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Category Archives: Mental health and wellbeing
Underneath today’s blackened skies, we are bleeding, but this bleeding isn’t the kind of wound that desires to be cured, bandaged or sanitized away into oblivion. This bleeding is a sign of gushing fertility. It is a ‘menstrual wound’ – without a ‘solution’; and it is a message to slow down, to enter into the …Continue Reading >>>
You are not ‘normal’ or ‘ordinary’ – such ‘things’ only exist in lazy metaphors and fading myths. You are not ordinary; you are a raging festival of drunken light, you are thunder in a bottle, lightening in a brushstroke, echoes of myths and solemn songs too faint to hear – too wondrous to dance to. …Continue Reading >>>
The DSM-5 is out. For those of you who don’t know what that is, the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders) is the world’s foremost classification of mental illnesses – the psychotherapist’s ‘bible’; the greatest tool in a shrink’s utility belt, if you will. Over the years, new editions have been published, which supposedly …Continue Reading >>>
I began to grow suspicious of my practice as a psychotherapist when I, weary and disenchanted, reflectively came to terms with the silent imperative of my clinical training: to fix the broken ‘other’ while maintaining a professional distance from his messiness. As I sat, in countless sessions, listening to the deep voices from the fractures …Continue Reading >>>