Posts by Michael Korson
Psychoanalysis: An Adventure in Love
Psychoanalysis and its chief tool, the couch, certainly evoke a lot of images. New Yorker cartoons come to mind. (A large fish is lying on the couch, the analyst in his chair behind the fish. The analyst asks: “So can you give me a metaphor for how you feel?” Presumably ‘Like a fish out of…
Psychotherapy and Transcendence: A Greater Sense of Freedom
To transcend those limitations and that limited sense of self is to become more alive and to live more freely. – Michael Korson Psychotherapy and Transcendence: A Greater Sense of Freedom by Michael Korson, MFT With the help of my clients, I have been thinking lately about transcendence. Generally when people talk about…
A Different Understanding of Fit: Or How Psychotherapy is Different from a Pair of Shoes
In all types of relationship, fit is often a matter of “good enough.” There are no perfect relationships just as there are no perfect human beings. No one relationship provides all of what someone needs. A key to accepting relationships and maintaining them long-term is for each person to understand what “good enough” means and then to strive…
Boats Against the Current: Psychotherapy and Learning to Row Against the Past
“It speaks to the practice of psychotherapy: a practice of examining that pull of the past, the currents, and then together, therapist and client, figuring out what best strokes to use to propel the journey (the client’s life) forward.” – Michael Korson Boats Against the Current: Psychotherapy and Learning to Row Against the Past By…