Articles on Essays
Hearts and Minds: How We Think About Moral Dilemmas
Consider the following question: You are on a bridge above a runaway train quickly approaching a fork in the tracks. On the tracks extending to the left is a...
Book Review: How Does That Make You Feel?
How Does That Make You Feel? True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch is the ultimate tell-all book for our times. The people sharing secrets include psychotherapy...
Book Review: It’s Not Your Journey
A memoir, by nature, is an essay on a learned subject or an account written from personal knowledge. Most memoirs are picked up and read to understand a person,...
Book Review: Bad Feminist: Essays
The title of Roxane Gay’s New York Times bestseller is Bad Feminist. But you don’t have to be any kind of feminist, or even have any interest in feminism,...
Book Review: How Does That Make You Feel?
“We’re all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven’t been caught yet.” – Max Walker The therapeutic relationship is an unusual one....
Book Review: Pound for Pound
In Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman’s Recovery and the Shelter Dogs who Loved Her Back to Life, Kopp writes of her struggle with bulimia. Weaving together...
Book Review: Show Me Your Scars
What comes to mind when you think of the term mental illness? Do you think of individuals who are thriving, successful, independent, and happy? Or do you picture individuals...
Book Review: Why We Write About Ourselves
Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature offers everything a reader might wish for from twenty diverse...
My First Trip to the Psychiatrist
It seems that life is made up of a lot of different “firsts.” The first time you leave home, the first time you have sex, the first full-time job...
Quitting Therapy
Yesterday I quit therapy. This was a big decision; one I thought long and hard about. Psychotherapy has always been helpful, but I simply didn’t want to go anymore....
Eliminate Outdated Attitudes on Mental Health
Spring is a time for new beginnings. This year, let’s celebrate the season with a new approach to America’s mental health — one that will save Americans much shame...
Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
Not so very long ago, hardly anyone seemed to think deeply about whether to have kids. It was just what people did. Now, all that has changed. By 2004,...
December Festivals: A Celebration of Diversity
Companies spend millions of dollars on diversity training to help workers become more sensitive to each other’s cultures, traditions, and practices. School boards now regularly struggle with the tension...
Yoga Journey
I started going to yoga classes when I was a sophomore in college. This was in 1995, so the yoga craze had not yet begun. I didn’t know much...
My Trip to the ER: Attention Must Be Paid
I’m a psych patient. My primary diagnosis is bipolar II, but there’s a little anxiety, PTSD and other stuff mixed in. I’ve been dealing with it for decades. Sometimes...
