The dream music was delivered in the alto range
By what sounded like a small chorus of sopranos,
Singing a line from the Bruce Springsteen song,
“Hungry Heart,” decorating my dream space
I was at my local polling place for a recent New York election and the poll worker asked me for my address. She was already holding my voting address card so I knew the request was pro forma. But for some reason, perhaps as a joke, I responded: 32A the Broadway, Crouch End, London, N8, my…
It was another tidy Saturday morning, Zoom style
At the Jung Foundation in New York City
Where the instructor, a psychologist, will discuss her book
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…
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…
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…
When growing up in England, I would always give up meat for Lent. And most of the rest of the year! In post-World War II London, ration books were still being issued more than a decade after the war, almost guaranteeing our waists remained…
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…
When I was younger, full of myself, and wanting to impress my colleagues with my budding interest in archetypal psychology, I suggested to attendees at a strategic planning session for our media company that the chairman’s wife should assume the role of corporate gypsy…
A year ago, I published “Chanting the Feminine Down: A Psychological, Religious and Historical Novel,” about a Bronx woman’s search for the feminine in her Catholic tradition. Colette is a graduate student at a Jesuit college in the Bronx. Prompted by personal…