Michael Damian, Ph.D.

I recently found myself writing to a patient as follows:

Perhaps you are doubtful about searching for all the causes for your present difficulties in your childhood, because you fear it would be an endless or fruitless search that pressures you into false conclusions.

If that is the case, I sympathize with you. Childhood experiences are important, but we should look at the personal life more broadly, always keeping a keen eye on the present situation, to whi...

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