As an artist, as well as a psychoanalyst/psychologist, I gave an interview exploring the intersection of my experience as a psychoanalysis and my creation of photographic art.  I find that, like a dream or like psychotherapy, art is an expression of unconscious processes.  Both therapists and artists find ways to welcome and stay connected to […]

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For many people, anxiety can be a continuous background rhythm to our everyday lives. Sometimes the drumbeat takes center stage and we are driven by these feelings and become dominated by an anxiety state of mind. We may begin to experience physical feelings (butterflies, sweating, GI symptoms) and/or anxious thoughts, feelings and perceptions that cause […]

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How do we first begin to experience love?  Perhaps as babies, as early psychoanalysts Fairbairn and Guntrip believed, the only way we could feel loved was by having our needs met.  The language of bodily transformation was the language of love.  Mommy feeds us, changes our diaper or picks us up and we feel satisfied. […]

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