Dr Raphael Gunner

Blogs

In July 2007, I began to write my thoughts on psychology, yoga, and business. I posted them in a blog in the form of brief essays. These essays capture some of the ways in which I think about life -- the types of challenges that arise and strategies to meet them. I invite you to browse and to share your reflections.
  • Friendship
  • A Good Relationship Redefined
  • Psychology of Yoga and Yoga of Psychology
  • Choice and Necessity in Life Truly Lived
  • From Loving Perfection to Perfecting Love
  • The Hard Work of Love
  • The Meaning of Love
  • The Challenge of Love
  • You are Not Your Yoga Posture
  • Power vs Preference: A Matter of Choice
  • Further Reflections on Power vs Preference
  • Corporate Culture and the Rules of the Game
  • Rage in the Workplace: A Matter of Helplessness
  • The Importance of Healthy Relationships in Business
  • What Are You Supposed to Talk About in Therapy?
  • Pain vs. Suffering: A World of Difference
  • The Pain of Life and the Life of Pain
  • No Pain, No Gain? No Gain With Pain!
  • Starting and Stopping Therapy
  • Addictions and Protections
  • The Goal of Therapy
My blog can be accessed by clicking this link:Raphael Gunner's Blog

Video Talks

In 2012, I set out to record a series of talks on my approach to the art of living skillfully. These talks, or Psych Spots™, offer a practical guide to the search for contentment. They describe how to undo depression and anxiety, how to anticipate and deconstruct anger, how to reclaim missing parts of the self, how to achieve forgiveness, how to cultivate love, and how to maintain healthy relationships. In 2013, I recorded a second series of talks. These talks, or Psych Stops™, serve as introductions to the longer Psych Spots™. Finally, in 2020, I recorded a meditation designed to help process the feelings of helplessness evoked by life under Covid-19. Taken together these talks provide a road map to change or at least a compass by which to navigate the terrain.

Psych Stops™

Helplessness and Anger
Merger and Differentiation
Pain and Suffering
Mental Illness as Suffering
A Life of Contentment
Beyond Anxiety and Depression
Keeping It Real
A Life Well Lived

Psych Spots™

Anger and Helplessness
Minimal Conditions
Skillful Love
Pain, Suffering, and Contentment
Psychotherapy as Reclamation
The Way to Forgiveness
Meditation, Yoga, Breath, and The Body
Absolute Love
The Contours of Loneliness
No Mind No Spirit
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