By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on June 3rd, 2017
Every once in a while, a few of my clients will seem to become synchronized around a single theme or issue. This happened a couple weeks ago, and the theme was obligation. The quick version is this…
“Appreciation and apology, not obligation, are the currency of healthy relationships.”
When people in a relationship become focused on score-keeping [...]
By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on April 16th, 2014
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Having a two-year-old at home, I have been revisiting a vast array of children’s nursery rhymes, song, stories, and fairy tales. Most carry no real weight as vehicles of philosophy, but “Row, Row, [...]
By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on November 9th, 2011
I belong to a book group focused on Buddhism and psychotherapy, and one of our recurring discussions is about whether or not there is a self. Buddhist teachings often focus on the idea that there is no such thing as the self, but clinical work in Psychology tends to deal directly with the self. It [...]
By Jeffrey Noethe, Ph.D., on September 25th, 2011
Every once in a while, I come across an anxious or depressed client whose symptoms appear to be grounded in a particular belief system, which I will call deconstructionism. The deconstructionist sees the inherent flaws in everything and uses this awareness to reject everything as worthless. Religion, career, community, culture, relationships, politics, philosophy, morality, and [...]
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