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Sacred Disorder blog
Please consult Sacred Disorder to read regular commentary on psychology, politics and pop culture, frequently from a personal perspective.
Psychology essays
ABOUT THE DEATH OF THERAPY:
Why some people have abandoned it
200 calls later, some questions need answering
MISCELLANEOUS READING
Decoding Hillman: A critical look at the author of The Soul’s Code
The Return of Priapus:
Gay Sexual Transgression
(Warning: X-Rated!)
A soliloquy of a dream for performance
The Eco-Christ and the Necessity of Apocalypse
The archetypal imagination in new realms of ensoulment
Erotic revelations in cyberspace
Jocasta's Riddle:
How psychotherapy requires self-inquiry as tragic reflection
Nexus of violence and the erotic
Arthur Rimbaud and Depth Psychology
A new book raises some questions
Shadow of the Cultural Imagination?
A revelation of the psyche's shadows
Greek and Sufi Sources for the Archetypal View.
Is It a Spiritual Organ of Perception?
Some brief questions and observations from a depth-psychological perspective
Headcase/Paradigms
I wrote a weekly column for Atlanta’s Creative Loafing that was called “Paradigms” during its first few years and later renamed “Headcase.”
The column was published for about 20 years and was frequently reprinted on the Internet and in other publications. My plan is to resume it soon with another publication or independently as part of my Sacred Disorder blog.
To read some of the earlier “Paradigms” columns, when I was allowed to write in greater depth, see my original site, Soulworks.net.
Other columns are filed in Creative Loafing’s archives. Here are some links.
(NOTE: SOME OF THESE LINKS DO NOT FUNCTION CORRECTLY. THEY WERE COPIED FROM ANOTHER SOURCE. I’M IN THE PROCESS OF REPAIRING THEM)
All Boomers are insane:
Blame it on the '60s
The value of LSD:
Reflecting on the death of Albert Hoffman
When the news is propaganda:
The U.S. media ignore a story about their own corruption
The construction of meaning:
Of Easter, tornadoes and aesthetics
Prozac of placebo?
A major study questions antidepresssants
Why I was disinherited:
'For reasons known to him'
No, no, no
Should Amy Winehouse kill herself?
A run of bad luck
And a moment of gratitude
Just in time for Christmas
My father rejects me from his grave
Orphaned again
My father dies at 84
No, no, no
Should Amy Winehouse kill herself?
I'll never speak to you again
Unless you speak to me again
Reporting as stenography
It's gotten worse, but it certainly isn't new
The new atheism
'Tis the season to disbelieve
My worst Thanksgiving ever
Waiting for a corpse at a drive-in funeral home
Toffee Coffee Arctic epiphany
Insight rarely arrives on schedule
Meditation or medication?
Of depression, placebos and the Dalai Lama
Are you shy?
Perhaps you are mentally ill and need Paxil
Two different brains
Liberals and conservatives are literally wired differently
Tap dancing in the bathroom
Now, the GOP = Gays On Potties
Freud and baggy pants
It's all about anal eroticism
The first day of school
How to make a bad impression in first grade
Looking for a mustard seed
A faith healer, a man who sits on the roof and me
My visit to PTL
Why Tammy Faye was gay-friendly
Necessary anthropomorphizing
Of Michael Vick and the nature of animals
One year later
A dream of a dove and my dead mother
Pandering at the AJC
Thoughtful criticism of the arts? Who needs it?
Everything Freud is new again
t's not only what you remember, it's how you remember
Massacre at Virginia Tech
Everyone has an explanation; no one has an answer
Twenty years later
The exemplary and angry work of ACT UP
Do you hear what I hear?
Psychology undertakes some new directions
Surprise! You're crippled!
My year of well-insured
Dancing and Death
Thoughts on a flamenco performance
The Shadow Knows
Why do good men say dumb things?
Are you a happy camper?
Positive psychology invades the schools
It's good to be dead
Saddam's a martyr and Ford's the great uniter
Does your life suck? It's time for some excellent negative thinking.
God is a goat:
On encountering Pan in a new movie
Are you a happy camper? Positive psychology invades the schools
Your body is not your own: Of the Love Shack, Mary's uterus and gay soy
Sincerely mendacious: When lying feels warm and fuzzy
Don't grunt: How to humiliate a musclehead
The cartoonish imagination: Of reefer, castration and Abu Ghraib
Delicious Schadenfreude: Americans cast out the Republican devils
Crystal meth and sex: How the drug turned an AIDS educator's life upside down
The freak is chic: Shortbus discloses the everyday theater of the absurd
The Mother's Gaze: Love, pain and the need to forgive
Meeting an avatar: A look back after five years of estrangement from a spiritual teacher
In the crucible of melancholy: Visiting childhood homes recalls the future
The crack in everything: Of broken hearts, angels and terrible knowledge
Who's crazy? Recalling my summer with severely autistic children
Blogging as therapy: Will cyberspace obliterate the consulting room?
Come home, Morpheus: A bout with insomnia
Walking the fine line: Challenging traditional perceptions of beauty -- and androgyny
My mother's memorial service and remembering Bryn Athyn Cathedral
My mother is dead: Remembering the character who shaped me
The poetry of pain: Is there meaning to be found in extreme pain?
For more, go here: By Cliff Bostock
