The Art of Flourishing

How to thrive in challenging times
by Jeffrey B. Rubin, Ph.D.

It Would Be a Pity to Waste a Good Crisis

A young mother I know called me the other day in great distress. Through her tears I learned that she felt humiliated in front of her son’s teachers and the other mothers at a preschool Mother’s Day function when her son acted more rambunctiously than his sedate classmates. Read More

The Real Oedipal Complex

A new world opens up when we focus on the psychological implications of Sophocles’ haunting story rather than on Freud’s theory—or his errors. Read More

How Anthony Weiner Might Save His Marriage

Condemning is easy; fixing is hard. Read More

A Subversive View of Happiness

Walking through the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, several years ago, I was immediately drawn to the canvasses of Thomas Cole, a key figure in the Hudson River school, America's first native school of landscape painting. Read More

Jeffrey B. Rubin, Ph.D.

Jeffrey B. Rubin, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist in New York and author of The Art of Flourishing.

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