November 1, 2026

 


I am pleased to share four recent essays exploring how our experiences take shape through memory, imagination, and the meanings we give them — and how psychotherapy can alter the ways we perceive, understand, and relate to our own lives.



The Aesthetics of Experience

What if psychotherapy is not simply about understanding or resolving our difficulties, but about developing a more personal, imaginative, and meaningful relationship with our own experience?

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Numinous

Certain experiences acquire their deepest psychological significance only years later, when we have developed the capacity to recognize meanings that were previously unavailable to us.

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Where Meaning Waits

An exploration of how psychotherapy helps us discover relationships among memories, feelings, and experiences that have remained disconnected or insufficiently understood.

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When the Familiar Becomes Strange

How psychotherapy can disrupt our habitual ways of seeing ourselves and others, allowing familiar experiences to become newly surprising, unfamiliar, and psychologically revealing.

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