Daniel Siegel: A System's View of Disintegration & Integration (He's still cute, he's still brilliant, he speaks in easy-to-remember aphorisms and he's still heartful. What's not to like?) "Integration is the linking of differentiated parts. The concept is useful for ass...

Day 1: Bessel van der Kolk is lovely. He's humble, he's funny, and he is the premiere researcher on the neurobiology and/or efficacy of trauma treatments in the world. And cute and brilliant, of course. Here are nearly random gems from 3 hours of notes: With trauma, there are no stories, onl...

Have I mentioned lately that I'm still in therapy?  And that I'm making great strides in understanding what drives my mood and behavior?  The work we've been doing has been intense and, at times, very difficult, but I am quite better off for having processed it.  I have...

    As Army officials announced the beginning of Brain Injury Awareness Month, they offered up a figure that makes it hard to believe anyone in the military could be unaware of the problem:     Between 45,000 and 90,000 troops have been treated for traumatic b...

Yesterday I held my new book in my hands. It's hard for me to make meaning of 14 months of work being encapsulated in a 1 1/2 pound book. As I paged through it, I recalled the process of writing; my appreciation of the content of other people's chapters; editing squabbles; waiting, waiting, ...

Those of us who've spent more time than we care to admit it around religi-anity are familiar with the story of the Apostle Paul. Probably a Hellenic Jew, he had a strong background persecuting -- i.e., killing -- Christians --......

In light of the most recent shocking statistics on military suicides, we have had more suicides in January than killed in combat. When will we begin to do something about our soldiers and veterans killing themselves? They fought hard to keep themselves and their battle buddies alive. Should we not d...

I can understand and appreciate the precarious position you find yourself in. It can be a horrendous feeling to loose a powerful position such as being a soldier. Professions that hold a high public trust have plenty of prestige and respect as part of the package. The loss of identity tied to a voca...

We live in a world society that dissects everything into an dichotomous orgy of categorical righteous indignation. We deny that everywhere we look and see a negative, that sitting there staring back at us is a positive. The higher order of existence has no separation of right-wrong, black-white, jus...

I am a Gulf War I vet, I felt the same as you when I returned home from combat. For me it was the total sense of feeling alive and being apart of my squad that I missed, although I did not figure this out until after 15 years of insanity. In the mix, blood pounds through the veins and I received a p...