Living on Tulsa Time I: Down from the Ivory Tower
An old college chum sent me an article called “Storm Clouds over Tulsa," written by Jacob Howland at the end of April 2019. It got me...
Square Ball in a Round Hole
To distract my toddler one morning when my wife was trying to get him into the car, I picked up the cardboard container from some wine...
The Futility of Psychotherapy: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men II.
Out Like a Lamb Gore Vidal once said that since it is power, not sex, that is the true motor to human life, young people no longer...
Psychotherapy Emasculated: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men I.
The Ides of March My father once told me he didn’t know how a boy became a man without the experience of combat. I’m sure he never wished...
Bad Boys
So what’s the appeal of bad boys? Let’s be clear that the real “bad boys,” are the ones who have failed, the incarcerated felons, the...
Forbidden Knowledge
Parental Advisory: Explicit Content One of the truths about our neurophysiology is habituation, feeling less and less with repetition of...
Intimacy and Habituation: We Need to Talk
One of the problems with exploring the neuroscience behind any kind of human experience is the fear that doing so is reductive, and turns...