CitizenShip of Mixed Emotions - World Premiere at the DisOrient Film Festival in March, Eugene, Oregon ;) Happy New Year, and Happy-Almost Year of the Dragon! Hope the rains in California and the difficult weather elsewhere aren't affecting you to severely! Stay safe. Here's my latest. It started out as an 800 word essay for Psychology Today, but grew and grew til I could only publish my 3000 word take on the topic at East Wind. Hope you enjoy! MOSF 19.1: Love Your Enemies? Jesus, King, Buddha, and the Psychology of L ...Continue Reading

Illustration from "The Abuser-Victim Dyad: Central to Understanding Our Times" Licensed Adobe Stock image by Yuri Hi all, I've never asked for contributions to support my writing - but would welcome any donation you might offer. This year, I wrote 12 longform essays for East Wind eZine and 19 essays for Psychology Today, including a 4 part series on Trauma and Healing, and a well-received lecture on abusive power. All of that is available in my archive of past newsletters. You can donate via my compassion non ...Continue Reading

Hi all, First off - please consider donating to Randall Yip's AsAmNews! He has a $30K matching grant for donations from Nov 1-Dec 31, and his site is essential, daily publication on Asian American news. Funding will help support an on-the-ground reporter for Maui's recovery, and other specific initiatives for Asian America. I subscribe to the daily digest, and the headlines alone keep me abreast of Asian America. Donate here. One longread for your weekend. I appreciate the tools of deconstruction, and we have to " ...Continue Reading

A lot of links to articles and more in this email. Here's what's below: (Please distribute the resources to anyone you think might find them helpful. We're all in this together.) [*]A long letter about my experiences over the last two months [*]Two articles published after Oct. 7, including “Keeping a Cool Head and Warm Heart During a Crisis" and "Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and Society in a World Held Hostage” [*]A four-part series on trauma and healing, written or presented before Oct. 7. (b ...Continue Reading

(Happy Dumpling by sudowoodo, Adobe stock image licensed by Ravi Chandra. From "The Dim Sum Dialogues" - a podcast and blogpost at Psychology Today.) Hi all,   If any of you are interested - I am speaking at Tadaima on Monday night at 6 pm PT (Oct. 2, 2023) (sponsored by Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages. (The talk should be on YouTube soon after, and I will send a link to that next month.) Title: “Treating America’s #1 Addiction: Abusive Power” Blurb: Modern psychiatry recognizes that addicti ...Continue Reading

  Hi all, On Wednesday, I decided to read Ronan Farrow's New Yorker profile of Elon Musk - mainly so I would not have to read Walter Isaacson's hagiography-in-process. It'll take you an hour to read, longer if it makes your blood boil. My tl;dr - The TLDR - on this article by Ronan Farrow, which is worth the time - 1. Musk comes from a culture/nature/nurture in South Africa that amplified a dominating attitude. He was an abused child, saw his mother beaten, tried to defend her. The victim-perpetrator is probably th ...Continue Reading

Hi all, I vehemently disagree with the SCOTUS majority opinions on Affirmative Action, and those empowering homophobia and disempowering student loan borrowers. I have notes. Please also check out the references on my East Wind articles for a lot more detail. I think the truth and the evidence are in favor of Affirmative Action. I've just heard about some research by Stanford GSB Professor Deborah Gruenfeld "Diverse Teams Produce Better Decisions." A conservative supermajority in SCOTUS is producing ...Continue Reading

Hi all, You have til this Saturday, June 25 to order a t-shirt! Thanks to those who have already ordered, raising $290 for mental health and BIPOC arts! I am matching the total raised to $1000 - so please sign up and get this awesome t-shirt! It's based on what Daniel Kwan said at the Oscars, see link below to purchase and read more! https://www.customink.com/fundraising/withcollectivegenius?side=front&type=1&zoom=false   Brown’s Asian American Alumni Association is co-sponsoring a pan-Ivy-plus movie screenin ...Continue Reading

Hi all, My op-med article just got published on Doximity - based on a talk at the APA - Megalomania in the American Psyche: A Dangerous Conscious and Unconscious Influence  (May 30, 2023) Megalomaniacs don’t typically present for therapy, but the people they affect do. As psychiatrists, we must offer them insight and compassion. What agency, insight, compassion, and checks and balances can we, as psychiatrists, offer to a society with megalomaniac tendencies and possibilities? What insights do we need to hol ...Continue Reading

Hi all, Here are my latest since my last email - for your viewing pleasure! CAAMFest goes on for another week! Catch some films and food events! MOSF 18.3: CAAMFest 2023 Shorts – Finding Our Way Home in an Emotional Multiverse A review of some of the 60+ shorts in this year's festival, including RUNNING with COMMUNITY's Danny Pudi! MOSF 18.2: Celine Song’s Past Lives: Ambition and Emptiness (EAAPAAO Part 3)  The disrupted heart beats in many places, irregularly, achingly, disconsolately, but never steadily in o ...Continue Reading