Humanity Archive
So many people dispensing advice – and I’m among them – suggest that job seekers develop their interpersonal skills, network more, talk with everybody they know; all in an attempt to increase the probability of increasing our likelihood of getting …
“Why do you want to work?” “I need to do something and I’m getting frustrated.” This is a question and answer that comes up relatively early in conversations that I have with people. While the question isn’t surprising, you might …
A phenomenon that happens often to many people I know may also have happened to you personally. This is when a job you once thought was the perfect job and you were thrilled to have it, becomes less appealing, less …
I’ve already got a second question for you, and this is only the opening line of the blog today; did you immediately start reading or did you stop and answer the question in the title of the blog itself? So …
I like to “joke” that I’m always right. It usually gets some appreciative laughs and eye rolls, and I do it to make a point. It’s a point about how ridiculous it really is that I say there’s no alternative …
Prior to January 1, 2014, the usually accepted estimate of the number of uninsured people in this country will be 48 million, or about 15 percent of the population. But on that day, the number will jump to 64 million …
For those of you who read this blog you know that our adoption experience ended tragically with our daughter, Casey’s, suicide in 2008. I chronicle the difficulties we had in raising her and the mysteries surrounding her sometimes-extreme behavior. Yet …
“Dealing with heterogeneous behavior patterns as a single type of behavior does nothing toward elucidating the pattern. And yet the understanding of such full scale patterns in real life is essential for understanding the behavior of persons.” (The Behavior of …
In 2012, I saw on display at SFMOMA Sam Durant’s “History never ends, I hate to bother you”: Photo of “History never ends, I hate to bother you,” by Sam Durant Sadie Coles HQ gave this explanation of the piece: “The show’s title …
From “The Red Book” Through his meticulous design of The Red Book, CG Jung interwove his experience of madness with the collective suffering of his era. Such syntheses are rare — and just what the current mental health field desperately …
