How we use scapegoats to avoid taking responsibility for our own lives and how accepting the role of scapegoat can destroy creativity, joy and love.

We can own our life stories and have choices about changing our lives or mindlessly live out our life stories and repeat the same mistakes and recreate the same unhappiness.

Discussion about the difficulty in knowing when you need help and when you don't around the statement the "smoking is a treatable medical condition."

The political stories now dominating the 2008 election have much to do with how we see life and death. I fear that themes of death are getting stronger than those concerned with life.

A discussion about how we have given up our freedom to ingest anything we wish and as a consequence have given up our ability to mature and become responsible adults. Special attention will be paid to the role of psychiatry in this ongoing tragedy.

Stories about getting older, growing up, and transforming parent/child relationships.

A discussion of my evolution as a psychologist including some of the economic, religious, political, and educational factors that shaped my development and current viewpoint about my field.

A discussion about the changing definition of maturity and how it has affected politics.

A follow-up to conversations with Grace Jackson, M.D.

Is there a relationship between psychiatric drugs and violence and suicide?