Loving a Parent with Mental Illness: Through Pinto’s Em & the Big Hoom
Can love be enough? This question lies at the heart of Em and the Big Hoom, a work of autobiographical fiction by Jerry Pinto. Set…
Setting up your own practice, & giving back to the community: An interview with Dr. Alan (Part 3)
Dr. Alan has grown a successful psychotherapy practice over his 27 years of work, but also actively worked to provide lower-cost psychotherapy services to the…
Footsteps to Freedom: Walking across Sri Lanka for mental health
Nivendra and Hansini, two psychologists from Sri Lanka, are about to walk across Sri Lanka to increase awareness around mental health and illness. Together, they…
Focusing on you, the therapist: An interview with Dr. Alan (Part 2)
This is the second part of series of interviews with Dr. Alan Karbelnig, who is a Psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in LA, California. The first interview…
Creating Conversations about Therapy, within Therapy: An interview with Dr. Alan (Part 1)
It was the first time I sat through three whole days of listening to psychoanalytic lectures without getting lost- hanging onto the depth and simplicity…
My dysfunctions: A light-hearted journal for all that is perfect-ly wrong with you
Look what we found! The very embodiment of The Shrinking Couch! This is a great little pocket sized journal titled aptly – My Dysfunctions: An…
The ADHD Game: Awesome Day Hard Day!
My association with mental health and illness has been minimal, with a few personal cases spread out across our team. However, through the program at…