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I Can’t Stop Thinking About My Ex: When a Gay Breakup Takes Over Your Mind

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Man sitting beside a window in a quiet room.

“It’s been months. Why am I still thinking about him every day?” In my work over 30 years as a gay men’s specialist psychotherapist and coach, I’ve heard some version of this question many times. Sometimes it comes from a man whose relationship lasted fifteen or twenty years and whose entire adult life had become … Read more

The Psychology of 9/11: Perpetrator Motivations and Our Reactions

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Manhattan, New York, April 10, 2016. One World Trade Center (also known as 1 World Trade Center, One WTC 1 and WTC, the current building was dubbed the "Freedom Tower" During initial basework) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center co

Every September, we remember the nearly 3,000 people murdered on September 11, 2001. We also confront a question that is difficult to ask without seeming to excuse the crime: How did the men who planned it come to believe that killing strangers, and dying themselves, was justified? As a psychotherapist, I have thought about that … Read more