Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, recently wrote a book called, “Breaking History.” It’s received poor reviews. However, I do like the idea behind the title and have stolen it to name this post, “Breaking Society” because that is the actual context for his book, a society in danger through polarization and mistrust. Although that might seem… Continue reading Breaking Society
Category: Wounds
On Helping Each Other
It would seem like a simple thing — in our work we should help each other rather than compete. We should reinforce one another’s contributions, not tear them down. And yet how good at this are we actually? It’s funny how the competition — for credibility, for worth — can leak out of us in… Continue reading On Helping Each Other
The Reason for Evil
Gwen Adshead begins her recent book, The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion, with an epigraph from Carl Jung: “The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.” As a forensic psychologist and psychotherapist she’s heard some unimaginable ones — from decades of listening… Continue reading The Reason for Evil
The Mutiny Against Our Conditioning
As adults we come up against facets of ourselves that we wish to change. Unconscious bigotry, for example, or certain aspects of introversion or excessive guilt, impatience or egocentricity — our weaknesses and the results of our “over-strengths.” Taking on these challenges sounds good and promises a desirable transformation but in reality also portends the… Continue reading The Mutiny Against Our Conditioning