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How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Missing and Withstanding Absence

How to Wait Better: The Psychology of Missing and Withstanding Absence

On “the capacity to bear frustration without turning against one’s needy self, or against the person one needs.”

Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth

Honing Life on the Edges of the Possible: Geologist Turned Psychoanalyst Ruth Allen on Boundaries and Limits as Frontiers of Transformation and Growth

“At almost every conceivable level of our imagining, it is impossible to create a change without a discontinuity, without a moment of not knowing who we are, or what we are going to become. Rupture precedes revolution.”

You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective

You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective

“The universe is as we find it and as we discover it within ourselves.”

Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship

“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.”

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