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Mental Wellness Today


Existential Psychology and Meaning
Meaning may come easy or feel evasive. The article seeks to broaden our basic understanding.
Jon Weingarden
Dec 9, 20254 min read


Early psychological impacts of AI
Fears elicited by the meteoric rise of AI
Jon Weingarden
Nov 14, 20253 min read


Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Mental Health challenges can be discussed as, or lead to, repeated patterns. While this takes a more explicit front-row seat in some theoretical perspectives, it presents across orientations. A self-fulfilling prophecy refers to a symptom or interpersonal patterns that leads exactly where the person consciously wants to avoid.
Jon Weingarden
Aug 13, 20257 min read


Integrative Therapy
Understanding and choosing a theoretical orientation is one of the more confusing and important aspects of becoming a therapist.
Jon Weingarden
Jul 25, 20255 min read


Live with Meaning Despite Existential Dread
Live with Meaning Despite Existential Dread
Jon Weingarden
Jul 16, 20257 min read


Bipolar Disorder Treatment
Bipolar disorder Treatment as a circadian rhythm disorder
Jon Weingarden
Jun 14, 20256 min read


Women Trailblazers of the Psychoanalytic Tradition
Women pioneers of psychodynamic tradition
Jon Weingarden
May 29, 20258 min read


Kohut vs Kernberg
A Facebook group post queried: Is it concerning that Kernberg would diagnose borderline personality and Kohut would diagnose narcissism?...
Jon Weingarden
May 27, 20257 min read


Bipolar - and its multiple meanings
Bipolar is frequently misunderstood or the term misused. Here we explore 3 distinct clinical uses of the term.
Jon Weingarden
May 22, 20254 min read


Practical Diagnostic and Conceptual Models
Practical, broad conceptual model
Jon Weingarden
Apr 24, 202516 min read


Maintain Therapeutic Focus: Surface-to-depth, central-to-peripheral
Many therapists struggle with what to focus on, what to address, and when and how to do it. At times, we feel clients are giving us...
Jon Weingarden
Mar 25, 202510 min read


About Dr. Jon Weingarden's Blogs
Introduction to WPS blog
Jon Weingarden
Mar 2, 20252 min read


Part 3 Mind-Body Feedback Cycle: Treatment
Part 3 of 3 Da Vinci's Vitruvian man was his ideal of perfection based upon ratios, or in other words, balance. In this blog, a metaphor...
Jon Weingarden
Feb 20, 202512 min read


Mind-Body Feedback Cycle: Knot of Mental and Physical Wellness
Understanding the interrelatedness between physical and mental wellness
Jon Weingarden
Feb 19, 20258 min read
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