He felt special. He felt wild, unlike most bored big cats held cages. He didn’t pace. He was alert, taut. Visitors to the zoo observed an outward calm as he lay dreaming of the savanna and capturing prey. He felt full and nourished by his dreams. Somewhere within echoed a sensation of something missing. It [...]

Vicariousness
Vicariousness is a danger that therapists are exposed to every day. It grows insidiously until the therapist has no life of his own. Extracting satisfactions from the safety and comfort of living his life through other people, the therapist gradually fails to heed deterioration in his own work and relationships. In its late stages he [...]

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Grief
Jealousy
Idolatry
All have a common element: The tendency of the mind to make thought into property. Once thought becomes property it is subject to the workings of transactionalism and commerce. Ownership is subject to valuation operating according to the laws of supply and demand. The value of gold in the ground is worthless until it is [...]

1) Do you assume that if you ask a question there is an answer in the form you are expecting?
2) Do you assume the person you are asking the question of should respond in the manner that you deem appropriate to the question?
3) Can you conceive of the possibility that experience is required or that [...]

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I have been working as a prison psychiatrist for many years. Recently a prisoner arranged an appointment to see me. I couldn’t help but take notice of his multiple tattoos particularly the tears tattooed down the side of his face which usually represent decades spent in prison or the number of men he had killed. [...]

My father never liked liver. I never liked liver until well into my twenties when I tasted it. I discovered I liked liver. My mother never liked olives. I never liked olives until well into my twenties when I tasted them. I discovered………………I didn’t like olives

I visited friends in Perth Australia who lived in a nearby suburb. I decided to take a bus into town and was fortunate to gain the first seat with a clear view through the enormous windscreen. Sitting behind me was a woman with a child about three years old. The bus came upon a [...]

Today in a medical staff meeting at the prison where I work there was an exchange between the Pharm D. and a Correctional officer. The good doctor is not only a scientist but a Christian Minister from Brisbane, Australia. An inmate asked for a Bible to assuage his spiritual hunger and was refused. The DR/Minister [...]