Original post made October 4, 2019 on WordPress I have been interested in masks for quite some time. It is a fitting subject: in a few short weeks children will trot gleefully from house to house wearing different masks in celebration of what, in my opinion, is the best holiday. But the masks I would like to talk about today are the ones we bear within our psyche: personas, protectors, managers – whatever you call them. They serve the purpose of keeping us safe from danger either real or perc...

Original post made October 4, 2019 on WordPress I have been interested in masks for quite some time. It is a fitting subject: in a few short weeks children will trot gleefully from house to house wearing different masks in celebration of what, in my opinion, is the best holiday. But the masks I would like to talk about today are the ones we bear within our psyche: personas, protectors, managers – whatever you call them. They serve the purpose of keeping us safe from danger either real or perc...

Original post made July 18, 2016 on WordPress “I think, therefore I am” is one of the greatest dictum of human experience. But although we don’t question that we think, can we question the knowledge we have about ourselves? Do we really know ourselves as well as we think we do? In the New York Times article entitled Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind, philosophy professor Alex Rosenberg questions this knowledge, asserting that “Our access to our own thoughts is just as indirect and fallible as ...

Original post made July 18, 2016 on WordPress “I think, therefore I am” is one of the greatest dictum of human experience. But although we don’t question that we think, can we question the knowledge we have about ourselves? Do we really know ourselves as well as we think we do? In the New York Times article entitled Why You Don’t Know Your Own Mind, philosophy professor Alex Rosenberg questions this knowledge, asserting that “Our access to our own thoughts is just as indirect and fallible as ...

Original post made September 18, 2020 on WordPress Dissociation is a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately. I first became interested in the phenomenon after I received training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing – a type of therapy most noted for the treatment of PTSD). Because dissociation can be common amongst individuals with childhood trauma, EMDR clinicians are trained to carefully screen for symptoms of dissociation before beginning this therapy with someone seeki...

Original post made September 18, 2020 on WordPress Dissociation is a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately. I first became interested in the phenomenon after I received training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing – a type of therapy most noted for the treatment of PTSD). Because dissociation can be common amongst individuals with childhood trauma, EMDR clinicians are trained to carefully screen for symptoms of dissociation before beginning this therapy with someone seeki...

Original post made May 23, 2016 on WordPress Have you ever wondered why people process information or emotional content differently? Why is it that some people are more logically-centered; focused on systems and rules, where others are more emotionally-centered; tuned in with the emotional reactions of others? Even further, “logical” and “emotional” personalities have their own subsets, as well. Last Friday, I had the opportunity to see Temple Grandin present at an annual lecture series at a ...

Original post made May 23, 2016 on WordPress Have you ever wondered why people process information or emotional content differently? Why is it that some people are more logically-centered; focused on systems and rules, where others are more emotionally-centered; tuned in with the emotional reactions of others? Even further, “logical” and “emotional” personalities have their own subsets, as well. Last Friday, I had the opportunity to see Temple Grandin present at an annual lecture series at a ...