Other Blogs by Dr. Hoffman

Psychology Today Blog Posts 

This blog began in 2025. New blogs will be posted approximately one time per month.

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• Why We Need Empathy: Saving humanity from "mental toughness." (March 12, 2025)

• Existential Therapy's Place in the Field of Psychotherapy (March 3, 2025)

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Existential Therapy Blogs (at www.existential-therapy.com)

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• Privilege, Existential Guilt, and Responsibility (June 1, 2017)

• Why Become an Existential Therapist? (March 15, 2017)

• Existential-Humanistic Therapy & the Middle Path (March 15, 2017)

• Finding Oneself and Creating Oneself: Implications of the Psychotherapy Folklore (Originally published October 1, 2014; republished Mary 8, 2025)

• Dogs and Existential Psychology (Originally published June 2, 2014; republished March 8, 2025)

• A Cultural Crisis of Responsibility: Responding to a Denial of Our Humanity (Originally published May 6, 2014; republished March 20, 2025)

• Sitting with Death in Poetry (Originally published April 28, 2014; republished March 22, 2025)

• Embodied Racism (Originally published April 3, 2014; republished March 8, 2025)

• Diversity: Why We Can't Stop Talking (Originally posted March 18, 2014; republished March 22, 2025)

• Work-Life Balance, Authenticity, and Existential Values (Originally published March 4, 2014; republished March 8, 2025)

• Beyond Existential Martyrdom (Originally published April 16, 2014; republished March 22, 2025)

• Polarization and the DSM5: Conversations About the Politics of Diagnosis and Medication in Mental Health (Originally published September 10, 2013; republished March 8, 2025)

• On Being an Existential Psychology Evangelist (originally published September 18, 2013; republished March 8, 2025)

• Would the True Existential Therapy Please Stand Up? Eclectic, Antagonistic, or Integrative?  (Originally published September 5, 2013; republished March 8, 2025)

• An Existential Approach to Microaggressions (Originally posted July 11, 2013; republished March 22, 2025)

• Violence in the United States: Standing in the Shadow of Our Greatest Lie (Originally published December 18, 2012; republished March 8, 2025)

• Existential Activism (Originally published November 29, 2012; republished March 22, 2025)

• Politics and Existentialism: Zhi Mian and United States Politics–Part 2: Empathy and Collective Responsibility (Originally published October 23, 2012; republished March 8, 2025)

• Politics and Existentialism: Zhi Mian and United States Politics–Part 1: Facing Conflict and Disagreement Directly (Originally published October 22, 2012; republished March 8, 2025)

• Existential Lessons from My Father (Originally published October 5, 2012; republished March 22, 2025)

• A Tribute to the Students of Humanistic Psychology (Originally published September 21, 2012; republished March 20, 2025)

• Existential Lessons from My Mother (Originally published July 17, 2012; republished March 22, 2025)

• Mark Yang: Living a Taoist Model of Leadership in Existential Psychology (Originally published June 29, 2012; republished March 8, 2025)

• The Relationship in Academia (Originally published May 12, 2012; republished March 8, 2025)

• Education's Lost Citizenship (Originally published April 27, 2012; republished March 8, 2025)

• Can Self-Promotion Be Authentic? (Originally published March 20, 2012; republished March 22, 2025)

• Occupy Mental Health! Countering the "Business Model" of Psychotherapy (Originally published November 8, 2011; republished March 8, 2025)

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Good Therapy Blogs​

 

• Can a Poem Be Healing? Writing Poetry Through the Pain (January 31, 2018)

• The Value of Leisure in a Society That Prizes Activity (November 22, 2017)

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Helping Therapy Work Blog at www.drlouishoffman.com (private practice site)

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• Managing Political Stress in Turbulent Political Times (September 25, 2020)

• What Are the Most Important Factors in Making Therapy Work (March 16, 2017)

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