In 2001, Angela Friederici invited me to spend a month at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig. I arrived speaking no German. That month taught me what it felt... Read more »
We do everything so incredibly fast these days. Eat fast, drink fast, and get our various meetings over as quickly as possible. But all this speed has a price. A friend of... Read more »
Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is a powerful expression of and for humanity. It’s not simply a classic of psychology or a memoir of survival. It’s built upon a deeper authority... Read more »
We occasionally talk about someone holding authority abusively, and almost never ask how authority can be held effectively and creatively. There is little consideration of how to optimize the exercise of authority.... Read more »
Twins of differing ages, from infants and children to adults, experience the loss of their twin in different ways. But always, no matter what, this is a devastating, highly sensitive and traumatic... Read more »
Psychodynamic theory asserts that symptoms do not happen by chance; symptoms are determined by contributing forces, including early childhood experiences, repressed sexual and aggressive drives, social, religious, and cultural dictates, and predisposing... Read more »
I love watching baseball. I especially love watching baseball across and within different cultures. Despite the sport’s universality—the game itself is played the same way globally—there are notable differences in the behaviors... Read more »
It was his first day on the job, and Rod was anxious at the staff meeting where his boss was about to introduce him. His gaze flitted around the conference room from... Read more »
Empathy, our capacity to feel the inner experience of another, underlies much of our behavior and the choices and decisions we make. It is a more powerful teacher than its cousins, sympathy... Read more »
In my opening address at the first International Conference on Existential Psychology held in Nanjing, China, in 2010, I stated, “Existential psychology began in the West, but it does not belong to... Read more »