If a question is a prison cell door and each answer a key then we must ensure  to set ourselves free in the process of answering questions while not locking ourselves inside. Share

My experience both personal as an artist and clinical as an art therapist tells me that art making is a reasonably effective way to stop perseverating thoughts dead in their tracks. It does not seem likely that a therapist or any individual could engage the art making process in the midst of a panic attack [...]

The reason why the documentary information sharing style has become so popular is that it places the viewer at center stage like no other medium can. Hollywood put stars at center stage and if we paid the right amount, we were allowed to sit front row, maybe even center of the row. If we were [...]

Freud referred to a certain power of observation as ”hovering awareness”. It is a kind of self outside the main self which is somewhat more objective, more able to step back and take some distance and perspective on what the rest of the self is doing. In CBT, this behaviour is called self monitoring towards an [...]

One of the most fascinating things about our consciousness seems to me to be that we can witness the actual convergence of ideas socially. The same idea, occuring in two different people, worlds apart at roughly the same time. That is evidence of something greater than individualism. When i was 16 or so, i found [...]