by Glenn Berger PhD | Oct 30, 2018 | Wisdom
October 11, 2018 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the day I was arrested. By 1988, AIDS diagnoses in the U.S. approached 100,000 and communities were devastated. The Republican government’s ignoring of the growing crisis led to the formation of Act Up, the direct...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Feb 2, 2018 | Popular
In the film, Groundhog Day, the lead character, played with perfect disaffected snarkiness by Bill Murray, gets trapped living a single day over and over again. Every day is Groundhog Day; a cold, gray, mediocre one in Puxatawney, Pennsylvania. Each day, Murray steps...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 26, 2018 | Popular
The next quality that is central to the Mencian conception of heart is ch’i. (For those of you who are just joining this conversation, Mencius was a great Chinese Sage who lived and wrote 2300 years ago. Central to his philosophy was the notion of “heart.”...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Victor Frankl, one of the great existential psychotherapists of the 20th century and a profound human being, was a concentration-camp survivor. An author of dozens of books, his most renowned is Man’s Search for Meaning. He captures the sum of my philosophy and...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 24, 2018 | Popular
Many years ago, when I was searching for the answer to life, I thought I’d find it by going to the end of the world. That was the instruction I found in all the stories. You climbed the mountain, found the guy with the long beard, and he’d give you the secret. You’d...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 15, 2018 | Popular
Martin Luther King said that, “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” When we hear the President saying things that betray some of our most deeply-held values it is virtually impossible to feel love for him or want to be his friend. It...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Jan 8, 2018 | Popular
As it is the new year, I am reminded of Mircea Eliade’s The Myth of the Eternal Return. In this book, the author explains that in ancient cultures, time was thought of as circular rather than linear, rotating on a yearly basis back to a primal, original moment,...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Dec 13, 2017 | Popular
In my psychotherapy practice, guys of all ages complain that sooner or later they lose their mojo for their sex partner. They start off being able to do it three times a night, but before long they can barely find a good reason to get it on. They don’t really...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Dec 13, 2017 | Popular
In the film “Bye Bye Birdie,” the character Albert, played by Dick Van Dyke, tells his mother that he has “plans” to marry his secretary, Rosie. When his mother hears this, she puts her head in the oven and tells her son to bury her in the front yard so Rosie can walk...
by Glenn Berger PhD | Dec 13, 2017 | Popular
I got an email from a client recently asking, “hey, what does it mean when you have the reoccurring dream that you’ve missed one class and this keeps you from graduating school?” The truth is, no one knows for sure. But there are a few things we do know pretty clearly...
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