D. Michael Louderback M.A. is an analytical psychotherapist in Seattle鈥檚 Fremont neighborhood working with individuals and couples. His passion includes shame, trauma, and the LGBTQ community. He is a member of the Center for Object Relations and the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, as well as an assistant instructor at 天美视频 of Theology & Psychology. He enjoys writing, reading, and the occasional ferry ride.
Most of us probably hear the word 鈥渘arcissism鈥� in conversation with some regularity, often used to refer to a distant, disembodied other. Here, D. Michael Louderback (MACP, 鈥�13), an analytic psychotherapist and ongoing contributor to this blog, argues that it is all too easy to separate narcissism from its context. Michael pulls from the voices聽of […]
Last week, Brittany Deininger wrote about 鈥減laces where we work out what it means to be human in relation to God, the earth, and others.鈥� Here, D. Michael Louderback (MACP, 鈥�13), an analytic psychotherapist and ongoing contributor to this blog, writes about another way in which we work out (and work with) our humanity, particularly […]
What do we do with pain? On individual, relational, social, and cultural levels, do we engage the pain that confronts us, or do we fight it, bury it, and try to run from it? Here, D. Michael Louderback (MACP, 鈥�13), an analytic psychotherapist, writes about our relationship with that which seems unbearable, and about聽the complex聽intersection […]
The years. The minutes and seconds and moments, both key and not so much so, all seem to happen so quickly; so instantly; so irretrievably wonderfully fast, don鈥檛 they? Our selves are born (thrown, I would say is more accurate) into relationship with this paradox known as life and helped to survive it; and if […]