Why Getting a New Handbag Makes Me Crazy

I don’t think men will understand this. Women will. I finally broke down and bought a new handbag.The old one had gotten shabby after using it so long. It was time. Each time I look for something in it, it is like learning to walk all over again. I know the old one’s sections and compartments like my own body. I know whereto find whatever I’m looking for. With the new one, it’s like being a stranger in a strange land. I don’t know where anything is.I hope my brain gets used to it soon.

New Stalking Presentation

Mental health professionals are more likely to be stalked than the average person but we receive little or no training in the concept of stalking or its management. I was stalked by a patient for ten months. and learned this the hard way. The experience is forever engraved in my brain. If I am stalked again, I will know better what to do. I want to tell you what I have learned so that you will not have to go through what I did. Mental health professionals can learn why the nature of our work can invite being stalked by a patient, and what we can do to stop it when it occurs, and some tips to prevent it.

I will be doing a presentation on this subject on Saturday, May 7 2011 from 8am-4 pm at the New York State Society for Clinical Social Workers Annual conference, held at The Nightingale-Bamford School, 20 East 92 Street, New York, NY 10128. T

THE MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF NARCISSISM AND HOW TO SURVIVE THEM

My presentation will be held from 1:45 to 3:45 pm.

I may well be offering a teleseminar on this subject at some future time. If you would be interested in this, please send me an email at Sharonkfarber@gmail.com to let me know

My New Book--Hungry for Ecstasy

I have a new book that will be published this year, Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties.It is about people who cannot live comfortably in their own skin, who look for ways to get out of it, often taking life-threatening risks along the way to attain a state of ecstasy.You 'll read about just what kind of state of mind ecstasy is,the difference between the quieter ecstatic states, mystical states that are not sought but come to one nonetheless, and the more frenzied ecstasies that are sought. You'l read about the various means by which people get there, and my speculations on what happens in the brain along the way. You'll read about religious ecstasies, ecstasies of pain, murder and other ecstasies from hell, and creative ecstasies. You can also read about what you can do to deter someone you know who is on this dangerous addictive path, whether they your friend, family member, patient or cllient. The last chapter is specifically for psychotherapists.