Life, and the mind, are puzzles. “Trying to understand life” goes way back. The Chinese Taoists said life is a flow, a way, and the best life is one that follows the way. A little obscure, but somehow plausible. The Confucians basically said to be a good person, follow the rules, and do the right […]
A Proposal of Two Critical Questions for All Psychological Diagnosis I am now publishing a sequence of two books with Lexington Books. The first is A Democratic Mind: Psychiatry and Psychology with Fewer Meds and More Soul, and the second is Psychotherapy for A Democratic Mind: Treatment of Intimacy, Tragedy, Violence and Evil. Psychotherapy for […]