speaking, in the first person, I cannot see how “justice was served” in the Tree of Life Synagogue killings — how the verdict of death has anything to do with justice. Cynically speaking it seems like a way of Americans assuaging guilt about anti-Semitism that at points as been…

I know this is already very politically incorrect: we don’t often encourage our children — boys or girls — to play cowboys against Indians, as if the latter are always the bad guys. …

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…