Posts published in “Winter 2018”

by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA (Presented at 2017 IFPE conference) Susan has six published books and over 70 articles (journal articles and edited book chapters.) Further information is available on her website at: www.kavaleradler.com  The Three Forms of…

by Rachel Saks, Psy.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychology, Chestnut Hill College. Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”  This quote rings true as an essential aspect of human existence. Narratives are…

By Susan G. Burland, Ph.D. PART 1: Trauma and acknowledging/witnessing truth You have stolen my ocean, my swiftness, my soar, Delivered me to the clutch of uprupturing earth And for what? The mouth still moves though the man cannot. –…

by Hanna Turken LP, BCD, LCSW The fifties could be the best of times or the worst of times.  In a country where youth is so valued, to be fifty and not accomplished in your love and in your work…

by Detelina Stoykova, M.A., M.A. The myth of Oedipus the King and the eponymous Oedipus complex has ignited our imagination with its mystifying power. As the myth has been retold and has endured through ancient times, so have its interpretations.…

By Cenk Cokuslu, LP, NCPsyA “Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror.” ~…

by Barbara Schapiro, Ph.D.   One of the most salient features of the unconscious, according to Freud, is the absence of time. By that he is referring to the linearity of chronological time.  In another sense, of course, the unconscious…

by Rachel Saks, Psy.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychology, Chestnut Hill College. Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”  This quote rings true as an essential aspect of human existence. Narratives are…