"Just when we had girded ourselves against the sociopath next door, Burgo alerts us to the narcissist across the street. What a neighborhood!" - The New York Times Book Review
Installations in the ongoing series, "Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and What to Expect":
Part I: The First Session
Part II: The Early Weeks
Part III: The Transference Begins
Narcissistic Rage and the Failure of Empathy
About Online Counseling
Depression Symptoms: Making Sense of all the Online Resources
Shame and the Idealized False Self in Narcissism
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Portrait
Bipolar Disorder
My most recent article for The Atlantic — this one about splitting and hatred in politics — went live this morning. You can find it here.
If you came to the site expecting to find my latest post about gratitude and scarcity, I’ve taken it down. I think it came across in a way I didn’t intend, as if I were…
I had an email from another therapist this week, asking whether I’d written anything for professionals who work with people who suffer from features of borderline personality disorder. She had recently been “fired” by one…