Are we really as rational as we think? What motivates us to choose a position and defend it? What frees us to choose a different one?

Is acceptance of suffering, injustice, and disappointment a good thing? How do cultural factors impact our relationship to that question and what can we learn from others?

What if the things you want most don’t actually reside in your own heart of hearts? Jacques Lacan’s radical psychology challenges us to see what happens when we stop trying to fix the permanent 'lack' inside us.

Later in his life, Abraham Maslow revised his famous hierarchy of needs to include self-transcendence above self-actualization. What does that mean for our vision a life well-lived?

How do we understand and deal with family estrangement, relational cutoff, and the general sense of separation we experience with others?

It is extremely common for men, particularly in mid-life, to be overwhelmed by guilt and regret as they take stock of their lives. How do we keep it from swallowing us so that we can move forward?

Let’s talk about the “male loneliness epidemic”, starting with how we experience loneliness and isolation (are they the same thing?) and how we address it in our own lives.

A summarization of the main ideas in The Will to Change by Bell Hooks, meant to drive reflection on how we think about, and discuss, the concept of “patriarchy”.

Intro to the theories of British psychiatrist, philosopher and neuroscientist, Iain McGilchrist, centered on how the kind of attention we pay to the world ends up shaping the world.

A helpful construct for visualizing our internal states, giving us a sense of how we can get back to self-regulation.

Some tools and strategies for gaining a more robust vocabulary to describe our emotions, and why that’s important.

The critical role emotions play, why denying them dooms men to immaturity, and how we can gain greater awareness.

Jungian psychoanalyst James Hollis’s idea of the temporary functional expressions of self we wear, and whether there’s a truer Self underneath.

An overview of the development and use of Genograms, including a multi-step guide.

A broad overview of the development of systems theories in psychology.

A broad overview of the development of systems theories in psychology.

A foundational look at the theory behind secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment patterns, taken from Sue Johnson’s Attachment Theory in Practice.

The fourth of Irvin Yalom’s “Four Main Concerns”, summarized from his book Existential Psychotherapy.

The third of Irvin Yalom’s “Four Main Concerns”, summarized from his book Existential Psychotherapy.

The second of Irvin Yalom’s “Four Main Concerns”, summarized from his book Existential Psychotherapy.