Psychological Individuation

Seeking The Familiar

By Dr. Jordan / February 14, 2025 /

The familiar (root is the word family) can have a relentless grasp upon our emotional lives. Most of us don’t know this. We simply seek it throughout life unaware. Which means that we recreate it repetitively because that is what we have learned. Problem is, the familiar can be healthy and a guide to a…

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Meeting the Unique Individual: Theory & Practice of Benjamin Wolstein, Ph.D.

By Dr. Jordan / February 11, 2025 /

I knew the late Dr. Benjamin Wolstein as a teacher, supervisor, psychoanalyst, and as the extraordinary individual he was. This last characteristic, I believe, could only be experienced if you were brave enough to be a patient of this extraordinary analyst. As a psychoanalyst he devoted himself exclusively to his craft: studying human beings up…

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