" The more I see, the less I know for sure. " — John Lennon

Goop Tackles Addiction

August 21, 2015 | Posted in Addiction

Why are we all addicts? That’s the question Gwyneth Paltrow asks in a new post on GOOP. “Dr. Carder Stout, a therapist in Los Angeles, explains how we’re all essentially addicts, manifesting this shared reality through everything from our relationships with our tech to an obsession with exercise,” she writes. “Yes, addiction is inside you…

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Everyone is An Addict

August 20, 2015 | Posted in Addiction

by DR. CARDER STOUT We live in the age of addiction. It is a time of unbridled desire and reckless overconsumption. Addicts seem to be everywhere. We point our fingers at the drunks stumbling down the street and recognize the drug-addled miscreants shuffling behind abandoned buildings in the bad sections of town. Addiction may have…

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This Is What Your Dreams Really Mean

August 5, 2015 | Posted in Dreams

Your psyche is trying to talk to you — listen to it. Have you ever woken up from a dream that had you really scratching your head, wondering what the heck it really means? The famous Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung analyzed 20,000 dreams over the course of his lifetime and theorized that dreams were…

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What Dreams Mean

June 25, 2015 | Posted in Dreams

Dr. Carder Stout came late to the world of psychotherapy: After working for Warner Brothers and then branching out to do his own thing in the film industry, he went back to school for his Masters in Psychology in 2004. One of the lovely things about Carder’s approach is that his goal with all patients…

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Ordinary Dreams

June 23, 2015 | Posted in Dreams, Uncategorized

  This Question came from a woman named Beatrice who was concerned that her dreams were ordinary. She said that she dreamt about friends, people she knew and places she had visited. She also expressed her belief that there should not be a template in regards to the various themes in dreams. Here is my…

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