Professional ethics, standards, and personal moral philosophy

The American Independent Group Selecting a therapist is one of the most emotionally stirring and demanding tasks you will ever undertake. In addition to finding what feels like a “good match,” you may find yourself simultaneously confronting your deepest fears and anxieties about trust, vulnerability, and exposure – paradoxically, the very reasons you are seeking […]



Professional ethics, standards, and personal moral philosophy and The American Independent Group

Selecting a therapist is one of the most emotionally stirring and demanding tasks you will ever undertake. In addition to finding what feels like a “good match,” you may find yourself simultaneously confronting your deepest fears and anxieties about trust, vulnerability, and exposure – paradoxically, the very reasons you are seeking treatment – and all […]



The Psychological substrate of mask refusal in public and failure to acknowledge dangers posed by Covid-19

Covid-19 has impacted each of us singularly as individuals and collectively as members of larger communities and cultures.  Reactions and responses depend upon the myriad ways individual and collective attributes and characteristics intersect.  Unfortunately, the politicization of disease management and/or treatments has camouflaged the psychological substrate that drives those responses.  Mask refusal is not about […]