by Mark Maxwell If you haven't noticed, we love to categorize. We love to rank. We love to make things super simple and clear. Not such a bad thing… unless you're talking about understanding human behavior. On the internet. Why We Love to Label Everything Back in the day, you'd actually have to pay good money for a magazine that would give you the four simple steps to solve whatever your problem is, whether to find love, lose weight, or bring peace to the Middle East. Now you can click on it...

A friend asked me this question a while back, and honestly? It stumped me. We were discussing my work with "Focused Sessions"—intensive therapy over larger blocks of time instead of the traditional weekly hour. I was excited about this new approach and the freedom it gave me to dig deeper. It felt more organic and natural. Yet, I had been practicing like most therapists do: the therapy hour, once a week, for years. It hadn't occurred to me that we could do it differently. Therapy Against the...

A reflection on the dehumanizing rhetoric of anti-immigration from a therapist point of view.