Tag: Social Sciences

• The Quest for a Symbolic Father

  A paper I presented at the California Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) Conference a few months ago. I have edited out some sections and all case studies for reasons of ethics and confidentiality. Neurons contain representation the way a poem contains alphabets – Freud Introduction What do Saddam Hussain, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, Adolph Hitler, Jack the Ripper and…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  November 25, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Carl Jung, Charles Manson, Hero, Jacques Lacan, jung, psychology, Social Sciences, Unconscious mind

• Post Partum Depression

  I haven’t been able to write as much, or as frequently as I desire. This post, originally called Othering of the Mother, remains one of the most widely read posts even today, and so I take the liberty of reblogging it. —————————————————————————————————————————– Of recent, my psyche has gravitated  towards explorations in developmental psychology and the mother-infant dyad.…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  July 25, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Breastfeeding, Developmental psychology, Infant, Margaret Mahler, Mother, Postpartum depression, psychology, Social Sciences

• Desire as Metonymy

  “Desire is shaped like a metonymy.” I had read this several times over the years, a quote attributed to Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst.  I had attempted to understand this cognitively. However, it wasn’t until earlier today that the full implications of his statement dawned on me experientially. Lacan’s is a psychology of desire. His desire…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  May 27, 2011

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Poetry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

  Jacques Lacan, Metaphor, Metonymy, Name of the Father, psychology, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Žižek, Social Sciences

• Part Object vs Whole Object Relating

  Goenka ji, the man behind Vipassana Meditation, tells a tale about a little kid. The tale has never failed to move me, despite its repetition over the last 10 years.  A mom makes kheer for her little son, and offers it to him in a plate. Kheer is an Indian dish, much like rice pudding,. It can be had…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  May 22, 2011

  Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Uncategorized

  child, Family, Home, Melanie Klein, Mother, Object relations theory, parenting, Social Sciences

• The Construction of Hope

  “You keep hoping!” a close psychologist friend had accused me a few months ago, in a tone that he generally reserved for criminals, and for his severely disturbed patients. “You have these delusions [that your love can miraculously change people’s pathological patterns to normalcy]….” he had qualified at a later moment. And yes, the situation I faced was such that my hope…

  Madhu Sameer, from Madhuban

  December 19, 2010

  Counseling, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couples Counseling, Creativity, Expressions, Fresno, Marriage Counseling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Uncategorized

  Brahma, Christmas, Holidays, New Year, Opinions, Shiva, Social Sciences, Vishnu