Trauma
Katrina and 9/11 Memorials: The Use of Group Art Therapy for Collective Trauma
Memorials as Group Art Therapy. Just blocks from my NYC art therapy office stands the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. In the 13 years it took to complete the memorial, there has been a lot of debate and criticism regarding what was planned, how long it was taking to complete, and how costly it was. One such piece of concern is expressed here by the New York Times' Michael Kimmelman,…
Apr 19, 2016
Depression or a broken spirit: Therapy for either
Therapy for depression, or.... Contemplate with me, for a moment, the significance of this fact: With the overwhelming dominance of the construct of depression, both in therapy offices and in everyday conversation, we have reduced an entire wing of the spectrum of emotional experiences to one word: Depressed.Language matters. As a therapist, when a patient presents seeking therapy for depression,…
Apr 06, 2016
Art as Therapy: The Shame to Pride Project
Art and art therapy. Artist Stephanie Calvert is using her own art as therapy in creating work using materials from her childhood home and I find it inspiring in my work as an art therapist. The Huffington Post's Katherine Brooks features Ms. Calvert in her piece, "One Daughter is Turning Her Hoarding Parents' Belongings into Beautiful Art". Stephanie's home from ages 11 to 18 years was not a…
Nov 17, 2015
Group Shaming in the Internet Age: The 21st Century Bystander Effect
The Effect of Groups on Our Capacity to Help. I distinctly remember the first time I learned about social psychology--I was sitting in a large auditorium when my dry Psychology 101 professor clicked his slideshow to an image of NYC in the 60's. As I doodled in the margins of my notebook, my professor began to speak about Kitty Genovese, a woman who was brutally attacked and killed near her home…
Sep 15, 2015The first rule of fight club: On trauma therapy and denial
Two kinds of trauma: trauma therapy and the problem of denial. We might say there are two sorts of trauma that present themselves in trauma therapy: trauma that is acknowledged, overtly expressed, laid bare; and trauma that is unacknowledged or ignored. In either instance, the pain of the trauma--the traumatic effect--is damaging. It leaves a sort of scar on the nervous system of the person…
Aug 24, 2015
PTSD, Trauma therapy and the problem with method
The United States military is one of the largest consumers of clinical psychology in the world and given that we are emerging from a period of sustained military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for PTSD therapy and trauma therapy among combat veterans is high. The military is, if nothing else, a master of efficiency and, unsurprisingly, has brought a so-called empirically-based…
Jul 24, 2015
"I'll betcha": Reclaiming "Crazy" in NYC Therapy
Is it crazy for a therapist to use the word crazy?. I need to begin with a qualifier: As an established therapist in NYC, some of you may be a bit thrown off by my casual use of the word crazy. I get it. It may not fit your expectation of a therapist. If you've stumbled upon here as someone seeking therapy in NYC or as a therapist meandering on the internet, you may hear this not as the call to…
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