A Review of “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World”

“Range” by David Epstein is a meaty, research-driven, inductive study about learning, education and jobs. My first reaction after reading this book was that I must stop telling my young nephews, nieces and…

A Man and His Anima Dreams

In my experience, men don’t talk much about their dreams. Occasionally I share dreams with my brother over morning coffee. We usually concentrate on the language and architecture of the dream and not the psychology of it. I’ve enjoyed many discussions of dreams during sessions at…

Romania: Thirty Years After Communism

Thirty years ago this month Romania’s communist house of cards began to fold, culminating…

The Shadow Side of Technology

As early as 1934 Carl Jung warned that technology, as related to the development of consciousness in the human psyche, was advancing at such a rapid rate that man could not slow down and contemplate unconscious images, such as from dreams and revelries, allowing these images…

A Man’s Struggle with the Archetype of the Mother

This title came out of a very low-key conversation I had with my brother about our mother, an issue close to our hearts as we wait for the forsythia to bloom, announcing her birthday. My brother and I have daughters and granddaughters and have…

She Didn’t Have It Coming: Changing the Narrative in the Jack the Ripper and Other Famous Murder Cases

Freud, Jung and the Fictions that Heal

2014, thieves tried to steal the urn containing the ashes of Sigmund Freud and his wife located in a crematorium in north London, not far from where I was born. The urn, decorated with an image of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and revelry, dated from the 4th…

The Psychology and Politics of Projection

For the first three years of Donald’s Trump’s presidency, armchair analysis of the man by psychiatrists has been discouraged by the American Psychiatric Association which invokes the Goldwater Rule. This “rule” stipulates that it is unethical for…

To Escape Our Plastic Future, We Need to Get Back to the Garden

Once my friend offended me.

Personal insights on casual humiliation in friendship.