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Increasing awareness of our sexual patterns can lead to greater freedom and wholeness.

Clinical case conceptualization can help or hinder your therapeutic experience.

We can learn to hold ourselves and others accountable without shame. The outcome is a new relationship.

Serotonin syndrome (aka serotonin toxicity) is often misunderstood, causing both unnecessary worry and missed warning signs.

The American right’s war on trans rights began with the loss of its war against LGBQ rights. The battle that marked the end of that war (for the time being) was when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. As demonizing LGBQ Americans was no longer a very effective political game, the right needed a new…

“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.” A handful of times a lifetime, if you are lucky, an experience opens a trapdoor in your psyche with its almost unbearable beauty and strangeness, its discomposing unlikeness to anything you have known before. Down, down you go into the depths of the unconscious, dark and…

“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.” Most people live with a great deal more suffering than is visible to even the most proximate and sensitive onlooker. Many have survived things both unimaginable and invisible to the outside world. This has been the case since the dawn of…

The unprecedented Europe-wide June heatwave has fanned the debate about the eco-credentials of air conditioning. Many believe that widespread adoption of the technology would be irresponsible, if not immoral, as the energy it burns would contribute to just the problem it is trying to mitigate.  Thinking clearly about the issue is made difficult by the…

Getting a resistant teen into therapy rarely works through better arguments. Two ideas borrowed from Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer a more effective way in.