November 3 – 5, 2023 There used to be no house, hardly a room, in which someone had not once died. (Rose, 2021, p. 4) The majority of Covid deaths have occurred in the isolation of the hospital room, not in a home.  We– none of us — are allowed to touch the dying for […]

February 2-4, 2024 Many, curious about their ancestry, turn to 23 and Me searching for answers to the complicated question, “Who am I?” Yet, what happens when a mere globule of saliva, the extraction of DNA strands from cells, brings into question a person’s basic identity? How do we, as therapists and writers, begin to consider the […]

May 3, 2024 Freud understood the power of stories, captivating the world with his case histories of Dora, Little Hans, the Rat Man and the Wolf Man. Stories fire the imagination. Yet over the years, psychoanalytic writing grew obscure, bogged down in complicated jargon and theory. Writers utilize psychoanalytic ideas not only to fully develop […]