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Understanding Anxiety: What Our Bodies Are Telling Us

Do psychological disorders have a physical origin?

The Orphan Within: Understanding Why We Feel We Don’t Belong

Why do we sometimes feel alone in the world, bereft of parents? The concept of the "orphan within" may help explain that.

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How the Brain Stores Traumatic Memories

Fatherless Daughters: The Impact of Absence

The Fear of Abandonment: Missing Mothers and Fairy Tales

When Our Dreams Feel Like Warnings: Precognition, premonition, or coincidence: Are our hunches real?

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Letters Archive

Only you can name what blossoms

Singing in the Dark Times

Look for the Wren: Finding Strength and Beauty Amid Chaos

Why We Need Poetry

Finding Beauty in the Rubble

Friends in a time of enmity

Only connect

What does a poem do for you?

Living Forward, Understanding Backwards

The In-Between Time

What I Didn’t Know I Knew

Published! M, celebrating the heroic dimensions of women’s lives, my first poetry collection

Seeing in the Dark

Why We Need Dreams

Let This Be a Time When…

Finding exuberance during difficult times

Endurance or Madness? Ironmans and the Writing Life

Seeking Light as the Year Turns

Listening and Knowing

Trauma, Memory, and the Courage to be Vulnerable

Our Tribe of the Imagination in the New Year

The sweet glow keeps Georgia on my mind: when a cheesehead reads in the Peach State

Whither Spring?

Jersey Girl on Book Tour

“Feeling the love” — field notes from my first three readings

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Dale’s Books

The Conditions of Love

Debut Novel

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Poems

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Strange Attractors

“My Magdalene: Divinity and Desire”

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Jung's Red Book for Our Time

“In Extremis: Jung’s Descent into the Language of the Self”

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Eranos

“Reflections on Eranos”

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Dale’s Writings

Psychology Today

"Transcending the Past" - monthly column since 2014

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Glassworks

Interview with Dale - Coming Soon!

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The International Journal of Communal and Transgenerational Trauma

Myriam, Lebanon, 1993

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Jewish Currents

"My Jewish Question, My Father"

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Prairie Schooner

"Amour Fou" and "Unus Mundus, One World"

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The Conditions of Love

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Strange Attractors

Jung's Red Book for Our Time

Eranos

Psychology Today

Glassworks

The International Journal of Communal and Transgenerational Trauma

Jewish Currents

Prairie Schooner

Dale M. Kushner