Edward Mendelowitz

A life uncommonly well-lived and well-played.

Leadership as I imagine it would be typified by a special feeling for life at extreme limits. A simpatico with the strung out and frankly dispossessed.

'Global Warming' is the name of the second song Rollins elected to play with his band at the 9/11 concert. Counter-intuitively, Global Warming is a joyous expression of life.

Amid our current infatuation with mindfulness, we must guard against becoming too comfortable among the clouds.

Self-creation, the most rarified of actions and arts.

Applying the writings and philosophies of William James to addiction and Alcoholics Anonymous.

I have observed over the course of many years that humanistic psychology sets it sights more emphatically on possibility than on destiny.

Ghaemi's “On Depression: Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World” is a uniquely satisfying book by one of psychiatry's most forward-leaning representatives.

In his column, Ed Mendelowitz reminds us that viscerality and vitalness are values that fit third force notions of being-in-the-world and warns against the nullifying of aliveness in the name of prettifying human experience.

The 2014 Boston Marathon took place, like last year's, on Patriot's Day on a glorious spring day here in transcendentalist New England.

Requiems for Eugene Taylor and Joseph Roth.

A portrait of musical genius Charles Mingus, a fascinating study of diversity, integration, paradox and high art.

The human capacity for destructiveness is often referred to as humanitys dark side. In this book, prominent writers share different, sometimes opposing views on humanitys dark side and consider how these views impact their clinical practice.

Ed Mendelowitz surveys the domain of current existential-humanistic psychology, critiquing what he perceives as our ethical and imaginative lapses and eloquently pointing the way toward a vision of what is possible.

Ed Mendelowitz's column describes an American icon's existential journey in Sun Ship: The Late Recordings of John Coltrane.

The following thoughts, adapted from Ethics and Lao-Tzu and “Building the Great Wall of China,” are set down as a sort of reverie in the aftermath of the recent conference in Chicago. Many division members encountered there for the first time important new voices from East Asia.

Ed Mendelowitz brings us another edition of Humanitas

Ed Mendelowitz invites readers to participate in the fascinating journey of exploring the depths of the psyche, meaning and experience

Solarisis a work about the strange goings-on encountered by cosmonauts on a space station that hovers ominously over the ocean-planet Solaris

In this continuing column, Dr. Mendelowitz examines Ari Folman’s 2008 Israeli film Waltz with Bashir (With God on Our Side)

This monthly column on film and psychology focuses on the Tragicomedy La Strada & Soul Murder.