Positive Psychology

I collect blank books. When I see one that I like, I buy it, even though I have no specific or immediate use for it in mind. Then when the need for a journal arises, I go through my stash and select one that is apropos. My youngest child, YoYo, was sent home from college…

It is September, a season of new beginnings, the initiation of a fresh cycle. We just celebrated Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The children went back to school, the summer is waning and it’s getting dark earlier. Autumn is at the door. September is a time linked in my mind with the ancient mythic…

This week I saw the film “A Dangerous Method” about the relationship between two icons of psychoanalysis, Freud and Jung. Both men were geniuses and both very flawed as human beings. Freud’s intellectual approach to his colleagues was “my way or the highway”,  and Jung had sex with several of his patients.  I did not…