Posts Categorized: psychotherapy

When Compulsion Doesn’t Work

As well as being a therapist, I’m also a published author. I mostly work on novels, but have also published short fiction and personal essays. Speaking with an artist/friend a while back we agreed that, for those of us with a professional artistic practice, its not really a decision per se to create. It’s more… Read more »

The phone call

There’s a line that Martin Short gives to Steve Martin in the first season of the streaming mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building, in relation to their much younger accomplice, played by Selena Gomez. At one point Short says to Martin, like an admonition: “They don’t use the phone!“ There’s an issue with “the phone”…. Read more »