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Mindfulness
Michael Schreiner | November 22, 2012Give Thanks
Thanksgiving is a great opportunity to consciously take time to appreciate your life. We’ve written in several contexts...
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Individual Counseling
Michael Schreiner | November 21, 2012Why So Serious In Counseling
People thinking about going to counseling often have a preconceived notion that the therapy process will be a...
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Narrative Therapy
Michael Schreiner | November 20, 2012Interest
The way we think about and employ words can tell us a great deal about our culture. Often...
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Narrative Therapy
Michael Schreiner | November 20, 2012Person First Language
An essential step in moving towards a just world is to start using person first language in our...
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Psychoanalysis
Michael Schreiner | November 19, 2012Compassion From A Psychoanalytic Point Of View
Whether you are a hardened criminal or the next Mother Theresa you have surely felt authentic compassion for...
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Existential Psychology
Michael Schreiner | November 17, 2012Dialectics Of Regret
There is an idea I often discuss with people I see in therapy and it uses dialectics to...
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Mindfulness
Michael Schreiner | November 16, 2012Ambivalence
It is exceedingly difficult for us here in the West to understand ambivalence or accept its reality in...
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Anorexia
Michael Schreiner | November 15, 2012Anorexia And Western Culture
We hardly need to talk about how our insane culture promotes and even glorifies unattainable levels of thinness....
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Parenting
Michael Schreiner | November 13, 2012Narcissistic Parenting
Imagine a mother in her early thirties and her ten year old son at a small noodle shop...
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Anorexia
Michael Schreiner | November 8, 2012Anorexia and Neurosis
The conditions that lead to the development of a character neurosis are similar to those that lead to...