Since ancient times, cultures across the world have understood that human suffering can have psychological causes. At its core, psychotherapy is working with another person to help identify and ...

"What makes them defense [mechanisms] is not that they protect you from pain—they don't, clearly. They suck at doing this, look around. The purpose of defense mechanisms is to stop you from changing." ...

Certain ways of my own being have proven to move therapy into a more genuine, open and emotional experience for my patients and myself. The more that people feel that they can let themselves go and be ...