When I began medical school in 1965 I had a vague notion that I wanted to become a healer and a subconscious desire to help men. It soon became clear that the medical education at U.C. San Francisco was more limited than I had hoped and I transferred to U.C. Berkeley where I eventually received
Back in 2020 when Covid hit I was scared. I knew if I was ever infected by the virus, I would be at high risk of being hospitalized and even dying. I was in the high-risk group. I had lifelong breathing problems due to chronic asthma which began when I was a kid. I was
Part 2 – Trick or Treat In Part 1, I explored the work Dr. Maté and I have been doing over the last fifty years on developing new ways to understanding illness and healing. I described the importance of his new book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
Part 1 I recently wrote an article, “Traumatic Masculinity and Violence: Our Moonshot for Mankind Offers Hope to Humanity.” Among other important things I covered in the article, there was a section titled, “Trauma: The Root Cause of Violence and Other Social Ills.” I also discussed a powerful and important new book, The Myth
Part 1 I’ve been interested in depression for most of my life. When I was five years old my middle-aged father became increasingly depressed because he couldn’t make a living supporting his family. In despair, he took an overdose of sleeping pills. Fortunately, he didn’t die, but our lives were never the same. He was
When asked what he thought a psychologically healthy person should be able to do, the famed psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, answered, “to love and to work.” Two simple words, love and work. We all aspire to learn to do them well, but the truth is that too many of us fall short. Like many, I grew
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