Articles, blogs, etc...
It’s Time To End the Myth of Emotional Self-Sufficiency. Published in Common Ground Magazine, February 2016.
There’s something much more dangerous out there than the next big flu. It’s a virus, and it will shorten your life. But it’s not a tiny microbe; it’s a meme. It’s the prevailing myth of emotional self-sufficiency... Read more
Finding the Feet: Treating Immigration Trauma in Children. Published in fort/da, the journal of the NCSPP.
Ana was a quiet, shy Mexican girls who spoke rarely in class. She was referred to me for counseling at school. We spent our first three sessions making bead bracelets together and speaking very little. I focused mainly on being friendly and present... Read more
Worked Out: On the Chronic and Pervasive Trauma of Corporate Life. Published in New Therapist, Issue 70, November/December 2010.
Many therapists have never worked in a corporation, but many of our clients grapple daily with the difficult demands of corporate life. Having spent seventeen years working in industry, I decided to write an article for therapists, explaining some of the issues at stake as I see them... Read more
Freeing the Id: Deconstructing the Colonial Basis to Freud’s Ego/Id/Superego. Published in Journal of Radical Psychology, Spring 2005. Abstract—On close reading, Freud's conception of id, ego and superego reveals itself to be founded on a colonialist metaphor in which the id is equated with similar qualities to those projected onto 'the natives' in the colonies of the time. Freud's work necessarily participates in the ideology of empire. If we can however, step outside of this ideology, we can reread his work less as a true description of the internal psychic economy and more as a fascinating revelation of the process of colonization. In our current context of globalization, this issue is more relevant than ever... Read more
Lonely Hearts Club: Has Internet Porn Kidnapped the Man You Love? “Sometimes, when we’re making love, I feel like I don’t exist for him,” she says. “There’s no connection between us. I feel lonely. And afterwards I feel empty.” .... Read more
Surviving Chronic Fatigue. As a chronic fatigue survivor myself, I understand what it's like to be so indescribably tired that you cannot remember what it felt like to be you. Only someone who has actually had it can know what it feels like to be that tired. As though someone took out your batteries. As though your very bones are tired. People used to say, "Maybe you just need to rest"... Read more
There’s something much more dangerous out there than the next big flu. It’s a virus, and it will shorten your life. But it’s not a tiny microbe; it’s a meme. It’s the prevailing myth of emotional self-sufficiency... Read more
Finding the Feet: Treating Immigration Trauma in Children. Published in fort/da, the journal of the NCSPP.
Ana was a quiet, shy Mexican girls who spoke rarely in class. She was referred to me for counseling at school. We spent our first three sessions making bead bracelets together and speaking very little. I focused mainly on being friendly and present... Read more
Worked Out: On the Chronic and Pervasive Trauma of Corporate Life. Published in New Therapist, Issue 70, November/December 2010.
Many therapists have never worked in a corporation, but many of our clients grapple daily with the difficult demands of corporate life. Having spent seventeen years working in industry, I decided to write an article for therapists, explaining some of the issues at stake as I see them... Read more
Freeing the Id: Deconstructing the Colonial Basis to Freud’s Ego/Id/Superego. Published in Journal of Radical Psychology, Spring 2005. Abstract—On close reading, Freud's conception of id, ego and superego reveals itself to be founded on a colonialist metaphor in which the id is equated with similar qualities to those projected onto 'the natives' in the colonies of the time. Freud's work necessarily participates in the ideology of empire. If we can however, step outside of this ideology, we can reread his work less as a true description of the internal psychic economy and more as a fascinating revelation of the process of colonization. In our current context of globalization, this issue is more relevant than ever... Read more
Lonely Hearts Club: Has Internet Porn Kidnapped the Man You Love? “Sometimes, when we’re making love, I feel like I don’t exist for him,” she says. “There’s no connection between us. I feel lonely. And afterwards I feel empty.” .... Read more
Surviving Chronic Fatigue. As a chronic fatigue survivor myself, I understand what it's like to be so indescribably tired that you cannot remember what it felt like to be you. Only someone who has actually had it can know what it feels like to be that tired. As though someone took out your batteries. As though your very bones are tired. People used to say, "Maybe you just need to rest"... Read more
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The Ethnopsychology Blog
The Ethnopsychology Blog
reflects my deep interest in the different ways the various cultures
and subcultures in this world conceive of the world and our lives within
it. Having been born in Asia, I hold a UK passport, lived for most of
my adult life in France, and now live in the US as a resident alien.
Issues of cultural identity and displacement are very close to 'home'
for me, as they are for many of my clients.
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Rachael Vaughan MA, MFT # 50730: Depth Psychotherapy and EMDR in San Francisco and Marin, for individuals and couples, in English and French
