Sitemap - 2025 - DocTalk, Explorations in Psychotherapy
Dr. Edith Eger, The Gift Hidden in Pain
To Err Is Human: Reflections on Anger, Forgiveness, and Family
Why I Might Forget That I Am I: A Reflection on Santayana and the Search for Self
Why Does Allan write these essays? A Letter About Myself
The Healing Touch of Nature: Reflections on Biophilia
Begin While You Can: A Letter to the Dreamers
Through the Flames of Injustice
The Quiet Sadness and Memory of My Late Wife
We All Begin and End the Same: A Universal Truth
The Narrow Bridge: Walking Without Fear
From Chalkboards to Compassion: A Teacher’s Journey Through Time
The Courage to Keep Living Fully
Trials, Tribulations and Phsyical Injury and Pain
The Battle for Place: Why We Become So Territorial
"There is Nothing so Stable as Change"
The Slow Boil: Living Through Frustration
To Love, Not to Have: What Erich Fromm Taught Us
The Harvest Moon and the Natural Beauty in the World
The Government Shut Down and the Fracturing of Conscience
The Courage to Make Changes at Age 83
When Sacred Spaces Bleed: A Call for Unity in a Fractured Land
An Era of Disinformation: The Fog of Falsehood.
The Dream About Feeling Helpless
Teen Suicide and Depression in the United States
Artificial Intelligence(AI), Between Promise and Peril: Some Thoughts About the Future
Forgotten Older Generations: A Plea for Honoring Our Elders
The Gift of True Understanding
A Return to Values: What Our Children Deserve
The Fragile Nature of Science in America
Like a Strong Tree: Rooted in Resilience, Reaching Toward Hope
When Self-Hatred Speaks: From Groucho to Generational Wounds
When Comfort Misses The Mark: What Not To Say to the Grieving
A Time for Mourning, A Call to Conscience
What Is Good? A Search for Kindness in Troubled Times
The Givens of Existence: A Reflection on the Questions That Stay With Us
Ode to a Butterfly: A Wish for Freedom in the Autumn of Life
Why Do Women Stay with Cold-Hearted or Abusive Men?
Living with the Awareness of Aging and Memory Loss
Hearing Loss and the Decline of the Mind
The Peril of Self-Righteousness and Narcissism
Revisiting Responsibility: Mental Illness, Crime, and Public Safety
When Ambition Gets Out of Control
Crime and Violence, Stop Blaming the Mentally Ill
Finding the Right Path: Reflections on Values and Personal, and Fulfillment
What do you see? The Puzzle of Perception
"Good As The Best and Better Than The Rest." The Wisdom of Anne
Why Did I Come in Here? The Doorway Effect
"A Light in the Darkness: How Lisa and David Led Me to a Life of Healing"
You Are Never Too Old to Learn
A Reflection on Finding Peace in a Troubled World
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Johnathan Rauch
Does Faith Reduce Violence? A Question Without Simple Answers
Defending Science in an Age of Mistrust
The Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes, A Time to Rend, A Time to Sew
July and August Were Like no Others
Our Kids Are in Trouble: The Blue Screen of Addiction
Embrace the Moment, We Cannot Know the Future
Social Anxiety Disorder, Living Behind the Wall
Anger Turned in On The Self is Depression
From Ignorance to Fear and Violence, A Path We Must Learn to Leave Behind
The Danger of Dehumanization and Hatred
The Light Within Us: Fear, and the Brighter Truth About Humanity
My Father Was Absent and the Father I became
Aging and Creativity: The Voice That Time Revealed
Aging, Balance and Accidents: Part 1
Under the Boardwalk: Summer in the City
Elders Among Us: Seeing Age with New Eyes
Grief, Faith and the Human Heart
Seeing Clearly in a Time of Disinformation and Lies
Memorial Day: A Solemn Day of Remembrance in the United States
Social Media and the Wandering Mind of ADHD
The Day the Car Keys Disappeared
The Dangerous Allure of Authoritarianism and the Meaning of Democracy
The Quiet Light of Being Spiritual
The Frog Prince and the Judgment We All Must Stop Making
A Nation on Edge: Understanding the Rise of Anxiety and Anger in America
A Celebration of Family, More Than Just Mother's Day
Living While The Boat Still Sails
The Journey is Filled With Obstacles
The Restless Mind: Living with ADHD Before
Step on a Crack and Other Ways We Tried Not to Doom Ourselves
The Meaning of Teeth In Our Lives
'Tis Better to Have Love and Lost Than Never to Have Loved At All,' Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Music That Never Leaves Me
The Spark That Never Fades: A Life of Wonder and Curiosity
I Still Believe In Family Life
When We Finally Listen: What Changes in Us and Between Us
Growing Up in the Storm: How Angry Families Shape Children and Adults
Now That I'm Listening I Finally Understand
The Quiet Heart of America: Hope and Beauty in Appalachian Spring
Pictured Memories as Our Minds Wander Back
The Quiet Meaning of a Life: Thoughts on The Novel, "Stoner" and My Own Journey”
We Must Find Our Way Back to Nature
What a Father Means to a Child
Still Here: Poetry, Aging, and the Music of Being Alive
It is the Stick Together Family that Wins the Joys of the Earth
Aging and the Loss of Independence
Self-Compassion vs. Narcissism
The Affect of Divorce on People Who are Older
The Academy Awards and Nostalgia
"Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?"
The Power of Kindness: A Reflection on "A Prayer for Every Day"
The Ideal of Mankind vs. The Reality of Individuals
The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage
The Circle of Care: Life’s Role Reversal
It's Difficult to Age and Face Changes
The Heart of Ethical Living: Choices That Shape a Better World."
An Outrage, Immigrants Not Welcome
The Last Stage of Life, A Retirement Community
Meandering Thoughts on Family, Friends and Substack
Anticipatory Anxiety: Understanding and Managing the Fear of Change
Remember Us, A True Story of the Holocaust
In the Mirror, I See an Old Man
Celebrating Love, Beauty and Life
A Rising Tide of Anxiety: Understanding America's Growing Unease
"My Heart Has Known its Winter
Exploring Boredom: A Journey into Motivation, Meaning, and Modern Life
Let me Make This Perfectly Clear, Huh???
The Weight of Worry: Reflections on Aging and Introspection
