I’ll never forget a moment in a wildlife program about Antarctic penguins – I think it was a David Attenborough series. There were two little penguin parents and a penguin chick. Then, suddenly, there wasn’t. The chick fell into a crack in the ice. The little guy squeaked for all he was worth, the parents [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Call of the Wild
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged AboveTheLaw.com, Alt Transport, Australia, baby penguin, Breaking Media, David Attenborough, Dealbreaker, Fashionista, gazelles, Going Concern, lion, making partner on January 26, 2011 | 45 Comments »
The ex from hell
Posted in AskThePeople'sTherapistSeries, tagged boundaries, confidentiality, Group therapy, psychotherapy, trust on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An intriguing question from “A”: My boyfriend’s ex has gone through therapy one on one and in a group setting. She now thinks she can diagnose and help anyone. In her mind she is “helping” but in reality she is being intrusive, causing more problems, trying to find out secrets. I see this as someone who is in [...]
Your Dark Lord
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged arrogance, Blackberry, Harry Potter, horcrux, J.K. Rowling, narcissism, partner, Voldemort on January 19, 2011 | 31 Comments »
I was chuckling with a client the other day about the insanity of trying to please a partner with a piece of written work. The trick, she said – I’ve heard this before – is to adopt the voice of the partner. That’s what he wants – something that sounds like him. It doesn’t matter [...]
Work/Life Whatever and Ten Missing Minutes of Tape
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged ABA Journal, feminist, Gloria Steinem, homophobia, podcast, pregnancy, Richard Nixon, work/life balance on January 12, 2011 | 33 Comments »
I did a podcast a while back with the American Bar Association Journal. The topic was “work/life balance.” You can listen to it here. It was a weird experience – like living on another planet. I was the sole male. The other panelists and the moderator were women. That’s fine, but somehow, faced with the [...]
Another coming out process
Posted in Radio, tagged disclosure, Discrimination, HIV, HIV status, Senator Tom Duane, Thomas Duane on January 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This month “The Alternative” with Terry LeGrand celebrated its one year anniversary. Congratulations, Terry! (And congrats to his technician and sidekick, Andrew Holinsky, too!) For the anniversary show, we talked about a good New Year’s resolution for every LGBT person – coming out of the closet – but with a twist. For many in our [...]
It’s only chemical
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged amygdala, brain, cortex, depression, endorphins, neural pathways, neurons, psychiatric drugs, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy on January 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I get asked this all the time: “What if it’s only chemical?” Good question. Why talk to a therapist if you can take a pill and be done with it? Freud was intrigued by the possibility. According to Peter Gay, in Freud’s late work, “Outline of Psychoanalysis:” “[he] speculated that the time might come when [...]
2010 in review
Posted in About This Site, tagged site statistics on January 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 240,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at [...]
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