I stuck around after my Dynamics of Addiction class today, hoping to get some insight into an intake I sat in on yesterday. We never got that far. In the course of conversation with other students who had stayed after, the instructor brought up Senator Craig and wondered about the what addictions this man might [...]

Classes started this week. My first class was on the dynamics of addiction. The first half is taught from a therapeutic point of view by the director of Odyssey House, one of the largest substance abuse treatment facilities in the state. The second half is taught from a medical point of view by a pharmacist. [...]

When H and I first split up, my neighbors across the street went out of their way to be nice to me. We both had girls about the same age and they spent a lot of time playing together. As they got older, they played in the same sports leagues went to the same schools [...]

Notwithstanding that some qualities are unique to a pyschoanalytically oriented approach, much of its healing potential is shared by therapists of all sorts. Although my attitude about this derives from personal experience, it is compatible with some very stringently conducted research. Analyzing the work of of Luborsky et al.(2000), Messer and Wampold (2002) observe that [...]