Healing the Mother Complex in Daughters and Sons

The other night I dreamed that my mother, dead for thirty years, returned. I hugged her as I might a long lost cousin. She said, “It’s my birthday. I’m 93.” Then she morphed into my half-sister who will be that age in a few months. This is a…

Narcissistic Fathers, Daughters and the Damage Done

I could romp through discussions of intimacy, loneliness and isolation, but when it came to daughters and the negative father complex, I sink down in my seat, fearful that the remarks by a Jungian psychologist at the Jung Center in New York…

Is This Why We Don’t Talk About Infertility?

Humans don’t do well with emotional discomfort of any kind. This has been proven…

Two Mothers Contemplate Childlessness

In a first-of-its-kind interview women who engaged in fertility…

The Psychology of the Political Trickster

For nearly a year, I’ve thought that a psychologist should be at the elbow of every journalist writing about Donald Trump, if only to help them better understand the blather that comes out of that man’s mouth. The blather sounds very much like a test…

A Psychology Primer: An Archetypal Look at Trump and Clinton

Four Jungian psychologists spent two hours deep in a webinar, “Turbulent Times — Is American Coming Undone,” for the Asheville, North Carolina Jung Center. Psychologists Murray Stein, Nancy Furlotti, Nathan Schwartz-Salant…

You Only Live Once

Have you already heard for the expression #YOLO? Maybe you did, perhaps you didn’t. In this article I’ll tell you all about…

How my dog Happy made me a truly happy person

I thought i rescued a dog but it turns out he rescued me!