The Psychology of Urban Planning; an interview with Andres Duany

“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. …

Growing up is all about accepting the reality of the human condition. All children are born needing and wanting someone to respond to them. Parents are the first responders and the shape and quality of their response will echo in the child’s pattern of relationships for the rest of their life. Most parents care deeply about how their responses shape their child. They want their child to grow up, to learn to love and to build relationships for themselves. This noble desire is fraught with many challenges. Early in a child’s life, most parents can and do anticipate what their child…

This is a free three part group therapy program for doing Jungian therapy, shadow work, and art therapy. The Shadow Work Program “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

As a society we hide children from the dying, and often even from the elderly; not allowing young people to understand this important stage in the life journey. We do not value the wisdom of the aged; we simply treat their cultural experience as out of date. It is our…

This article is a resource of for therapists. If you are not a therapists maybe check out this article about Brainspotting. Wait! If you are a therapist and don’t know what Brainspotting is, then watch this first! How do you Brainspot patients with severe dissociation? Brainspotting is one of the fastest ways to treat severe trauma and PTSD. However for severe dissociation the dissociative reaction may make Brainspotting impossible. …

Freud very nearly did not become a psychiatrist. He originally researched as a neurologist before moving into other disciplines. Freud’s journals document a tremendous amount of study in varied topics he saw as likely breakthroughs to bring him renown. Much of his early work was dedicated to the study of cocaine as a treatment for various medical conditions. Freud mentioned some of his preliminary theories on the use of cocaine for anesthesia to his colleague Karl Koller before going away on a trip. When Freud returned home Koller had already conducted an experiment using cocaine as a topical anesthetic for surgery on a frog’s eye, and became famous.

There are plenty of books and articles about how trauma works and how it effects the brain. Many of these books are written by doctors and scientists that explain how the pieces of the brain work together. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an…

There is a legend about how Alexander the Great was able to conquer in the East. When he entered the city of Gordium there was an enormous wagon so tightly tied with ropes that it could not budge. …