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SubText Consultations & Writer’s Clinic
There are times in every writer’s work when we dread facing the emptiness of the blank screen or page, when the words run dry, when the characters we have created turn against us, behaving in ways...
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Writers Consultations vs Psychotherapy
We’ve been asked a few times to describe the differences between our writing consultations and psychotherapy: 1) When writers who are blocked contact us, we explore the structures, rituals, habits,...
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Dormant
whatashrinkthinks:This is a piece I wrote for What a Shrink Thinks – that in many ways grew out of my work with writers and artists. We need to first assess the function of fallow periods and block,...
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One Large Bottle
I’ve been thinking about writing, about being a writer, about writing books, about how and why people write – the professional and psychological functions and processes of writing – and how each...
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Keeping Secrets
This piece was previously published at my primary blog: What a Shrink Thinks, as well as by Psychology Tomorrow magazine. Kalli was the secret-keeper of Maldinga. Every day the people of Maldinga...
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Small Things
What follows is the eulogy that I gave for a beloved friend, Ellie Conant. I have never written a eulogy before – and I hope never to have to do so for a young person ever again. I post it here, so...
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On Leaving Gladstone’s Library
How do I write about writing without talking about what I am writing about? I don’t mean to be cryptic, I don’t mean to build suspense or be tantalizing – because the final product, if there ever...
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Safe House
The recent discourse regarding amnesty and immigration has turned so ugly, and fills me with grief and rage for the extraordinary men and women and children I have known who have lived in the U.S....
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RSVP
Artwork: The Dreamer, by Wonsook Kim I was recently asked to share my story at the Korean American Story Gala, where they kindly honored me with their Trailblazer award. I didn’t respond to their kind...
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Seedlings
Each year I plant seedlings. I receive them in bright shiny envelopes printed with colorful images of abundant harvests, airbrushed and unreal. The perfect tomato. A bushel of turnips with dark...
View ArticleOn Watching Battle of the Sexes
It took me a week or so of nudging: “Hey, you wanna go see Battle of the Sexes with me hon?” “Nah, not really… can’t we just rent Wonder Woman again?” I really wanted at least one of my kids to come...
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Perhaps I am an alien – or more likely, just experiencing alienation, again. But I watch our culture’s primal death denial play out so constantly, so strangely, in such peculiar ways – and so few seem...
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A Beautiful Picture
(photo by Ellie Conant) In some patients who had turned away from their mother in dislike or hate, or used some other mechanism to get away from her, I have found that there existed in their minds...
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