by Alan Cohen | Aug 14, 2014 | Looking for Psychotherapy
Scarecrows serve an interesting purpose: they are incapable of doing any harm to intruders, but their power lies in creating the illusion that they can and will. So, the crows stay out of the cornfields, even though if they were to venture forth they would enjoy a...
by Alan Cohen | Aug 13, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Looking for Psychotherapy, NYC Therapist
I spend the day sitting with patients. These are people who come to see me because they are aware (sometimes vaguely, sometimes acutely) that something is missing in their lives. These are intelligent people, educated, creative, moral, but missing something. They...
by Alan Cohen | Aug 12, 2014 | Looking for Psychotherapy
We are compelled by feelings that don’t have words when we encounter the experience of birth, and when we encounter the experience of death. Both experiences, if we are open to them, give us a sense of awe, that what is happening here is truly unexplainable and beyond...
by Alan Cohen | Aug 11, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Mental Health Professionals, NYC Therapist
by Alan Cohen | Aug 11, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Mental Health Professionals, NYC Therapist When we look at different approaches to psychotherapy, we are actually not looking at interchangeable strategies, techniques, or interventions. Each approach has its own set of...
by Alan Cohen | Aug 10, 2014 | Gestalt Therapy, Mental Health Professionals, NYC Therapist
In the late 1960’s Fritz Perls spoke about something he called “the layers of the neurotic personality”. It was essentially a phenomenological description of the experience, identifications, and behaviors of people who have substituted what he referred to as...