Is a patient’s distress predominantly rooted in their personality or in the cultural milieu, or both? There has been a tendency to separate the psyche and the social throughout the […]

If deep and enduring psychodynamic change is the ultimate goal of treatment, then periodically juxtaposing seemingly contradictory “forces” (Hegel’s thesis and antithesis) will eventually jump-start the patient’s “adaptive recovery” by […]

Michael J. Diamond, PhD, FIPA In this two-hour presentation, Dr. Diamond will examine larger social and cultural factors at play during today’s perilous times. He describes destructive populism and group […]