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Aging: the coda to life’s mythic themes

by MLHeller on July 28, 2008

in 2008,Acting out,Aging,Death and dying,General Archives,Grief and loss,Human development,Mothers and babies,Parenting,Relationships,Unconscious processes

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This column originally appeared in the Orange County Register.

“He’s gotten completely paranoid and is speaking in vernacular I don’t recognize,” my friend explained slowly and evenly, though clearly in an anxious state.  “The psychiatrist put him on medication, and I don’t know why.  I think he’s having a bad reaction.” [click to continue…]

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Sadness and Mourning

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by MLHeller on June 1, 2008

in 2008,Anxiety, depression and mood,Childhood development,Death and dying,Empathy,False self - Real self,Feelings,General Archives,Grief and loss,Human development,Infant development,Language, memory and thought,Parenting,Preverbal body memories,Relationships,Shopping and spending,States of consciousness,Unconscious processes

This column originally appeared in the Orange County Register

A screenwriter friend gave me an article discussing the salutary aspects of sadness and the ways in which our contemporary culture tends to quickly erase it or prematurely foreclose upon its gritty psychological usefulness in a quest for perennial cheery happiness.  As if happiness were a concrete object one could hold instead of a transitory state of being, one of many, that links specific inner notations of experience with external ones. [click to continue…]

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