Negative mood and affect are resistance to what is. They are us saying, “No! I cannot tolerate this! I will not tolerate this!” It is not the thing itself that makes us depressed or anxious. It is our resistant relationship to it. Simply put, it is our resistance to accepting that it is. It is this fight that gets somaticized … Read More
East Meets West
There appears to be a dialectic in the relationship between the tenets of Buddhism and the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy experience. But is there really? Fundamental to Buddhist philosophy is the concept of non-self, that is, there is no permanent, unchanging entity that constitutes a self, there is no definitive essence of self. Yet in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, we expend a great deal … Read More