Plain Words from an Old Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

 So today marks the beginning of my new blog called, "Plain Words from an Old Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist." Why this title? Well, it allows me a lot of room to talk about anything and everything I have learned in 30 years of doing psychotherapy. My interests have been pastoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology and psychology, , paleoanthropology, psychoanalysis of religion, genealogy, history, philosophy, science and neuropsychoanalysis. And these have been just my major interests! I will also write here about my family, and life events, and my own personal journey. Being a neuropsychoanalytic therapist makes you interested in your patients' personal histories. It also makes you interested in your own. So, I guess I am saying I will be writing here about anything I wish to say ---whatever strikes my fancy, so to speak. So if one subject does not interest you just keep scrolling. Hopefully you will find one that does. Everything I write about in this Blog will be written for popular( non specialist) audiences. That means I am not going to use technical language on any regular basis, and if I do I will make sure I explain things in plain English. Thus the second meaning of my Blog name--I intend to write simply and clearly so that you will not only learn from, but enjoy reading my posts.

In my many years as a therapist-- first as a Certified Pastoral Counselor, then a Licensed Professional Counselor, and finally as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist influenced heavily by neuropsychoanalysis, I have seen over 1100 patients in psychotherapy, and supervised 16 student therapists. I am also a senoir citizen. So my age plus my experience have taught me that it is time to share some of this clinical and otherwise wisdom with others. So sit back, relax, and enjoy my blog, "Plain Words from an Old Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist." Please ask me questions!! Make comments!! Let me know who you are !! I want to know my readers. Thank you.