by David Bowman, LMFT | Mar 18, 2019 | Addiction, Featured, Gay, LGBT, Men's Issues, Recovery
Any Los Angeles therapist working with the gay community cannot fail to be saddened by the prevalence of crystal meth and the abundance of users and addicts of all races, all socio-economic classes, and every intelligence level imaginable. From the rooms of...
by David Bowman, LMFT | May 1, 2018 | Featured, Recovery, Recovery Journal, Therapy
Jungian therapists see the roots of addiction growing in the need to escape the loneliness of human existence. In “The Art of Loving,” Erich Fromm show us how we manufacture romance, and even love, as palliatives for the pain and anguish of being alone in...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Dec 15, 2017 | Recovery, Recovery Journal, Therapy
“Relapse is part of recovery,” goes the saying. Not that we welcome relapse … but shit happens. For myself, and for many of my clients, a relapse after three years of sobriety, or five years of sobriety, is a vastly different affair from our initial climb out of the...