Love, Connection & Mental Health

All articles published here are intended for educational and reference purposes only. There are moments in clinical work—quiet, almost imperceptible—when the structure of a person’s suffering reveals itself not as trauma alone, nor conditioning alone, but as something more subtle: a misidentification. Not a wound in the personality, but a confusion about what the personality…

There seems to be a curious thing that happens as people become more spiritually conscious: they often feel less need to have a partner. This can easily be mistaken for withdrawal from love. Perhaps it is something quite different. Much of what we ordinarily call the desire for partnership contains an element of need. We…